Here Comes the Sheriff - Pandering Pussy Tom Dart once again ponders a run for mayor of Chicago

My last talk with Cook County Sheriff Tom Dart was in December 2011, two months after he ended his mayoral bid just when it seemed to be gaining traction. The father of five young children—a firstborn son and four daughters to follow, all neatly spaced two years apart—told me at the time that he couldn’t figure out how to be, simultaneously, the father he wanted to be and the mayor of a big, messy city.

Many viewed Dart as the one Chicago guy—a lifelong South Sider (South Shore, Beverly, now Mount Greenwood)—who could win against the force of energy that was Rahm Emanuel. Dart had hired the smart and nationally recognized political strategist Joe Trippi—he ran Howard Dean’s 2004 fight for the nomination—to manage his run. Dart’s wife, Patricia, from Central Illinois and a former policy adviser to Mike Madigan, was all in. But it was not to be, and Dart even admitted to the Tribune at the time, “I’m disappointing people.”

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