Emanuel, who often complains about the financial mess he inherited when he took office in 2011, then seemingly took a shot at his predecessor, Mayor Richard M. Daley, while continuing his policy of not mentioning Daley by name: “Now, to all of you, do you know of any plan I got left on any of the problems I got left with? Come on, be on the level. The work on addressing all this won’t be under my watch. I’m going to develop a plan, feasibility, probability. I’m going to have the work done, and then I’m going to sa,y ‘Here’s what I think is the best action.’ That was not left on any other subject.”