This A$$hole?

Mary Ann Ahern has a rumor:

• Sources are telling me prominent members in Chicago labor, business and civic community are actively trying to recruit IL Secretary of State Alexi Giannoulias to run for Mayor of Chicago - February ‘27

Giannoulias? This goof is a consummate Machine insider since the days of Shortshanks and Sparklefarts. Not only that, his family bank (Broadway Bank) was involved in some questionable (shady) loans back early 2000s and ended up costing taxpayers nearly $400 million in FDIC payouts.

Just what an already bankrupt Chicago needs!

(the other rumor is that he's running for Turban Durbin's Senate seat shortly.)