I have no idea what Rahm does or doesn't know
about urban policy, but I think the press tends to see the chief qualification of a local chief executive as being somebody who can go in there and bust the right heads and diminish the power of entrenched interests. As a resident of my particular urban hellhole I won't say there's nothing to this particular qualification, as there are in fact a lot of entrenched interests who are a drain on things, but it isn't the only qualification.
