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[SIGSEGV]

I'm not too worried about Burke getting reelected. He'll probably be carted off to jail any day now.

[SIGSEGV]

I'm surprised Daley conceded so early...

[Via Chicago]

glad to see some of Ken Griffin's money wasted

[ardecila]

Originally Posted by SIGSEGV

I'm not too worried about Burke getting reelected. He'll probably be carted off to jail any day now.

This guy is more slippery than a greased eel and can probably call in favors with 90% of the judges in town.

Don't count him out... if Burke gets acquitted and Preckwinkle wins mayor, it's gonna be bad.

[the urban politician]

Originally Posted by ardecila

^ We're all focused on the mayoral race, but the wards have some interesting stuff going on too. Not much good news for fans of development, but I'd say we will see continued or new momentum in many wards for bus and bike lanes.


In the 1st, Moreno's out and La Spata is in. Here's an arrogant prick who drives an Audi everywhere getting replaced by a guy who doesn't even own a car.

Amazingly, Ed Burke is not just winning in the 14th but will avoid a runoff, even after being hauled in on corruption charges. What does that guy have to do to lose an election? Unbelievable.

25th will go to a runoff between Sigcho and Acevedo, no real pro-development choice here but anybody's better than Sigcho... this is my ward, I voted for Troy Hernandez and now I've got my least two favorited candidates. Ugh. At least Acevedo, like La Spata in the 1st, is a carless guy who will likely push for transit and ped/bike improvements.

Burnett is winning handily in the 27th, so expect the West Loop boom to continue. Same for his counterparts (King and Dowell) in the South Loop.

Sadly, Carlos Rosa will avoid a runoff in the 35th... if he's in Logan/Avondale and Sigcho wins in Pilsen, we may finally start to see an uptick in development in Black neighborhoods like West Haven or Bronzeville where the aldermen are le$$ idealistic.

Michele Smith will go to a runoff in 43... she needs to go, for real. Her opponent Lindblom isn't great but at least he talks about diversifying the ward's housing beyond McMansions.

Also unfortunately Arena is out in the 45th... he was the only real champion for growth on the Northwest Side. His opponent Gardiner is basically a dog whistle dude for racist old white people scared of brown folks moving into their ward. Since any large residential development now needs affordable housing, expect that part of the city to stagnate.

LaSpata is also a LSNA anti-gentrification liberal from the east coast, just like Will Guzzardi

[ardecila]

^ Yeah, you win some you lose some. At least he doesn't seem like an asshole like Moreno (or Guzzardi, Rosa etc) and has some redeeming parts of his platform.

[Via Chicago]

Originally Posted by ardecila

This guy is more slippery than a greased eel and can probably call in favors with 90% of the judges in town.

Don't count him out... if Burke gets acquitted and Preckwinkle wins mayor, it's gonna be bad.

there''s a shrinking non-hispanic population in the 14th that's afraid once burke's gone, the area is going to go full-on little village.
they all vote en masse

[the urban politician]

Originally Posted by ardecila

^ Yeah, you win some you lose some. At least he doesn't seem like an asshole like Moreno (or Guzzardi, Rosa etc) and has some redeeming parts of his platform.

That Sigcho guy is from Pilsen Alliance and another rent control hack (just like LaSpata)

We replaced one set of tools with another, it seems

[ChiMIchael]

Originally Posted by SIGSEGV

I'm not too worried about Burke getting reelected. He'll probably be carted off to jail any day now.

But the prospect that we might have to hold a special election is problematic.

[Steely Dan]

Choo-choo!

All aboard the Lightfoot express.

[Tom In Chicago]

What a disaster!

[LouisVanDerWright]

Honestly I'm an increasing fan of Lightfoot. The late momentum her campaign developed is impressive. Would have liked her vs Daley, but oh well. Seems like she will mop the floor with Preckwinkle and frankly she's the only real reformer in the running. She's also a former federal prosecutor which makes me think the heat will continue to be turnt up on the machine dicks like Burke if she wins. As much as I dislike Rosa et al I can live with then if they are controlled by a real reformer like Lightfoot.

[SIGSEGV]

Lightfoot on Aldermanic Prerogative: https://youtu.be/yRfhM2_WdSo?t=2674

[Via Chicago]

Originally Posted by Tom In Chicago

What a disaster!

you guys would have said that about literally anyone that wasn't an ex wall street hack

Lightfoot is competent, intelligent, and will make a fine mayor

[bnk]

If either McCarthy or Vallas didn't run Daley would have secured a spot.

But the same thing can be said if Wilie Brown didn't run that his votes would have gone to some of the female black candidates.


14 running was too many. The Business community and the Rahm vote was behind Daley. But the turn out was so low, the largest minority majority is whites in population and votes. Blacks in second even though now there are more Hispanics but they do not vote as a high as a percentage.


The point is a very large segment that did vote were white, of course the teachers union white or rainbow voted for TP while the guilty Lakefront liberals voted for Lightfoot, I suspect.

The issue here is that we have no pro business mayor candidates thus far. I guess it will Coalesce around Lightfoot now that Daley is unable to make up the margin in a two way battle.



