# Chicago Mayor Emanuel Will Not Seek Re-election **URL:** \ **Category:** Politics & Elections\ **Created:** [September 4, 2018, 5:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/chicago-mayor-emanuel-will-not-seek-re-election/820754 "2018-09-04T17:29:33Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 14\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Happy\_Lendervedder](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/happy_lendervedder/32/8488_2.png) [@Happy\_Lendervedder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Happy_Lendervedder)\ **Post date:** [September 5, 2018, 8:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/chicago-mayor-emanuel-will-not-seek-re-election/820754/21 "2018-09-05T20:43:24Z")
How quick can Carson establish residency? ---
**Author:** ![bobot](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bobot/32/21622_2.png) [@bobot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bobot)\ **Post date:** [September 5, 2018, 8:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/chicago-mayor-emanuel-will-not-seek-re-election/820754/22 "2018-09-05T20:56:17Z")
Things are looking up for McCarthy. I don’t support him, but things are now looking up for him. ---
**Author:** ![dalej42](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/67e7ee/32.png) [@dalej42](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dalej42)\ **Post date:** [September 5, 2018, 11:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/chicago-mayor-emanuel-will-not-seek-re-election/820754/23 "2018-09-05T23:29:52Z")
Lisa Madigan rules herself out > **[Attorney General Lisa Madigan says she won't run for Chicago mayor](https://www.chicagotribune.com/politics/ct-met-lisa-madigan-chicago-mayor-wont-run-20180905-story.html)** > > Attorney General Lisa Madigan says she won't run for Chicago mayor. ---
**Author:** ![pulykamell](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pulykamell/32/3166_2.png) [@pulykamell](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pulykamell)\ **Post date:** [September 6, 2018, 12:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/chicago-mayor-emanuel-will-not-seek-re-election/820754/24 "2018-09-06T00:09:21Z")
> [@bobot](#): > > Things are looking up for McCarthy. I don’t support him, but things are now looking up for him. Why no mention of Vallas? I thought he was at least as strong as McCarthy v a Rahm matchup. ---
**Author:** ![bobot](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bobot/32/21622_2.png) [@bobot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bobot)\ **Post date:** [September 6, 2018, 12:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/chicago-mayor-emanuel-will-not-seek-re-election/820754/25 "2018-09-06T00:12:22Z")
I just forsee lots of people voting for the Law And Order Lock Em Up candidate, especially with no incumbent. Again, not that I think McCarthy is right for the job, I’d like to see him take his giant cop pension and retire on the east coast somewhere. ---
**Author:** ![dalej42](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/67e7ee/32.png) [@dalej42](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dalej42)\ **Post date:** [September 7, 2018, 5:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/chicago-mayor-emanuel-will-not-seek-re-election/820754/26 "2018-09-07T17:11:23Z")
Preckwinkle is exploring the possibility [http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/local/politics/ct-met-chicago-mayors-race-toni-preckwinkle-20180907-story.html](http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/local/politics/ct-met-chicago-mayors-race-toni-preckwinkle-20180907-story.html) So is my congressman, Mike Quigley [https://www.google.com/amp/s/chicago.suntimes.com/news/us-rep-quigley-congress-may-run-mayor-chicago-2019-election-rahm-emanuel/amp/](https://www.google.com/amp/s/chicago.suntimes.com/news/us-rep-quigley-congress-may-run-mayor-chicago-2019-election-rahm-emanuel/amp/) ---
