Stump Connolly Captures A Man Who Kissed His Wife In Chicago Running For Mayor

When Chuy Garcia forced a mayoral runoff with Rahm Emanuel, one of the first things I wondered was whether this meant Stump Connolly would stay out in the field for six weeks longer.

“Stump Connolly” is the nom de precinct of Scott Jacobs, whom I’ve known since we were reporters at the Sun-Times. Full disclosure—we once wrote a play together. He wrote a scene; I wrote the next scene; audiences remarked that they seemed to be watching two different plays—though both had something to do with Ben Hecht and Charles MacArthur. After a brief workshop production at a theater that no longer exists, Jacobs rewrote the whole play his way and I rewrote it mine. Neither version has intrigued producers.

Everything’s on Gapers Block. On Monday Jacobs posted his experience covering last week’s election night at Garcia and Emanuel headquarters. (He was with Chuy; Kolak, of Scrappers Film Group, handled Rahm’s HQ for him.) Later in the week he’ll put up his day with the mayor, which is, by the way, the first serious time he’s had with Emanuel. “It’s a pretty tightly controlled campaign,” Jacobs says.

But he does visit the Garcia household and we see Chuy kissing his wife.