Former Chicago Inspector General – and one-time Democratic U.S. Senate candidate – David Hoffman is considering a run for mayor.
“I am thinking about it,” Hoffman, who lost to Alexi Giannoulias in the Senate primary, told the Chicago News Cooperative Tuesday.
“I have been getting a lot of requests to run from people, and it is extremely flattering and I am thinking about it,” Hoffman told the Chicago News Cooperative. “But the main thing is whether it is the right time for us. We have a little boy at home who just turned three and having just come off this [U.S. Senate] campaign, there are lots of other things to think about in terms of the race, but things I have been focusing on are personal.”
As inspector general, Hoffman targeted corruption by a long list of politically connected city employees and contractors and issued a scathing report last year questioning the unpopular, $1.15 billion lease of the city’s parking meters.
A former federal prosecutor, Hoffman is a 1984 graduate of New Trier High School and now lives in the city’s 32nd Ward.
He said he was aware of a Chicago Sun-Times report that his name was included in a poll White House Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel recently commissioned.
“I read he put me on the list and I saw who the other names were,” Hoffman said when asked to comment. “I noticed it.” He declined to elaborate further.
Hoffman said he has not put a deadline on his decision but said he would have to make one “soon.”