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The election race you didn't hear about: Voters just ran a top Chicago-area prosecutor out of office
CHICAGO (AP) ^ | 03.15.2016 | Sophia Tareen

Posted on 03/15/2016 7:48:29 PM PDT by ameribbean expat

Voters ousted the Chicago area's top prosecutor Tuesday, backing Democratic primary challenger Kim Foxx in a campaign dominated by questions about Cook County State's Attorney Anita Alvarez's handling of the shooting death of a black teenager at the hands of a white police officer.

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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Government; Politics/Elections; US: Illinois
KEYWORDS: afroturf; anitaalvarez; astroturf; blackkk; blackliesmatter; blacklivesmatter; chicago; cookcounty; crookcounty; illinois; kimfoxx; luisgutierrez; prosecutor; redistribution; reparations; whiteprivilege
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1 posted on 03/15/2016 7:48:29 PM PDT by ameribbean expat
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To: ameribbean expat

Interesting. Sounds like that prosecutors office needed a shake up.


2 posted on 03/15/2016 7:58:05 PM PDT by Lonesome in Massachussets (Prendre cinq et rendre quatre ce n'est pas donner.)
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To: ameribbean expat

Yeah, but the one who won is like the prosecutor in Baltimore. Look for Chicago Homicides to go even higher.


3 posted on 03/15/2016 8:00:07 PM PDT by sharkhawk (Here come the Hawks, the mighty Black Hawks)
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To: ameribbean expat

Oh...I thought maybe tar, feathers and a rail were involved.


4 posted on 03/15/2016 8:00:25 PM PDT by WKUHilltopper (And yet...we continue to tolerate this crap...)
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To: ameribbean expat

But will this be any improvement? After all it’s Chicago, and the replacement is a “Holder’s Person!”


5 posted on 03/15/2016 8:07:49 PM PDT by vette6387 (Obama can go to hell!)
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To: ameribbean expat

If you thought the murder rate was out of control before...

6 posted on 03/15/2016 8:08:00 PM PDT by Snickering Hound
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To: sharkhawk

Chicago is so corrupt, it is hard to know what the election means.

My guess is that it will be much less likely that criminals will be prosectuted; crime will soar, and Chicago will accelerate its downward trend.


7 posted on 03/15/2016 8:08:37 PM PDT by marktwain
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To: Lonesome in Massachussets

“Interesting. Sounds like that prosecutors office needed a shake up.”

It’s Chicago....”Meet the new boss, just the same as the old boss”


8 posted on 03/15/2016 8:10:32 PM PDT by juggernaut
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To: ameribbean expat

They have a secret holding building. That is outrageous.
The city is dirty, and it looks like this needed to happen.

They couldn’t take out Rahm, so this is the best they can get. For now.


9 posted on 03/15/2016 8:20:51 PM PDT by mabelkitty (Trump 2016! Mabelkitty: Wishing Governor Jim Rhodes would come back...)
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To: ameribbean expat

Keep feeding a monster till it feeds on you...


10 posted on 03/15/2016 8:27:22 PM PDT by Bogey78O (We had a good run. Coulda been great still.)
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To: Lonesome in Massachussets; BillyBoy; hockeyfan44; fieldmarshaldj

We need a tough on crime Republican State’s Attorney.

What we got was a Black woman winning by waving the bloody shirts of dead thugs who were killed by the popo. I would have preferred the incumbent to win, things will get even worse now.


11 posted on 03/15/2016 8:27:53 PM PDT by Impy (The night is dark and full of terrors.)
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This moron (Foxx) has been caught twice already for lying and breaking campaign laws. She was fined 20,000 for accepting illegal donations, and she was caught stating she has tried “hundreds of felony cases”. The truth is that she has been to felony trial a total of FOUR times in her entire career.
12 posted on 03/15/2016 8:31:58 PM PDT by YeahBuddy
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To: marktwain

Chicago is going in the same direction as Detroit.


13 posted on 03/15/2016 8:45:28 PM PDT by RobbyS (What about the size of the national debt?)
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To: ameribbean expat

Crook County ...


14 posted on 03/15/2016 9:09:25 PM PDT by nevermorelenore
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To: Snickering Hound

Many of these murders in big cities are gang members thinning the herd, what police secretly call victimless crimes.


15 posted on 03/15/2016 9:32:47 PM PDT by Pining_4_TX (All those who were appointed to eternal life believed. Acts 13:48)
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To: ameribbean expat

Foxx also favors more gun control.
I need to find a way to move to Texas.


16 posted on 03/15/2016 9:43:23 PM PDT by Outland (Ping me when the revolution starts. Anything less won't fix this mess.)
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gun control is settled law- SCOTUS says so /semi sarcastic


17 posted on 03/15/2016 11:20:28 PM PDT by Nailbiter
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To: YeahBuddy; PhilCollins; BillyBoy; TheRightGuy; Steelers6; Velveeta; hockeyfan44; fieldmarshaldj; ...

The Republican candidate is Christopher Pfannkuche

http://www.votechristopher.com/

It’s hopeless put we got pick up the lance and tilt at the windmill. Can’t give this witch a pass. The crime in Chicago is out of control and Kim Foxx is a step in the WRONG direction.


18 posted on 03/15/2016 11:34:05 PM PDT by Impy (The night is dark and full of terrors.)
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I'm glad we at least have a Republican running for this office on the ballot already. I made sure I voted for Christopher. Most of the GOP primary races in Crook County had the ever popular "No Candidate" on the ballot.

Of course the media is acting like Foxx is already the new States Attorney. We don't need no stinkin' election in November, start the coronation now!

Interesting trivia, the last Republican to win countywide in Crook was States Attorney Jack O'Malley in 1992. Tony Pericia (who won the suburbs but lost the city) would have been the second.

19 posted on 03/16/2016 12:05:38 AM PDT by BillyBoy (Impeach Obama? Yes We Can!)
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Chicago is nearly divided by 1/3 black, 1/3 white and 1/3 hispanic with a small percentage of Asians. 96.8% of homicides are committed by blacks and hispanics, 93.3 rapes are by blacks / Hispanics, 85.2% of robberies by Blacks, 10.8% by Hispanics and 94.5% of aggravated assaults by blacks and Hispanics. In my estimation, Chicago has a race problem.


20 posted on 03/16/2016 12:16:01 AM PDT by Dapper 26
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