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- Chuy Garcia fielded questions about his son in the final debate.
Journalists sometimes regret the questions they ask, but not very much. It’s the questions they don’t ask—or ask clumsily—that can bug them for years. Phil Ponce didn’t apologize for the series of questions he asked Chuy Garcia about his wayward son during Tuesday’s mayoral debate, though upon further reflection he told John Kass that one question “was off the mark.”
Garcia replied that he wasn’t the one who hooked his son up with Mayer Brown, and that at the time he wasn’t even on the Cook County Board. He didn’t see a conflict of interest. The question was a fair one and Garcia came away from it smelling like a rose.
It’s not my place to take sides here, but if, next time this comes up, Garcia points out that during Emanuel’s own years learning the executive ropes, on the White House staffs of President Clinton and President Obama, the U.S. ran up deficits totaling approximately $3.3 trillion, reporters won’t be ungrateful for this perspective.
