Rahm is the better man. As a republican and a Chicagoan, I can tell you the city had to vote for Rahm. Chuy is the Union representative here. Chicago is already up to its ears in union pension dept.
Rahm pissed off the unions when he opened charter schools and closed failed schools. He asked the business leaders what kinds of graduates they would hire from the Chicago City Colleges and he changed the curriculum. In many cases he needed to hire business specialists to teach the classes not union teachers. And he has privatized some city services.
While I am against Rahm on a lot of things. Chuy would have killed Chicago. He promised the unions everything. Including appointing union leaders to all the boards in the city. In a city that votes 90% democrat, believe me, Rahm is the best we could do.
Rant time, I apologize in advance.
You know, all the mouth-breathing idiots here who were rooting for Chuy really piss me off. Lots of comments like “Let Chicago burn” and other crap like that.
Anyone who cares about Chicago or anyone who lives here should be glad Garcia lost, period. Anyone who doesn’t can eat me and mind their own business.
Now make no mistake, Rahm is a scumsucker of the highest order, it sickened me to vote for him and I couldn’t bring myself to do it in the first round even though I knew I should have. But a scumsucker of the highest order is better than a borderline retarded progressive-Leninist with possible gang ties (so I hear) who would have destroyed this city. Rahm is an ***hole corrupt thug. Chuy is a cross between Emperor Nero, Raul Castro, and a demented homeless octogenarian.
Unions were for Chuy. Go check out DU, there are in tears, ALL of them are for Chuy. This isn’t rocket science, the least bad option (and this is CHICAGO, it’s gonna be bad vs. worse) was crystal clear.