Right place. Right time. Wrong office.  Later: right office.
That aptly describes the game plan of former Chicago Inspector General David Hoffman, who’s really running for mayor in 2011, but is taking a brief detour to seek the Democratic nomination for U.S. Senator in 2010.
Hoffman’s campaign rationale is to run strongly in 2010, which will set him up to take out Mayor Daley in 2011 in a one-on-one contest. But his strategy depends on the answers to these questions: How much more thievery, stupidity, corruption, convictions, scandals, trials and arrogance will …

The race for President Obama’s former senate seat suddenly got interesting.
Chris, the low-profile Kennedy, decided not to enter the Democratic primary. That made it look like a cinch for State Treasurer Alexi Giannoulias, whose only serious opposition would then be Cheryle Jackson, head of the Chicago Urban League, who—as former spokesperson for former governor Rod Blagojevich—wears the Scarlet B on her forehead.
All of a sudden, in jumps David Hoffman, Chicago’s inspector general, who spent the past four years shining lights on rats’ nests of corruption in city government—much to the …