[LouisVanDerWright]

If Mendoza gets elected it will pretty much be the first time in Chicago history that we will have relatively policy continuum after a voluntary transfer of power.

In other words it will be the first time someone retired and wasn't replaced immediately by a reformer. Everyone else has died and been replaced by similar politicians or just held onto power forever. I would be thrilled to see Mendoza just because we might actually face a situation where we get new blood and ideas without just trashing every single policy even if it's working.