Well the Blacks pretty much fixed this for Rahm.
CMB came in 4th! with just under 9% placing her behind yuppie hipster favorite Del Valle. Pathetic, LOL at her.
A credible Black candidate, even with CMB still in probably would have forced a runoff with Rahm.
Same old same old for me 0 for 3. I voted for for Chico who appears to have been the favorite of GOP leaning voters (he carried the 41st ward). And I voted for the young Black challenger to my jerk Alderman (who won with over 80%). And I voted for the City Clerk Candidate that lost. City Treasurer was unopposed for the 3rd election in the row.
We have a couple important runoffs for Alderman.
The only Republican Brian Doherty retired. He says it doesn’t matter if the rats take it. I disagree, it’s of great symbolic importance. And it helps in statewide races not to have a rat Alderman to help turn out the vote.
The first place finisher was the rat Ward Committeeman Mary O’Connor. She faces the Doherty aide Maurita Gavin, officially a Republican who calls herself “a moderate Republican or conservative democrat”.
In the neighboring 45th Ward Republican Police Officer John Garrdio who lost the primary for County Board President faces some guy named John Arena about whom I know nothing.
I know of 1 other Republican that ran, former congressional candidate Antonine Members ran in the 17th Ward and placed third.
I feel your pain Impy...life in a “Blue” state.
Doherty is probably bitter because he was considered a surefire winner to take back the state house seat in his ward and get the Republicans 1 Chicago seat in the state legislature, but he lost to the RAT last November even with massive GOP turnout and the fact he has been representing that ward since 1991 and always won handily over RATs in the past. I suspect vote fraud.
At least Maurita Gavin made the runoff so she'll now have a chance at keeping the ward in GOP hands. Hopefully she'll win over non-machine Dems who are against O'Connor.
I'm surprised Garrdio was the top finisher in his ward, apparently the only Republican in the city who came in 1st. But he'll still have to win the runoff. Could be a good comeback after he did poorly in his primary campaign for Cook County board. I voted for Members when he ran against Rush in '08. Sad to see he came THISCLOSE to making the runoff but came up short, finishing 3rd of 6th. He's a terrific young black conservative. I endorsed him and touted him online but I'm not going out there to campaign, I'd be the only white face in the neighborhood and I'd get weird stares.
There were a couple other Republicans running (I suppose I can talk about it now that the election's over and RAT's won't be lurking about to informed their electorate):
4th Ward - Lori Yokoyama was the GOP candidate and she came in 2nd of 6 candidates, but there won't be a runoff as the RAT Burns got over 60% of the vote.
11th Ward - Carl Segvich is the Republican committeeman there and he's a staunch conservative and very anti-combine (refused to endorse Kirk). Sadly, he came in 3rd with just over 16% of the vote.
36th Ward - Brian Matos was the GOP candidate. I guess he was kicked off the ballot and ran a write-in campaign?
38th Ward - Tom Caravette came in 2nd with 22.2%. I think there WILL be a runoff here, as the top RAT got 47%
43rd Ward - Bita Buenrostro was the GOP-backed candidate. She came in 6th of 9th place, with 3.0%. Runoff will be between two liberal RATs.
On a related note, our local GOP organization in the 'burbs unofficially backed Anne Schaible in the 19th ward, as she was a self described "Independent" voter and did not support the RAT machine. She came in 2nd, but the machine RAT O'Shea got 61% so there will be no runoff.
Scott Waguespack
Danny Davis Jr.
Molly Phelan
Liza Madigan
Howard B. Brookins
Michele Obama
Ameya Pawar
Dan Hynes III
Ariel E. Reboyras
Luis A. Guiterrez
;-)
(Even the RATs have some Crook County judge out in the suburbs named "Jim Ryan"!)