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

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Endorsed!!!

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Literally even Obama would lose to Rahm Machineuel.

Rahm isn't even that machine.  City workers were some of his worst people in the last election.

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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!

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Further literature on the esteemed Clerk.

https://www.google.com/amp/www.chicagotribune.com/news/opinion/editorials/ct-edit-dorothy-brown-mayor-election-20180419-story,amp.html

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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.

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McCarthy actually has a better shot than I originally thought at making the run-off, mostly thanks to how pathetic every other candidate is.  In fact, I would say right now he’s the favorite for the second spot - very exciting!

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Yesss so happy to see my favorite political family making a comeback.  Chicago needs the Daleys.  We love you!

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I would think that for Bill to jump in he knows Obama will endorse him.  If that’s the case, game over.

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Powerful longtime alderman Ed Burke (think Council Wars) had his city hall & ward offices raided by the FBI yesterday.  He is already facing a potenitally competitive election in Feb.

https://chicago.suntimes.com/news/ed-burke-fbi-federal-agents-city-hall-council/

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Glad to see the good people of Chicago coming back to their loving overlords, the Daleys 🥰

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Highly respected and beloved Congressman Bobby Rush has endorsed Daley.

https://www.chicagotribune.com/news/local/politics/ct-met-bobby-rush-endorses-bill-daley-20190131-story.html

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Only a Daley can fix Chicago.

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I listened to Lori Lightfoot yesterday - she is really convincing.  Very intelligent.  Toni is so unlikeable.   I think if LLF got into a runoff she would have a real chance at winning againt any candidate.  Too bad she's anti-police!

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Willie Wilson was endorsed by the Cook County GOP.

Still think he's not going to get the most Republican support, sjoyce?

Yes? the Cook County GOP is mostly run by cranks, not sure why you think they matter

Oddly, Willie Wilson was also endorsed by Progressive Caucus and DSA member Congressman Danny K. Davis. To someone out of the loop, can someone tell me what’s Willie Wilson’s platform for mayor? Because all of these contradictory endorsements along with no ad presence makes it very confusing to know the appeal and niche one has to be polling 10%.

He doesn't have a coherant platform which is why he's able to appeal to so many random people.  I don't think a lot of Republicans that support him are serious, they just think it would be funny if he won.  He's not a bright bulb.

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Just cast my vote for the BIG D!  Lets hope we get a Daley/Burke two-fer tonight - can’t let Chicago go the way of Detroit.

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Just cast my vote for the BIG D!  Lets hope we get a Daley/Burke two-fer tonight - can’t let Chicago go the way of Detroit.

Why Daley? You could easily of voted for Gerry Chico or Garry McCarthy or Susana Meldoza

McCarthy has absolutely no chance.  Chico or Mendoza would be acceptable but why go for that when you have a legend on the ballot.

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Just cast my vote for the BIG D!  Lets hope we get a Daley/Burke two-fer tonight - can’t let Chicago go the way of Detroit.

Any fault the city has is in part due to the corrupt Daley clan. A Rahm-lite candidate would be disastrous for the city considering the emigration of those with the means to the suburbs and sun belt, like in the aftermath of the Teacher Strike a few years ago.

The faults Chicago has would be much, much worse without the Daley/Rahm leadership over the past decades.  They’ve kept the city a place where business actually wants to invest in.

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Was a hard choice between Daley and Vallas, went Vallas

inb4 Daley/Vallas runoff

Vallas ain’t gonna make it doe.  I will personally blame you if Daley misses the runoff!

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There might be record low turout accorind to the Trib.  Pretty pathetic considering some of the Daley elections were barely even contested.

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I hope Proco Joe win.

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Daley-LLF-Toni with 5% in.

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Burke at 48% with just 3 percent reporting.

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Whoa - just shot up to 34%.

LLF-Daley-Toni
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Lets go Melissa Conyears-Ervin !

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Burke is up to 53% now, looks like he might hold on.  At least we have one good result tonight!