Je vous laisse le lien pour un article du Chicago Trinue de ce matin qui souligne la victoire de l'ancien Chief of staff d'Obama. Véritable bête politique, Emanuel a travaillé pour l'administration Clinton, il a été élu à la Chambre des représentants et il dispose de tout un réseau de donateurs. Son style est habituellement "musclé" (le mot fuck est devenu un tic nerveux...)et il ne se gêne pas pour bousculer les gens sur son passage. On peut parier qu'il va adoucir son style maintenant qu'il est à l'avant-scène. Ses fonctions précédentes exigeaient de lui une certaine férocité, ce rôle de chien de garde, il le laissera maintenant à d'autres... Voici donc Rahmbo (son surnom)dans la ville d'Al Capone!
"Chicago, meet your new boss:
The Rahmfather.
You can call him by his formal title, Mayor-elect Rahm Emanuel. You can call him the Rahminator.
Or you might join the Daley brothers in rhythmic clapping in the bowels of Chicago's political coliseum, as President Barack Obama beats syncopated time, shouting the chorus of hope and change:
"Rahmulus! Rahmulus! Rahmulus!"
Or not.
Yet no matter what you call him, no matter what you think of him, by winning Tuesday's election without a messy runoff, Rahm Emanuel is boss of Chicago.
He'll govern that way. It's what was sold. It's what is expected. The thing is, he's smarter than the old boss, more talented, skillful, adept, more focused.
If one of Rahm's relatives ever receives $70 million in City Hall pension funds to invest in a real estate deal, he won't be able to say that he didn't know what was going on.
No one would believe him.
Rahm will begin making moves almost immediately, what with the city's finances in disastrous shape. And he will change minds.
This is no game. And becoming mayor of Chicago isn't his last stop. It's one of his first. Rahm's last stop might just be back in the White House, but not as another chief of staff. Don't think it hasn't crossed his mind.
The first thing he'll do is reorganize the Chicago City Council. Yes, the council is technically a legislative body, and Emanuel will be chief executive, and civics teachers would tell you that one branch of government is supposed to serve as a check on the ambitions of the other.
But the city wanted a strongman and it got one. Over the past 20 years, Daley decimated what remained of the ward organizations and installed his own patronage armies. Now there are only a few truly talented aldermen left in the council.
The North Side bosses will ascend. Look for Ald. Patrick O'Connor, 40th, and former state Sen. James DeLeo, D-How You Doin?, to flex their muscle under a Mayor Emanuel.
The new mayor may take a trophy head or two, perhaps that of Ald. Ed Burke, 14th, and put that on his wall, offering it up to friendly pundits as evidence of change.
What Tuesday's victory prevents is outside examination of the City Hall books. That lack of scrutiny is what Mayor Richard Daley wanted, after two decades of spending Chicago into near-bankruptcy with all that cronyism and favoritism.
Emanuel's victory completes an interesting switcheroo, with Rich Daley announcing his retirement, Rahm stepping down as White House chief of staff, and mayoral brother Billy Daley stepping into Rahm's old job.
Some might call it cynical. But with a 2012 presidential re-election campaign under way, others might call it smart politics the Chicago Way."
http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/columnists/ct-met-kass-0223-20110223,0,2317812.column
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