Cho: Was Wolff's "withdrawal" a ploy?

Augustus Cho is asking whether Kevin Wolff's announcement that he was leaving the mayor's race was really an attempt to get onto the council or to get Cho to drop out, giving Wolff "ever so slight a chance" of defeating Matt Czajkowski and Mark Kleinschmidt?

Wolff asked Cho to leave the race with him at last week's candidates forum sponsored by WCHL. Cho declined. 

"Could it be that if Kevin Wolff truly had withdrew and got me to withdraw with him that Matt Czajkowski -- if elected mayor -- would agree to appoint Kevin Wolff to his vacant seat on the council?" Cho asks on his blog Chautauqua.

"Worse," he continues, "is it possible that Wolff was trying to get me to drop out so that he might then not withdraw from the race, continue campaigning and, with ever so slight a chance, actually win by deception -- through the back door?"

"In any event, it is unfortunate that Wolff may have used a local media WCHL, to dramatize his perceived exit from the campaign."

Wolff, incidentally, has sent out an e-mail saying he will take his campaign signs down after the election. He says in the e-mail, posted on Cho's blog (Oct. 19), that a number of his supporters intend to vote for him even though he has withdrawn from the race.