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Anybody catch WIND’s Joe Walsh’s comments on the Stone arrest ?

Here is something that should be an issue. Ward remaps; Here’s why Chicagoans are seeing more rats and lousy snow removal and should be an issue
Burkes ward ,14th, was originally known as “Back of The Yards” once the home of the famous Chicago Stock Yards where most food processors along with employee demographics have since relocated. It was a compact area almost square composed mostly of single and 2 story frame and brick family dwellings mixed with scattered brick apartment units. Because many were of frame construction and subject to fire the area was redlined by insurance companies

His ward now consists of areas carved from the 12th and 23rd wards miles from the original 14th boundaries.

When redistricted along with several other wards. Chicago had neighborhoods divided to create “Hispanic”residential sections going to Hispanic aldermanic and congressional (Gutierez) candidates and blacks going to black candidates.

That has had the effect of breaking up a contiguous geographic continuity and community identity. Because the wards affected which are really like small towns have had sections broken up into areas where if a problem arises in a given section of street which has one way traffic only may be two way a block down because it’s in a different ward. It has also played hell on zoning and because of the disruption of jurisdictions with the administration of city services such as streets and sanitation which the alderman (salary $120.000 plus allocations on local projects) do oversee and have input over.

I saw Walsh’s tweets. That guy needs to be smacked.

Racial wards, I see no chance of that ending.

I think I told you, my Alderman (Maldanado) has a Black opponent who is running on an anti Puerto-Rican hegemony and Leninist platform. Though this video by her supporters about Maldanado sounds highly accurate. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2w9589JcJNA

There’s a third candidate, a developer whom Maldanado casts as a dirty gentrifer.

Choices choices. I haven’t even looked into City Clerk and Treasurer yet.

I shoulda pinged you my Mayoral thoughts, at the bottom of this thread here https://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3714444/posts