A day after Bob Hawkesworth announced he didn’t have a prayer of winning the mayor’s race, he made the unsurprising move of throwing his support behind Barb Higgins. After weeks of running pretty negative campaigns against the three front-runners, I guess Higgins was the candidate he loathed the least.

I’m not going to begrudge Hawkesworth the right to drop out and throw his weight behind someone else, although I’m sure people who cast a ballot for him in advance polls wish he’d have made that decision before nomination day.

BH the soon-to-be former alderman says despite some differences, he and BH the former anchor see eye-to-eye on a lot of things. This despite disagreeing on Hawkesworth’s big wedge issue, the tunnel.

Ald. BH went to great pains to tell us how the tunnel was going to set us back $500 million, mortgage our future and put other important infrastrtucture on the back burner, all to cut a few minutes off a commute and serve a small number of people.

That was his BIG issue. He even went so far as to claim Higgins’ idea to make the project a P3 would lead to something like a $16 toll.

He has also taken great pains to talk about how other candidates plans for budget cuts are the “wrong priority.”

I don’t know if Hawkesworth is aware, but to get to the property tax targets Higgins is promoting in her policy document would require steep cuts. Heck, to get to the proposed 6.7%, the incoming council has to cut $60 million. Now where did Hawkesworth think the money was going to come from?

So yeah, aside from those two pretty freaking huge issues, BH squared may be in perfect harmony. But somehow I doubt it. It looks more like Hawkesworth is selling out two of the biggest ideals he was pushing in the election to promote someone who is merely not the worst choice, rather than out of a belief that Higgins is the best person for that job.