**Author:** ![dalej42](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/67e7ee/32.png) [@dalej42](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dalej42)\ **Post date:** [September 14, 2018, 4:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/chicago-mayor-emanuel-will-not-seek-re-election/820754/27 "2018-09-14T16:29:32Z")
Bill Daley is in > **[Bill Daley to run for Chicago mayor](https://abc7chicago.com/chicago-mayoral-election-bill-daley-mayor-mayors/4242739/)** > > ABC7 Chicago has learned that Bill Daley will run for mayor of Chicago. Gutierrez is out [https://www.google.com/amp/www.chicagotribune.com/news/local/politics/ct-met-chicago-mayors-race-luis-gutierrez-not-running-20180912-story,amp.html](https://www.google.com/amp/www.chicagotribune.com/news/local/politics/ct-met-chicago-mayors-race-luis-gutierrez-not-running-20180912-story,amp.html) I still don’t think Chuy Garcia will get in, not when he will have an easy congressional seat. ---
**Author:** ![dalej42](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/67e7ee/32.png) [@dalej42](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dalej42)\ **Post date:** [October 1, 2018, 6:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/chicago-mayor-emanuel-will-not-seek-re-election/820754/28 "2018-10-01T18:18:14Z")
Chuy Garcia is out. > **[Jesus 'Chuy' Garcia won't run for Chicago mayor](https://www.chicagotribune.com/politics/ct-met-jesus-chuy-garcia-no-mayoral-campaign-20181001-story.html)** > > Jesus "Chuy" Garcia won't run for Chicago mayor, he said Monday. Smart move, he’s got an easy win for Congress and can have the seat as long as he likes. Meanwhile, I’m sure he knows that a lot of his support in the last mayoral election was ‘Not Rahm’ rather than actual support for him. ---
**Author:** ![Urbanredneck](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/ea5d25/32.png) [@Urbanredneck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Urbanredneck)\ **Post date:** [October 2, 2018, 7:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/chicago-mayor-emanuel-will-not-seek-re-election/820754/29 "2018-10-02T19:57:07Z")
i generally dont like political families but I have to it does seem Chicago always does better with a Daley. ---
**Author:** ![kenobi\_65](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kenobi_65/32/13178_2.png) [@kenobi\_65](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kenobi_65)\ **Post date:** [October 2, 2018, 8:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/chicago-mayor-emanuel-will-not-seek-re-election/820754/30 "2018-10-02T20:09:38Z")
> [@Urbanredneck](#): > > i generally dont like political families but I have to it does seem Chicago always does better with a Daley. I moved to the Chicago area just before Richard M. Daley (the son) became mayor in 1989. I think that he did a lot of things that were intended to make Chicago feel like a more welcoming, inviting city: Millennium Park, kicking Meigs Field off of parkland on the lakeshore, and lots of smaller beautification projects (e.g., planters in the middle of boulevards, wrought-iron fences, upgraded bus shelters, etc.). However, from a financial standpoint, I think that he did a lot of fiddling while Rome was starting to burn. Much like the county and the state, he pissed away a lot of money on his pet projects, while deferring much-needed infrastructure repairs, and under-funding the city’s pension obligations. He sold off control of city assets (e.g., parking meters, the Skyway) on long-term leases with lump sump payments, the cash from which was spent almost immediately. Frankly, when he left office, it seemed to me like he was getting out just before things turned very ugly. Whatever one may think of Emanuel’s performance as mayor of Chicago, he came into office inheriting an enormous, intractable financial crisis, which was entirely the doing of the outgoing Daley administration. ---
**Author:** ![Tim\_R.Mortiss](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tim_r.mortiss/32/142_2.png) [@Tim\_R.Mortiss](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tim_R.Mortiss)\ **Post date:** [October 5, 2018, 1:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/chicago-mayor-emanuel-will-not-seek-re-election/820754/31 "2018-10-05T01:30:31Z")
> [@Urbanredneck](#): > > i generally dont like political families but I have to it does seem Chicago always does better with a Daley. I don’t know if you are being facetious or not, but I agree with this statement. In the sixty years that I have lived in and around Chicago, it has always thrived the best under Daley administrations. I’ll be voting for Bill. If he lasts that long. ---
