Posted by Rick Pearson at 9:19 a.m. CDT
President Bush comes to Chicago on Thursday night -- his 60th birthday -- and he's celebrating at a dinner with Mayor Richard Daley.
The White House says the president will be dining with the mayor and "opinion leaders." The dinner is a prelude to Bush's appearance at a fundraisier luncheon Friday for Republican candidate for governor Judy Baar Topinka.
(Apparently things have changed, considering that three months ago Topinka stood by as an aide said the campaign would like the not-so-popular president to raise money in the governor's race only "late at night, in an undisclosed location.")
Bush's appearance with Daley is interesting given that City Hall is under fire and facing a jury verdict on federal corruption charges against one of Daley's former top patronage deputies.
The prosecutor in the City Hall case, of course, is Patrick Fitzgerald, who conducted the leak investigation of CIA operative Valerie Plame that included Bush's political architect, Karl Rove.
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Comments
Typo here: JBT is only the Republican candidate for governor.
Posted by: Rick | July 6, 2006 11:16 AM
Since I do not trust Bush, his endorsement of Daley is suspect. What gall to say the mayor in the midst of criminal investigations of his administration is a "great leader".
The president is an idiot and the mayor is a great leader over a political machine that is holding this town in a mafia-style criminal enterprise.
Posted by: gigi | July 8, 2006 9:03 AM