I think Rahm had been planning on using the Mayor’s office as a stepping-stone to higher things...not realizing that, as any good Chicago history class would have told him, being the mayor has long been a career dead-end, even under good circumstances.
Once in, I think he realized that Daley had left him a political and fiscal sh*t-sandwich, and was looking for either an economic miracle or some other office outside the city he could jump to, before Daley’s time bomb caught up with him.
Instead, he gets to go out as Chicago’s own Lyndon Johnson.
“Instead, he gets to go out as Chicago’s own Lyndon Johnson.”
Zat mean he now owns “ BALLOT BOX 13 “ ??...LOL