**Author:** ![AlsoNamedBort](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/alsonamedbort/32/3213_2.png) [@AlsoNamedBort](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AlsoNamedBort)\ **Post date:** [November 29, 2018, 9:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/chicago-mayor-emanuel-will-not-seek-re-election/820754/32 "2018-11-29T21:52:58Z")
The field is set, at least for the upper limit. Now comes the fun process of challenging every petition signature to winnow the field. But this is still gonna be a huge ballot and will probably go to a runoff: Gery Chico, former chair of the Illinois State Board of Education and candidate for mayor in 2011 Conrien Hykes Clark Dorothy A. Brown Cook, Clerk of the Circuit Court of Cook County and candidate for mayor in 2007 Catherine Brown D’Tycoon, activist William M. Daley, former White House Chief of Staff and former U.S. Secretary of Commerce, candidate for Governor in 2014, member of the Daley family (son of former mayor Richard J. Daley and brother of former mayor Richard M. Daley) Amara Enyia, community activist, organizer, attorney and policy consultant, candidate for mayor in 2015 Robert Fioretti, former Chicago City Alderman and candidate for mayor in 2015 La Shawn K. Ford, state representative Ja’Mal Green, executive director of the Majostee Allstars Community Center Neal Sales-Griffin, professor at the Northwestern University’s Farley Center for Entrepreneurship and Innovation Jerry Joyce, attorney and son of former Alderman Jeremiah E. Joyce John Kozlar, candidate for alderman in Chicago’s 11th ward in 2011 and 2015 Lori Lightfoot, former president of the Chicago Police Board Sandra L. Mallory, candidate for alderman in Chicago’s 15th ward in 2015 Richard Mayers, congressional candidate in 2016; running also for city clerk and city treasurer Garry McCarthy, former Superintendent of the Chicago Police Department Susana Mendoza, Illinois Comptroller Toni Preckwinkle, president of the Cook County Board of Commissioners Paul Vallas, former chief executive officer of Chicago Public Schools Roger L. Washington, police officer, candidate for alderman in Chicago’s 24th ward in 2015 Willie Wilson, businessman, candidate for mayor in 2015 and candidate for President in 2016 ---
**Author:** ![Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7cd45c/32.png) [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)\ **Post date:** [January 4, 2019, 4:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/chicago-mayor-emanuel-will-not-seek-re-election/820754/33 "2019-01-04T16:54:05Z")
> [@dalej42](#): > > Nope. Chuy Garcia was an unfunny clown that basically got the ‘Not Rahm’ votes in 2015. He’s running for Congress and will win. Indeed he did, and was sworn in yesterday: [Chuy García - Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jes%C3%BAs_%22Chuy%22_Garc%C3%ADa) ---
**Author:** ![John\_Bredin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/96bed5/32.png) [@John\_Bredin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/John_Bredin)\ **Post date:** [January 16, 2019, 4:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/chicago-mayor-emanuel-will-not-seek-re-election/820754/34 "2019-01-16T16:52:19Z")
In the absence of Emmanuel, the role of boogeyman in tonight’s farce will be played by Downtown, also known as the Loop. :rolleyes: Every single damn television ad I’ve seen for a mayoral candidate has mentioned downtown or the Loop sneeringly. Remind me what neighborhoods have multinational corporations moving in from the suburbs? Remind me what neighborhoods have population growth when the meme is that people are leaving the city in droves? IMHO, trying to improve the city at the expense of downtown would backfire horribly. The McDonaldses of the world don’t have to move to the West Loop or River North if you treat them as the goose that lays golden eggs.\* The twenty-somethings and empty-nesters moving into the South and West Loop, and the actual Loop, maybe will find some Metra-served walkable suburban downtown more friendly if your strategy for improving policing in outer neighborhoods is to pull cops from the downtown neighborhoods. \*Should business pay its fair share? Yes. But with the income tax at the national and state level. It’s too damn easy for a business that wants its offices or headquarters somewhere in metropolitan Chicago to put it … somewhere in metropolitan Chicago. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/chicago-mayor-emanuel-will-not-seek-re-election/820754.md?page=1)