Rahm: I Want To Be Mayor Of Chicago
White House Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel told PBS that he would like to eventually run for Mayor of Chicago. “I hope Mayor [Richard] Daley seeks re-election. I will work and support him if he seeks re-election,” said Emanuel. “But if Mayor Daley doesn’t, one day I would like to run for mayor of the city of Chicago. That’s always been an aspiration of mine, even when I was in the House of Representatives.”
Obama’s Day Ahead
President Obama will depart from Los Angeles, California, at 11:40 a.m. ET. He will arrive at Andrews Air Force Base at 4:05 p.m. ET, and at the White House at 4:20 p.m. ET.
Biden’s Day Ahead
Vice President Biden will speak at 11:45 a.m. ET this morning, at the Brookings Institution’s Hamilton Project forum, “From Recession to Recovery to Renewal.” At 1:30 p.m. ET, he will make an announcement about Title IX at George Washington University, joined by Secretary of Education Arne Duncan and Senior White House Adviser Valerie Jarrett.
Obama: Boxer Could Lose If Dems Don’t Work Hard
Speaking at the fundraiser last night for Sen. Barbara Boxer (D-CA), President Obama warned that even this third-term Democrat from a Dem-leaning state could potentially lose, if Democrats don’t work hard. “I don’t want anyone here taking this for granted,” said Obama. “Unless she’s got that support she might not win this thing, and I don’t think that’s an acceptable outcome. So I want everyone to work hard.”
DeMint On Pushing The GOP Right: ‘Take The Message To The Outside’
The Wall Street Journal reports on the split between Sen. John Cornyn (R-TX) and Sen. Jim DeMint (R-SC), over supporting moderate or hard-line conservative Senate candidates. DeMint credits the GOP’s 2006 defeats for his perspective. “It totally changed my M.O.,” DeMint said. “I realized I wasn’t going to change many minds who were already there, that the only opportunity was, instead of trying to convince my colleagues, to try to take the message to the outside.”
Gutierrez To Dems: Push Immigration Reform, Or I’ll Tell Latino Voters To STay Home
The Hill reports that Rep. Luis Gutierrez (D-IL) is threatening t tell Latino voters to stay home this fall, if the Democratic Party does not act to pass comprehensive immigration reform. “We can stay home,” Gutierrez said in an interview with paper. “We can say, ‘You know what? There is a third option: We can refuse to participate.'”
GOP Has-Beens From 2006 Defeats Seek Comebacks
The Associated Press profiles the large number of Republicans who lost re-election in 2006, and are now running for office again. Examples include: former Rep. Rob Simmons (R-CT), who is running for Senate; former Rep. J.D. Hayworth (R-AZ), who is running for Senate; former Rep. Charlie Bass (R-NH), who is seeking his former House seat; and former Sen. Mike DeWine (R-OH), who is running for state Attorney General.
