The final vote count for the election won’t be known for several hours or days. That’s when we’ll know who they’re trying to prop up.
“She” should win in a landslide based on her qualifications.
(/s) Well bless her heart. The poor woman already had at least two strikes against her when taking office, according to the fifth paragraph. Allowances must be made. (/s)
The article doesn't mention a Republican party slate or candidate. Was there a primary election for mayor and aldermen of any-or-all political parties ???
Is there even a Republican party still functioning and fielding candidates in Chicago ???
Leni
As someone who has no personal stake in who rules over Crimecago, I nevertheless find it interesting that the one person predicted to lead the nine-person field and make the runoff, Paul Vallas, is the only white male in the race. Not knowing anything other than what I saw on Axios, I would assume that he is a vestige of the Daley machine that ran the city for at least half a century.
There are only two ways a metropolis like Chicago, NYC, Philly, Boston, etc. can be effectively run. One is to have a machine that is basically a crime family, like the Daleys in Chicago or Tammany in NYC. The other is to have an SOB who is willing to put his life on the line to break the machine, like Teddy Roosevelt in NYC or Frank Rizzo in Philly.
Getting the latter is almost impossible these days, because the people who would vote for a true reformer have long since left the city limits.
Getting the former is also impossible, because the leadership of the cities’ Democrats is based, not primarily on ill-gotten riches, but on ideological purity. To put it more bluntly at the national level, the Clintons, who craved power and wealth, ran the country better than the wokesters behind the Bidens, who crave an anti-normal revolution—but the best years happened under Donald Trump, the SOB who did everything he could to break the machine. (DeSantis is doing the same in FL; whether he has the balls and the protection to do it nationally is another issue.)