Chicago Megathread: With CTU on strike, Lightfoot lays out her budget

[Mr. Illini]

Cook County Clerk Dorothy Brown is in:

http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/local/politics/ct-met-rahm-emanuel-dorothy-brown-20180419-story.html

She's uh... interesting.  A total trainwreck who has no business being in elected office, and uses the Clerk's office purely to enrich herself and her family/friends.  In other words, she probably has a great shot if she's not behind bars at that point!

I'll vote for pretty much anyone else.

Also, just to clarify, she is the Clerk of the Circuit Court. Orr is the clerk.

[Green Line]

The Jason Van Dyke (Laquan McDonald) trial is tentatively set to begin sometime this summer.  This is setting up to be very bad timing for Rahmbo.  Depending on when it wraps up, there's a good chance it will be fresh in the minds of many people.  Nobody wants to talk about it out loud either, but there's an outside chance that Van Dyke won't be going back to jail (rightly or wrongly).  If that happens, its lights out for Rahm.

[MAINEiac4434]

I wonder if that will creat any sort of opening for Black Lives Matter activist Ja'Mal Green.

Probably not; DeRay Mckesson was a thousand times more visible than Green and he got only like 4% in the primary.

[Mr. Illini]

Chicago Police Board President and Police Accountability Task Force Chair Lori Lightfoot will run for mayor.

http://abc7chicago.com/politics/lori-lightfoot-running-for-chicago-mayor/3454996/

I predict that she will try to re-assemble the Harold Washington coalition of the African-American community and progressive white lakefront neighborhoods, particularly Lakeview, Uptown, and Edgewater, which have large LGBT populations (she is openly gay). Of course, those north side lakefront wards were some of Rahm's best areas last time around (save Lincoln Park and the near north side).  

She has my support initially, though I am interested in hearing more of her specific policy ideas.

This makes the field (bolded candidates that I think have a chance to compete):

Rahm Emanuel (I)
Dorothy Brown
Ja'Mal Green
Troy LaRaviere
Lori Lightfoot
John Kolzar
Garry McCarthy
Neal Sales-Griffin
Paul Vallas
Willie Wilson

[Donerail]

Disagree that Brown's competitive -- I think a large part of this bid is raising money for legal fees.

[KingSweden]

None of these candidates seem that great

[MAINEiac4434]

JaMal or bust.

[Mr. Illini]

None of these candidates seem that great

I think Lightfoot is a pretty great candidate

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I've done zero research into the race as I live in Cook, not Chicago, but I bet any of these candidates would be better than Rahm.

[MAINEiac4434]

I've done zero research into the race as I live in Cook, not Chicago, but I bet any of these candidates would be better than Rahm.

Richard Daley’s corpse would be better than Rahm.

[Ye We Can]

All these candidates suck. I'm gonna have to vote for Rahm again

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I've done zero research into the race as I live in Cook, not Chicago, but I bet any of these candidates would be better than Rahm.

Richard Daley’s corpse would be better than Rahm.

At least whatever Daley was behind the scenes actually being Mayor would be more efficient.

[Mr. Illini]

All these candidates suck. I'm gonna have to vote for Rahm again

Lightfoot!

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All these candidates suck. I'm gonna have to vote for Rahm again

Can you just not vote my boi

[Zaybay]

Literally anyone but Rahm.

All these candidates suck. I'm gonna have to vote for Rahm again

Can you just not vote my boi

[Amenhotep Bakari-Sellers]

That's why patrons are pulling a mass exodus out of and into suburbs

[Donerail]

That's why patrons are pulling a mass exodus out of and into suburbs

there is no shortage of patrón in chicago

[Predictor]

Republicans are dead in Illinois. They should just abandon ship and let the state get fixed (focus your resources on hillbilly Iowa or something).

[Mr. Illini]

That's why patrons are pulling a mass exodus out of and into suburbs

there is no shortage of patrón in chicago

You got that right

[leonard4liberty]

Republicans are dead in Illinois. They should just abandon ship and let the state get fixed (focus your resources on hillbilly Iowa or something).

Well, to be honest, Republicans are dead in C(r)ook, DuPage and possibly Will and McHenry counties.

When you get south of Interstate 80, it's predominantly 70/30 GOP and that's just based on partisan voter registrations. With automatic voter registration having kicked off last week, it's more like 50/35/15 with the majority of those automatic registrations being nonpartisan/independent.

All I can hope for is the death of the two-party system in Illinois.

[Mr. Illini]

Republicans are dead in Illinois. They should just abandon ship and let the state get fixed (focus your resources on hillbilly Iowa or something).

Well, to be honest, Republicans are dead in C(r)ook, DuPage and possibly Will and McHenry counties.

When you get south of Interstate 80, it's predominantly 70/30 GOP and that's just based on partisan voter registrations. With automatic voter registration having kicked off last week, it's more like 50/35/15 with the majority of those automatic registrations being nonpartisan/independent.

All I can hope for is the death of the two-party system in Illinois.

Who cares? You need 2/3 of: urban, suburban, rural in IL. Dems have 2/3 for the foreseeable future, and the GOP might not even be able to hold rural areas like IL-13 and IL-12 this year.

[Pandaguineapig]

Like I've said, Illinois democrats are zombies and will vote as they're told, Rahm will win

[Donerail]

https://twitter.com/maxwelltani/status/1019800097205473282

Chano for Mayor, y'all.

[Mr. Illini]

https://twitter.com/maxwelltani/status/1019800097205473282

Chano for Mayor, y'all.

He's going to do a great job with this. I'll be a regular reader.

Big things going in Chicago over the last 5-10 years. We're no longer the machine city.

[Ye We Can]

I mean hey maybe Chance the mayor will be better at being in government than he was in the music industry. Could be!