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Originally Posted by Handro
I'm not holding my breath. The guy claims to be this great collaborator with a big tent but he ran a pretty lousy campaign, attacking doddering old Vallas as if he was running against the love child of David Duke and Mussolini. He was really ham-fisted and oddly personal in a lot of his attacks throughout the run-off and he and the CTU leadership seem overly eager to fight any person or group that pushes back even a little on their priorities. How is he going to build healthy working relationships with all the stakeholders that he won the contest by denigrating?
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Oh I totally agree with most of this, but also it's an election. What's he going to do - just say he agrees with his opponent when he does? That type of talk doesn't get you elected typically. People have also grown too accustomed to attack politics as well. The thing I appreciated about Vallas was that he held off on the attacks for way longer and was running big time on policy.
You usually attack when you either actually agree with your opponent on some point or you have no good points vs. your opponent. They definitely differed on enough but there were definitely some things they agreed on that I caught - whether fully or intersection points.
They both definitely agree that safety is a major concern and actually impacts a ton of things. They obviously had different opinions about how to achieve greater safety, but there were things that showed me there was some intersection there. Vallas really didn't do a good job of getting all his points across IMO. From reading his plan, I know that he and Johnson actually agreed that getting youth involved in thing outside of school is one key to curbing violence in the city. Vallas talked about keeping schools open later, on weekends, and in the summer to give kids more activities outside of class to do. He may have once mentioned employment too. Johnson talked about massive youth employment programs. They both differ obviously in that Vallas wants to majorly expand the police program whereas Johnson doesn't. Although Johnson a week or so ago said he wouldn't cut the CPD budget but he'd try and allocate a few resources (i.e. get more detectives to solve murders because the rates are so low. They both agreed on that point). But it actually did show me that Vallas isn't totally "cops solve everything" and he does show some understanding of fixing some of the actual root issues. He just did a 🞵🞵🞵🞵 job of communicating that to the masses.
I didn't vote for Johnson but it's my city. I'm going to give him a chance and see what kind of person he actually is outside of a vicious election when he doesn't have to attack some guy. Also what was funny is that Vallas quipped that "we're actually friends outside of this" in the last debate. No idea if it's true but Johnson didn't fight the statement at all.
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