"A lot of people are encouraging me to do that. Politics is not in my DNA. I'm not very good at that. As you guys know, I'm very straightforward," McCarthy said. "But I can tell you this: I would support anybody who would start thinking about performance-based government rather than politics, because that's what we need in Chicago. There's no measurements. There's nobody holding anybody accountable. It's all about politics and communication strategy, and I'm sorry, that just doesn't work to get things done in a big city."