- Brian Jackson/Sun-Times Media
- Rahm Emanuel: The authority on contracts.
After reading the Tribune‘s postelection editorial in which they expressed their orgasmic joy over Bruce Rauner’s gubernatorial victory—I believe they said the earth moved—I made one of my great declarations.
You’re welcome, Tribsters.
But what’s interested me most at the moment is Mayor Emanuel’s response.
So how would the mayor react to the Tribune‘s stories? Would he thunder against this outrageous assault on the public purse? Would he call for heads to roll? Would he launch an investigation? Would he march into investment houses and demand that the bankers pay back the $100 million, like he used to march into fire stations—backed by body guards, of course—and demand that firefighters give up their pensions?
When pressed about the Gillers/Grotto revelations, Mayor Emanuel did what he usually does at such moments—he blamed it on Mayor Daley, without mentioning him by name, naturally.
But pension contracts with firefighters, teachers, and cops are drawn in sand. And can be washed away with every changing tide.
