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Emanuel, Chicago mayor? Sally Quinn
White House says Emanuel '100 percent' focused on his current job.

Posted January 5, 2010 11:15 AM
by Mark Silva

Rahm Emanuel, the irrepressible White House chief of staff and former congressman from Chicago responsible for that "thumpin''' that Republicans took in the House elections of 2006, the one who might have liked to be speaker of the House some day, could have other aspirations back home.

So says Sally Quinn, the veteran columnist of the Washington Post. Other, more knowledgeable handicappers of the Chicago political scene doubt this scenario seriously.



The White House, for its part, maintains that Emanuel is "100 percent focused on the job at hand - serving President Obama as his Chief of Staff.''

Quinn mentioned the Chicago mayoral option today, deep within a look at recent machinations within the Obama White House, where a new general counsel, Bob Bauer, has taken office, following Emanuel's clash with the past counsel, Greg Craig, and where three uninvited guests showed up at a State Dinner.

more:
http://www.swamppolitics.com/news/politics/blog/2010/01/emanuel_chicago_mayor_sally_qu.html

Anything to get him out of the white house...