Former Clinton Commerce Secretary Bill Daley, brother of Chicago Mayor Richard M. Daley, has decided that he is not running for the Illinois Senate seat currently held by Roland Burris and formerly held by Barack Obama.
It had been reported a month and a half ago that Daley was likely to run, but he has now changed his mind. “I was gung-ho, and hired pollsters and talked to fund-raisers and planned to make an announcement in mid-April,” he told the Chicago Sun-Times. “But I’m getting remarried in June and decided I want to take a new tack in my life.”
This appears to leave the Democratic field for now to state Treasurer Alexi Giannoulias, who has raised over $1 million — and perhaps Roland Burris, who thus far has only raised less than $1,000, and has not made a decision yet.
