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And earlier this week he reportedly pulled aside one of the aldermen and warned him that his political career would suffer as a result. Alderman Howard Brookins Jr., alderman of the 21st Ward, said the mayor told him that he may blow his chance to win the Democratic primary for Cook County state’s attorney if he continued to push for publicizing the cop list. “The mayor told me I shouldn’t have signed on to the resolution,” Brookins said. “He said it wouldn’t go over well in the ‘ethnic community.’”
Still, even some Daley allies who would never utter a critical word about the police in public are anxious for the mayor to settle on a long-term leader for the department. While one alderman, the Ninth Ward’s Anthony Beale, publicly called for interim superintendent Dana Starks to get the permanent job during budget hearings last week, most others were effusive in praising the department and silent about Starks himself.
