“I think Mayor Emanuel doesn’t want to be a caretaker mayor, which is why he stepped aside and let Chicagoans decide who their next mayor is going to be. To be mayor of a city like Chicago, you need to have endless energy, and you’ve met someone who might have energy equal to me, that’s the mayor,” Mendoza said. “We’ve seen that over the last few years, he himself will tell you he doesn’t think he can do another five years at the level of energy that you need to really run the city effectively.”