I want to know who Lightfoot's voter base is?

I see nothing pro business in her website or platform. But I suspect the business community and Daley will now have to support her in the runoff.


The fact that of the four top vote getters were black in a city with the largest percentage of whites voting is something.

Three of them were black, one a lesbian. The other black man was a joke.


So that is 43% of the total votes going to 3 blacks out of the top four and Daley getting at best 16%.

So add up those numbers and Bills numbers and clearly whites voted for someone else not named Daley even though those that did vote had good paying jobs and likely little memory of Richie.

I still think Rahm was the best choice and would have won in a runoff against anyone.



But who are all of these white voters coming out of the woodwork and demographics of them to vote for a LGBT black female over another black female in such a degree not even a staunch lifelong democrat that worked with Obama as Chief of Staff and commerce cabinet post and knows the ins and outs of DC and their money lines were inundated by whites voting for blacks? There are threads dedicated to the reverse migration from the Great Migration still posting in this site. The Black population will continue to bleed and lose population projected to 2035 where they will be 50% of what they were when Mayor Washington ran, who also needed a rainbow collection of north shore liberals, blacks and Hispanics and every other color in the spectrum in the early 80's.



Is there anything in Lightfoot's platform that is superior to PW concerning being pro big business . I see nothing to see that she will continue the Rahm like approach for poaching talent, from hopefully one day out of state one day, and I do not see much about her taxing program or how to pay to expand the CPS system.

[Vlajos]

Originally Posted by Steely Dan

Choo-choo!

All aboard the Lightfoot express.

I guess so.

[the urban politician]

Originally Posted by bnk

If either McCarthy or Vallas didn't run Daley would have secured a spot.

But the same think can be said if Wilie Brown didn't run that his votes would have gone to some of the female black candidates.


14 running was too many. The Business community and the Rahm vote was behind Daley. But the turn out was so low, the largest minority majority is whites in population and votes. Blacks in second even though now there are more Hispanics but they do not vote as a high as a percentage.


The point is a very large segment that did vote were white, perhaps lakefront liberals and the teachers that voted for TP while the guilty Lakefront liberals voted for Lightfoot, I suspect.

The issue here is that we have no pro business mayor candidates thus far. I guess it will Coalesce around Lightfoot now that Daley is unable to make up the margin in a two way battle.



I want to know who Lightfoot's voter base is?

I see nothing pro business in her website or platform. But I suspect the business community and Daley will now have to support her in the runoff.


The fact that of the four top vote getters were black in a city with the largest percentage of whites voting is something.

Three of them were black, one a lesbian. The other black man was a joke.


So that is 43% of the total votes going to 3 blacks out of the top four and Daley getting at best 16%.

So add up those numbers and Bills numbers and clearly whites voted for someone else not named Daley even though those that did vote had good paying jobs and likely little memory of Richie.

I still think Rahm was the best choice and would have won in a runoff against anyone.

^ I don’t know why you think people voted en masse on racial lines. Way oversimplification.

[Vlajos]

Originally Posted by ardecila

^ We're all focused on the mayoral race, but the wards have some interesting stuff going on too. Not much good news for fans of development, but I'd say we will see continued or new momentum in many wards for bus and bike lanes.


In the 1st, Moreno's out and La Spata is in. Here's an arrogant prick who drives an Audi everywhere getting replaced by a guy who doesn't even own a car.

Amazingly, Ed Burke is not just winning in the 14th but will avoid a runoff, even after being hauled in on corruption charges. What does that guy have to do to lose an election? Unbelievable.

25th will go to a runoff between Sigcho and Acevedo, no real pro-development choice here but anybody's better than Sigcho... this is my ward, I voted for Troy Hernandez and now I've got my least two favorited candidates. Ugh. At least Acevedo, like La Spata in the 1st, is a carless guy who will likely push for transit and ped/bike improvements.

Burnett is winning handily in the 27th, so expect the West Loop boom to continue. Same for his counterparts (King and Dowell) in the South Loop.

Sadly, Carlos Rosa will avoid a runoff in the 35th... if he's in Logan/Avondale and Sigcho wins in Pilsen, we may finally start to see an uptick in development in Black neighborhoods like West Haven or Bronzeville where the aldermen are le$$ idealistic.

Michele Smith will go to a runoff in 43... she needs to go, for real. Her opponent Lindblom isn't great but at least he talks about diversifying the ward's housing beyond McMansions.

Also unfortunately Arena is out in the 45th... he was the only real champion for growth on the Northwest Side. His opponent Gardiner is basically a dog whistle dude for racist old white people scared of brown folks moving into their ward. Since any large residential development now needs affordable housing, expect that part of the city to stagnate.

Yeah, a lot of terrible results. Not looking good for the city's future at all.

[Via Chicago]

Thinking ppl vote strictly on racial lines is about as archaic an analysis as they come. Don't quit your day job bnk, and you're welcome to join the 21st century at any time

[the urban politician]

Watch for serious messaging changes from both now. If we are going to accept that at least some racial lines voting is occurring, I’m willing to bet that the real fight now is for the white and Hispanic vote.