Daley Announces Re-Election Bid

Well, not precisely, but what else could this mean?

• Who ever heard of an open casting call for a $110,556-a-year government job in Chicago -- a city whose Democratic ward bosses famously said, "We don't want nobody nobody sent"?

  But that's precisely what Mayor Daley is doing before choosing new aldermen in the 1st and 29th Wards. After making 33 aldermanic appointments, most by following the predecessor's recommendation, he's posting the equivalent of a "Help Wanted" ad on the Internet.

  Interested candidates are invited to send a cover letter to Room 406 at City Hall by Friday with an attached resume and three letters of recommendation from community leaders, business types and area residents.

So this, along with Shortshanks' transparent attempt to have the Inspector General investigate aldercreatures, is positioning Daley in the hilarious position of running as a reformer against the corruption he has aided and abetted for the past quarter century! Only in Chicago.