Posted on 02/28/2023 9:28:28 AM PST by SeekAndFind
The first leg of the Chicago mayoral contest will close on Tuesday, Feb. 28, as the nine-candidate field is whittled down to two. The top two finishers will face each other in a runoff election scheduled for April 4, and the battle royale to see which of those two candidates will be the next mayor has degenerated into a real slugfest.
There are four major candidates: incumbent mayor Lori Lightfoot, progressive U.S. Rep. Jesús “Chuy” García, Cook County Commissioner Brandon Johnson, and Paul Vallas, a former head of schools in Chicago, Philadelphia, and New Orleans.
Vallas claims to be the law-and-order candidate, while Johnson has indicated he will defund the police and spend the money on “people.” Garcia is a radical congressman, and Lightfoot has presided over a city in the throes of a violent crime wave not seen since the 1990s.
Not much to choose from. And that may be why fully 19% of Chicago voters are undecided three days from the primary election.
But there is a sense of an effort to claw back some of what Chicago has lost. Indeed, there’s a growing movement by more moderate forces in urban areas across the country to push back against the radical left’s policies that have left so many cities unlivable for so many people.
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The progressive politics that have dominated the Windy City for decades have arrived at an inflection point, with headline after headline heralding violence and government failure at every level. It even greets travelers stepping off airplanes, as the recent images of sprawling homeless encampments within O’Hare International Airport confirm. Mayor Lori Lightfoot is bracing for the very real possibility of a stinging voter rebuke, facing challenges both from moderate Democrats and candidates much further to her left.
The election could serve as a signal both in Chicago and to other major urban leaders that their citizens may be far more moderate than the politics they begrudgingly tolerate. The election of a Chicago centrist would mark a serious threat to the entrenched power structures currently coursing through big-city politics – especially the outsize influence of public-sector unions.
The biggest public-sector union is the teachers union, which has made no secret of its desire to run the entire city government.
Interesting question, but elections are not fair, and the public is grossly incompetent to vote.
It’ll be the one the deep state wants Chicago to ahve.
If you look up corruption in Webster’s it has a picture of chicago. Don’t hold your breath law and order folks!
Law-and-Order Candidate?.....in chicago???!!
Not bloody likely
This takes more than city government. County and State level changes are required.
Meet the new boss.
DemocRAT run cities. We know how ballots are counted there. We don’t need “or”.
> and Paul Vallas, a former head of schools in Chicago, Philadelphia, and New Orleans. Vallas claims to be the law-and-order candidate… <
Do not trust any big city school boss. They are all either wokesters or stooges of wokesters.
Poor Chicago. There’s no good choice at all.
Chicago is a lost cause.
Whoever gets elected will still be a liberal with no idea of how to get crime under control. Abrams was elected mayor of NYC, mostly because he was a former cop, but, he is still a liberal and he’s had no effect on the crime rate in the city after more than a year.
So, if they don’t get somebody like Julianni for mayor, fuhgettaboutit.
Well thats certainly giving the voting public a lot of credit. LOL. Thinkin 10-15% of folks give a crap. Funny tiktok videos and stuff is importanter.
I’m sorry for the remaining decent people living in Chicago. But this election will change nothing. The big Democrat controlled cities are a toxic, power-hungry coalition of government, NGO’s, and unions catering mostly to money and power by fomenting racial hatred and hard-green radicalization. That coalition cannot be divested of power, even if 80% of the public thinks things could be done better.
What, all three of them?
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Not really. Corruption and crime will win out once again there, just like it always does.
“But this election will change nothing.”
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Correct. Most of the people in the city seem to be OK with rampant corruption and crime. Chicago it what it is.
New York City elected their so-called law & order mayor Eric Adams. See how that is playing out.
Don’t be fooled by the faux-consternation about Chicago being a “failed city.” That city is deeply proud of its well-earned reputation of a violent, corrupt hellhole. Lightfoot wins easily.
Law-and-Order Candidate? Well, there goes the black vote…
Chicago has been on a long, slow descent into complete moral depravity for a very long time. It accelerated under Rahm Emmanuel and went into warp speed under Liberal Lesbian Licker Lori Lightfoot.
Who holds that office going forwad is irrelevant. Chicago is lost. It's not "coming back and the proof of that is in all those like me who refuse to go into the office in the city, when I can work remotely from home or our data center in the far away burbs in a completely different county.
Thats the truth.
“Do not trust any big city school boss. They are all either wokesters or stooges of wokesters.”
Well, Vallas was running the CPS in the 90s, so he’s from a generation before “woke” was really a thing. Still a leftie, but at least a bit more practical of a leftie.
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