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

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Literally even Obama would lose to Rahm Machineuel.

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Lightfoot picks up endorsements of Rep. Robin Kelly, David Orr, and Dick Simpson

https://abc7chicago.com/politics/lori-lighfoot-picks-up-endorsements-in-week-before-mayoral-election-/5147724/

I try not to get my hopes up, but it never works

Come on Lori!

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Just got back and... HOLY F[inks] LIGHTFOOT WINNING A PLURALITY WITH PRECKWINKLE IN 2ND? YAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAS.

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WTF!!!??? I thought Mendoza was a shoe-in, against either Preckwinkle or Daley. What happened, and where did Lightfoot come from?

why would you think this

This is Blairite you’re talking to.

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WTF!!!??? I thought Mendoza was a shoe-in, against either Preckwinkle or Daley. What happened, and where did Lightfoot come from?

why would you think this

She's important,

That’s subjective.

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So did...most of the other major candidates?

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Granted, I haven’t been paying too close attention to this race, but was it really that much more than any of the other candidates?

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Who is the early favorite to win the Runoff in less than 2 months ?

I think polling has indicated Lightfoot, but not sure.

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An additional thought: Joyce won the wards that I would have expected to go for Daley. My guess is that without Joyce in the race, Daley would have picked up a good chunk of those votes, and probably would have made the runoff. Then again, those Joyce wards are loaded with police, firefighters and other city workers. They may have felt Daley would be too beholden to business and not enough to their interests, and needed to park their votes somewhere - that happened to be Joyce.

the quip I saw was "Joyce's platform was 'hands off pensions' and Daley's platform was 'I am going to put my hands on your pensions'"

Yep. Daley was the ONLY CANDIDATE who said he'd favor amending the constitution to allow the state and city to reduce pensions of current workers. That's a no-no among city workers, obviously.

Wait, he said that? LOL.

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Yeah I’m not so sure how I feel about this race anymore.

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I fully suppory Melissa Conyears Ervin, even before the Trib endorsed her.  She’s not a politician - no website, no campaign.  Pawar has been running for office since he was born.

LOLOLOLOLOLOLOL

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Is one of the two the clear establishment candidate? And if so: who and why?

Here’s the donor history of Lightfoot’s top donors
-John Canning: $200k to Bill Daley, $200k to Rahm, $100k to Rahm’s PAC, $10k to Madigan, $250 to Rauner
-Paul Finnegan: $300k to Bill Daley, $600k to Rahm, $100k to Rahm’s PAC, $300k to Stand for Children [pro-charter PAC]
-Meredith Bluhm-Wolf: $80k to Rahm, $15k to GOP treasurer candidate Tom Cross, $5k to GOP state sen Christine Radogno, $1.5k to Pat O’Connor (Rahm’s floor leader, longtime machine-aligned Alderman, one of the Vrdolyak 29)
-Leslie Bluhm: $56k to Rahm, $25k to Tom Cross, $5k to Radogno, $10k to Illinois House Republican leader Jim Durkin

And here’s Toni’s largest donors
-Service Employees International Union - Illinois Council
-SEIU Local 1
-United Food & Commercial Workers Local 881
-Chicago Teachers Union
-SEIU Local 73
-SEIU Healthcare Illinois-Indiana
-American Federation of Teachers

You can make a pedantic argument about who has what titles, but one candidate is owned by the city's wealthy financial interests and the other is the candidate of working people. Seems fairly clear-cut to me.

That's not to say that Preckwinkle doesn't have some reasonably strong establishment links either.

I'm curious, what was the realization that caused your abrupt switch from Lightfoot to Toni?

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Where can results be found?

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3 to 1?

Jesus.

And probably Rip Pawar too.

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lmao DDHQ has projected already.

Lori Lightfoot (Nonpartisan) (✓)   74.4%   190,489
Toni Preckwinkle (Nonpartisan)     25.6%   65,674

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Yeah 71% in and Lightfoot is maintaining ~3 to 1. Wasn't expecting close to this much of a blowout.

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Not looking at results beyond mayoral, how much did MCE win by?

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Not looking at results beyond mayoral, how much did MCE win by?

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I’m at a social gathering so not researching, but according to political geeks on twitter, Lightfoot won Preckwinkle’s home turf, Ward 4.

That is unbelievable.

60-40, yes. Closest was mine, which Lightfoot won 54-46 or so.

Conyears-Ervin won big, around 60-40.

Well “big” is sort of relative in citywide races today, no?

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Council members confirm Ed Burke is organizing council against Lightfoot

https://chicago.suntimes.com/news/chicago-mayor-elect-lori-lightfoot-alderman-edward-burke-organize-against-her/

Reminiscent of the Vrdolyak 29 days against Harold Washington. Difference is that Vrdolyak and Burke are on their way to the pen this time.

I'd like to keep this thread going to discuss Chicago political affairs if that is good with everyone else.

Oh joy.

Is Burke himself still denying?

Also, given the ridiculous mandate for Lightfoot, wouldn’t she have a massive public support advantage in any Council Wars 2.0?

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The treatment of Ed Burke, who loves Chicago so much, is shameufl.