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This year, though, the mayor is lending his name to several campaigns. Daley endorsed Barack Obama for president more than a year ago, and the other day he even worked the phones on Obama’s behalf. But last month he waded into a much-lower-profile county race by backing 28th Ward alderman Ed Smith, a frequent City Council foe, for Cook County Recorder of Deeds.
Now the mayor’s tapped another candidate. Earlier today Will Burns, a candidate for state rep in the 26th district, announced that he’d won Daley’s endorsement. Burns, a former aide to state senate president Emil Jones, said he sat down with the mayor in December to tell him about his goals of working on gun control, education funding reform, and health care coverage, and Daley agreed to back him. (A call to the mayor’s press office wasn’t returned.)
