The
resignation letter that the 7th Ward alderman sent last week to
Mayor Rahm Emanuel (even though it should have gone to the clerk instead)
saying she quit was fairly forgettable.
PERSONALLY,
THE REASON I didn’t feel compelled to post commentary about the alderman any
sooner than this is that I always felt her resignation was inevitable.
Once
her husband, the former Congressman Jesse Jackson, Jr., gave up his post in
November, it was just a matter of time before Sandi left office.
For
she never really developed any sense of being a political person in her own
right. Her existence in the City Council was meant to bolster the notion that
her husband was a political powerbroker on the South Side and into the
surrounding suburbs.
After
all, she was his voice in the entity that many Chicago political types think is
the be-all and end-all of government.
I
NEVER THOUGHT she’d try to run to succeed her husband in Congress. If she had,
it would have just brought back to the forefront all the political problems
that ultimately made Jesse, Jr., think he was better off getting out of the
Capitol Hill scene.
I
don’t think we’ll see an elected official from the greater Jackson family in
the near future. Although I also think the people who are going about these
days spouting trash talk about the Jacksons being finished are those who are
letting their own personal hang-ups overcome their common sense. They might
wish the Jacksons are finished!
But
it has me wondering if they’re going to focus on the business end in future
years. Despite early struggles, they're making themselves into the executives who have the money that gets
donated to politicians – thereby giving them influence over just what actions those
politicos take with their roll call votes.
Somehow,
I think that has the Rev. Jesse Jackson all aglow – considering that he was the
guy who was offered nothing more than a toll-collector’s job when he first came
to Chicago and tried to get into politics.
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