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Related: About this forumBill Daley Returns to Chicago
By Lisa Balde
| Friday, Jan 27, 2012 | Updated 11:08 PM CST
Bill Daley reportedly celebrated his last day at the White House Friday with a mini-Taste of Chicago.
The former White House chief of staff flew in hometown eats for a lunchtime surprise party for staffers, Daley told the Sun-Times' Michael Sneed. The spread included Lou Malnatis pizza, Garrett Popcorn and Elis Cheesecake.
Daley, the chief of staff successor to Rahm Emanuel, stepped down earlier this month to spend more time with family. Budget director Jack Lew leads the West Wing staff in his place.
Daley submitted his resignation to the president in a private meeting with Obama in the Oval Office. Obama said Daley told him it was time to return to "our beloved hometown, Chicago."
Source: http://www.nbcchicago.com/blogs/ward-room/Bill-Daley-Last-Day-Chicago-Pizza-138206784.html#ixzz1kjHOvBgA
| Friday, Jan 27, 2012 | Updated 11:08 PM CST
Bill Daley reportedly celebrated his last day at the White House Friday with a mini-Taste of Chicago.
The former White House chief of staff flew in hometown eats for a lunchtime surprise party for staffers, Daley told the Sun-Times' Michael Sneed. The spread included Lou Malnatis pizza, Garrett Popcorn and Elis Cheesecake.
Daley, the chief of staff successor to Rahm Emanuel, stepped down earlier this month to spend more time with family. Budget director Jack Lew leads the West Wing staff in his place.
Daley submitted his resignation to the president in a private meeting with Obama in the Oval Office. Obama said Daley told him it was time to return to "our beloved hometown, Chicago."
Source: http://www.nbcchicago.com/blogs/ward-room/Bill-Daley-Last-Day-Chicago-Pizza-138206784.html#ixzz1kjHOvBgA
Why do you think Daley resigned? You gotta wonder what that conversation was like...
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Bill Daley Returns to Chicago (Original Post)
ellisonz
Jan 2012
OP
DCKit
(18,541 posts)1. But not in handcuffs. BOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!! nt
Ruby the Liberal
(26,219 posts)2. How utterly tonedeaf.
Flew in lunch?
Good grief.
ellisonz
(27,711 posts)3. I think that about...
...sums up Bill Daley's year in the White House. It took them until December to stand up to the Republicans on a whole host of issues. One thing you have to give Rahm credit for, is that he would have been busting heads if the GOP pulled some of the crap that they did this last year. IMHO good riddance to Bill Daley...tone deaf to the max.
stockholmer
(3,751 posts)4. da boys were out in full force to greet da boss
kysrsoze
(6,023 posts)5. I'm glad that do-nothing is out of the White House
How much more impotent can one be?
I'm from Chicago, and I am NO FAN of either Daley brother.
Owlet
(1,248 posts)6. One of Obama's more puzzling appointments (EOM)
frazzled
(18,402 posts)7. He was Howard Dean's fave choice for the job
and came with huge endorsements from John Kerry and Al Gore.
Former DNC chairman and former Vermont Gov. Howard Dean said Wednesday that William Daley would be a "huge plus" for the Obama administration if he is tapped to be the president's new chief of staff.
Dean praised Daley as someone "who knows Washington, but he also is not of Washington." At the same time, the former presidential candidate excoriated Obama's senior staff.
http://thehill.com/blogs/blog-briefing-room/news/136061-howard-dean-endorses-daley-for-chief-of-staff-says-adult-needed-in-administration
Dean praised Daley as someone "who knows Washington, but he also is not of Washington." At the same time, the former presidential candidate excoriated Obama's senior staff.
http://thehill.com/blogs/blog-briefing-room/news/136061-howard-dean-endorses-daley-for-chief-of-staff-says-adult-needed-in-administration
Goes to show you what those guys know.