No worries, TCL, and I’m glad to have provided church with some amusement as well. It was a non-partisan dig, of as little substance as a will o’ the wisp.
In truth, I know nothing of this Daley boy, but my unserstanding is that his brother Little Richie has been both popular and successful during his tenure as Da Mare. Being from (downstate) Illinois, I’ve got some close up knowledge of the state’s Democratic Machine, but the Dems (in Illinois or elsewhere) hardly have a monopoly on machine politics. Mike Royko, who was just about my favorite newspaper columnist ever, may have had no great love for Daley Sr., but I don’t remember him ever saying anything good about the Republican opposition (as a class; he may have liked some of them individually).
No worries, TCL, and I’m glad to have provided church with some amusement as well. It was a non-partisan dig, of as little substance as a will o’ the wisp.
In truth, I know nothing of this Daley boy, but my unserstanding is that his brother Little Richie has been both popular and successful during his tenure as Da Mare. Being from (downstate) Illinois, I’ve got some close up knowledge of the state’s Democratic Machine, but the Dems (in Illinois or elsewhere) hardly have a monopoly on machine politics. Mike Royko, who was just about my favorite newspaper columnist ever, may have had no great love for Daley Sr., but I don’t remember him ever saying anything good about the Republican opposition (as a class; he may have liked some of them individually).