In a surprise to some democrats, Mayor Richard Daley today said he would not join the call for controversial Lieutenant Governor Nominee Scott Lee Cohen to step down.

Daley called the whole Cohen situation a “constitutional dilemma,” but said neither he, nor any newspaper, nor anyone in Illinois could ask Cohen to resign just because they “don’t like him anymore.”

Daley said the people made their choice when Cohen won the nomination in Tuesday’s Democratic primary.

The mayor would not commit to saying Cohen should remain on the November ballot, but called it a very complicated issue.

Daley says he’d prefer a system where candidates for governor and lieutenant governor ran as a single ticket, much like candidates for President and Vice President do.

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