Reader Roz Smith, a former Chicagoan now living in North Carolina, begs to differ with Bruce Thompson's take on Mayor Daley of Chicago:

Little Richie may well be part of the Democrats problem.
 
His father maintained a modest brick bungalow in ethnic Bridgeport and eschewed, at least in public, the trappings of the elite. 
 
The son moved into an upscale lakefront townhouse complex and he and his wife seem right at home with the Pritzkers, the Manilows and the other East Lake Shore Drive liberal high rollers and their $2,500 a ticket artsy fartsy charitable events.