Poor David Plouffe!  His secret lobbying of his old Obama White House colleague, current Chicago mayor Rahm Emanuel, was never supposed to become public.  If only two pesky open records lawsuits hadn't forced the mayor to disclose hundreds of private emails in which he conducted city business in secret.  Darn those sunshine laws! Bill Ruthhart and Hal Dardic of the Chicago Tribune report: A former Uber senior executive who once served as Barack Obama's campaign manager has been fined $90,000 by the Chicago Board of Ethics for illegally lobbying Mayor Rahm Emanuel on behalf of the ride-sharing company. The board voted 5-0 to find that David Plouffe violated city ethics rules by failing to register as a lobbyist after contacting Emanuel to help the company on regulations for picking up travelers at Chicago's two airports. Boy-faced Plouffe during the 2008 campaign.   When an email from November...(Read Full Post)