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Originally Posted by UPChicago
I could understand this being a reason, its part of the reason I may support Lori in the runoff but too many people here have favorited candidates who were just as if not more connected to the machine over her for this to be the general consensus.
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True... in theory... for those who voted for Daley... but in the end I felt that: a) holding Daley's family against him was not entirely fair, b) I thought he would be good for business, and c) I liked his work with the Obama administration. So given the dearth of great candidates, on balance, I went with the guy I knew.
With Peckwinkle we have hard evidence of her being a machine politician. She was exposed through her bodyguard and head of security. I found him to be very credible. The fact that he was caught using a county vehicle to secretly campaign for one of Peckwinkle's cronies provided considerable evidence of the way she operates. Add in her ties to Burke and you have all the ingredients for just the kind of behavior we are trying to get rid of. This, to me, was hard evidence. The evidence against Daley was more speculative in nature.
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