"I saw kind of a Washington, D.C., political approach kind of descend upon Chicago. … You postpone decision-making, you kick the can down the road, so to speak, you avoid making controversial decisions. So much of what you decide is determined by how you're going to raise your next tens of millions of dollars in fundraising," Vallas said of Emanuel's time running City Hall since 2011. "It's all driven by political survival and political expediency, so there is no long-term planning. There's no attempt to really make decisions that put you at risk, because everything is subordinated to the political process, and everything is subordinated to the political objective, which is to maintain survival."