If reawakening the Daley dynasty gives you pause, fair enough. It gives us pause, too. Richard I and Richard II served as mayor for more than two decades apiece. Find us a Chicagoan who doesn’t have strong opinions about those men and their reigns. In talking with voters we’ve heard everything from anger to admiration to jealousy. We aren’t nostalgic for old days and old ways. None of us is searching for those mayors, and in 2019, neither of them is on the ballot. Instead all of us are seeking the best mayor for the next four years. That process would be less freighted with controversial history if Bill Daley’s name were Bill Doe.