* More and more people are saying privately that they believe Danny Davis will do what he usually does and pull the plug on his mayoral race, even though he was picked as the so-called “consensus” candidate by a large group of African-American leaders. ABC7’s Charles Thomas is so far unimpressed…

Pols began whispering doubts about Davis’ mayoral ambitions as long ago as his mid-November announcement. Many of the prominent Coalition members who named him their “consensus” candidate did not bother to show up.

And Davis’ Congressional colleague Rep. Bobby Rush–who was one of the original movers in the effort to rally financial and political backing around a single black candidate–announced his support for Carol Moseley Braun.

There is also whispered concern that Davis has not been able to raise enough cash for a campaign.

What Danny Davis does have is great name recognition, an admirable record serving Chicago in Washington and a voter base that stretches from the lakefront to the city limits on the west side.

What I’m sure he does not have is a lot of time between now and the February 22nd city election.

If he’s serious about running for mayor…he’d be advised to begin acting like it.

* Oops…

When Rahm Emanuel originally filed his 2009 Illinois tax return, he indicated he was only a “part-year resident’’ of the state that year, since he had moved to Washington D.C. to serve as President Obama’s chief of staff.

But after he decided to return to Chicago to run for mayor this fall — and after several people challenged whether he was eligible to run based on the fact that he hadn’t lived in the city for a full-year prior to the Feb. 2 election — he filed an amended return.

Explanation…

“The original return’s statements regarding part-year residency were not accurate and were inconsistent with our continued payments of Illinois estimated tax, both in the original 2009 return and subsequently,” the form reads. “The amended return makes clear that we were full year residents of Illinois in 2009 and it reports all of our income.”

More…

Washington D.C. law requires payment of local income tax by individuals present in Washington for 183 or more days even if they are residents of another state, according to a statement from Emanuel spokesman Ben LaBolt. “Rahm’s tax return makes clear that he always remained a Chicago resident and continued to pay income taxes in Chicago in 2010, in addition to property taxes, maintaining car and voter registration in Chicago and being clear that he intended to return to Chicago once his service to President Obama was complete,” the statement said.

* Emanuel submitted hundreds of pages of documents for Tuesday’s hearing. I have a few of them. You can click here to browse through them. An e-mail exchange between Emanuel’s wife and the couple’s realtor makes it pretty darned clear that the two fully intended to return to Chicago to live.

* Speaking of his wife, the objectors want to call Amy Rule, Emanuel’s wife. Emanuel’s attorney objected, but it wasn’t his finest moment, to say the least…

We object strenuously, she is a mother of three young children,” said Michael Kasper, one of Emanuel’s attorneys. “It’s no secret they are in Washington D. C.”

That response brought catcalls from the room. “Where she lives!” one man shouted.

Objector Alice Coffey said it’s pertinent that Rule would have to fly from Washington to testify the family lives in Chicago. “Am I missing something?” Coffey said.

Morris warned Emanuel’s lawyers that the stipulation needs to cover all issues that might relate to Rule’s testimony.

“You’re going to have to comprehensively pursuade me” that Rule doesn’t need to be called, Morris said.

Morris said he would hold another status hearing at 9 a.m. Monday to address the stipulations.

* Burt Odelson had his own weekend document dump…

Odelson responded Sunday with his own exhibits, including electric and gas bills for the house, which are in the name of the tenant, Robert Halpin, who briefly joined the race for mayor himself.

* Using video trackers is standard procedure in campaigns. But Rahm Emanuel’s trackers are going too far. For instance, one showed up at a private meeting between not-for-profit groups and rival candidate Gery Chico. When asked who he was, the tracker said he was just a private citizen interested in learning about Chico’s positions. Others, when confronted, denied at first that they were with Emanuel’s campaign. These are apparently college kids, so they’re really not at fault here. The Emanuel campaign is training them to deceive, and that’s just wrong…

Chico spokesperson Brooke Anderson responded to the Emanuel campaign’s claim that it was merely “attending a public event to see what is said about the campaign.”

“We would welcome Team Rahm to attend our public events,” Anderson said, “but they shouldn’t lie about who they are. And I would also point out that one of those was not a public event. It was a private meeting with nonprofit leaders. They [Rahm’s campaign] were not invited. They came anyway, and they misrepresented themselves.”

Video…

Emanuel needs to get control of his campaign.

* Roundup…

* Rahm: Make parents vow to help

* Braun’s finacial angel - TV station owner in racially charged case lent her $250,000

* Emanuel campaigns on South Side

* Vallas praises Chico, ribs Emanuel