'CHICAGO SUN-TIMES' OFFERS FRONT PAGE PROFILE ON RAHM EMANUEL'S GAY ADVISER DAVID SPIELFOGEL
Thursday's Chicago Sun-Times offered a laudatory front page profile of Mayor Rahm Emanuel's top adviser David Spielfogel:
Spielfogel is not only the mayor’s intellectual match — without the ego to go with it — he’s the brains and execution behind virtually every one of the mayor’s policy initiatives, from ethics reform and ride-sharing to petcoke and the drive to raise $50 million over five years for jobs, mentoring and recreation programs for at-risk kids.
Emanuel rarely makes a move without consulting him.
“Since David joined my campaign in its first few weeks, he’s helped me to shape city hall’s agenda on every major priority. Our first discussion in 2010 was about a range of ways to break from the past and move this city forward . . . Whether on the campaign, or running my transition team, or now in city hall, I have come to value David’s opinions, insight, advice and focus,” Emanuel said via e-mail.
Spielfogel’s father, Keith, said about his son: “If I call, he doesn’t answer. If the mayor calls, he answers.”
Spielfogel also happens to be gay and Emanuel performed his civil union in 2011 at City Hall:
David Spielfogel is the most influential of a large number of openly gay employees in the Emanuel administration.
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