“Daley sucks,” chant Chicago cops. Just one of 365 bad days for da mayor.
Fran Spielman, the Sun-Times city hall reporter, sums up a bad year for Chicago’s mayor. How many more?
The Daley shuffle continued with the appointment of CTA President Ron Huberman to replace Arne Duncan to head the city’s schools. Before departing to become President Obama’s secretary of education, Duncan had recommended his chief education officer, Barbara Eason-Watkins, as his replacement. Daley ignored the advice and picked Huberman, who had endeared himself to the mayor as the City Hall chief of staff who cleaned house after the Hired Truck and city hiring scandals.
The City Hall version of musical chairs also shifted Aviation Commissioner Richard Rodriguez to the CTA. Huberman is an education neophyte. Rodriguez has no background in mass transit. Both moves exposed how thin the mayor’s bench of trusted advisers had become.
