Rumor Gaining Traction

Daley pulls the strings. Everyone else just dances for the man:

• Dear SCC,
  I am hearing rumblings from the 5th floor that our Mayor is looking into replacing Sup. Weiss with either Little Tommy Byrne or James Maurer. Weiss would slide over to Homeland Security Director for the Olympic 2016 dream. The new Superintendent position would be considered at first an interim position (as to not embarrass the mayor) and then be phased into full time. Both Byrne and Maurer are top candidates for 2 reasons. One, they are the mayors guys and two as a morale booster to the Department which the mayor has identified as "severely problematic". The strategy "spinning the story to the public to believe that Weiss would be great in this new position and that his(the Mayor) choice Weiss did a great job at restructuring the Police Department with firings and dumps which will begin next Thursday according to a 5th floor insider". This also will coincide with balancing the budget and merging Units within the department and balance the drastic shortage of manpower by closing Districts and rezoning beats.

This ties together a bunch of stuff that's been appearing on and off in the comments for about 5 weeks now, numerous rumors coming out of Administrative units and a few e-mails we've been getting from downtown. So either someone has been putting together a fantastic story and leaking it in pieces from twenty or thirty different sources or changes are afoot and a lot of people are starting to put the pieces together.

Even D-Day wasn't a complete secret from anyone who paid attention.

UPDATE: We think the Tommy Byrne referenced is the one who isn't retired.

UPDATE: Ok, we have no clue which Tommy Byrne is referenced. Some claim one, some the other and both have their supporters and detractors. Just like Maurer does. Just like any choice would.