From what the local news feeds are saying, it’s a record low turnout for voters.

I guess there’s a lot with the same sentiment:
The choices suck.

still counting votes, but right now

Lighfoot is the front runner (17.4 %)

Preckwinkle 16%

Daley 14.8 %

https://chicago.suntimes.com/n...ection-2019-results/


update:

Daley concedes

Gery Chico, Susana Mendoza Amara Enyia and Willie Wilson have all conceded.

Chicago is FUCKED.

Joyce, McCarthy and Vallas pulled votes away from Daley.
Not saying Daley would be a better choice, but WAY BETTER than Lightfoot or Preckwinkle.

Looks like a runoff between Lightfoot and Preckwinkle.

Chicago is fucked.


The rest of you can point and laugh as this place quickly heads toward "Thunderdome" status. It's not a matter of "If", it's a matter of "When".

note: Lightfoot is a DEM. Don't know what the "R" after her name means

I think the "R' means she is in the runoff vote

later updates show an R after Preckwinkle's name

We thought it was BAD when Harold Washington got elected, this is WAY worse!

I wonder what they have for improvement ideas?

I’m sure the budget is totally upside down.

Mixed feelings: I am somewhat glad to see that Chicago has let go of the Daley dynasty, but he would have been the least worst choice of the top tier candidates.

I predict that Preckwinkle will take the runoff handily.

Chicago is doomed, but at least that get to say they elected a black woman mayor for the first time. So they got that going for them.

That’s a huge job and by the looks of some of their current jobs most of them have no business even throwing their hat in the ring. Clerk, activist, nonprofit. Really.

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Mixed feelings: I am somewhat glad to see that Chicago has let go of the Daley dynasty, but he would have been the least worst choice of the top tier candidates.

Yep. At least he realized they need a constitutional amendment to address the pension problems.

Chicago Poised To Elect Its First African-American Female Mayor, Send Indicted Alderman Back To Office

February 27, 2019

Chicago will elect its first African-American female mayor, after a strange, 14-candidate race came to an end Tuesday in the city primary.


Both candidates, Cook County board president Toni Preckwinkle and former Police Oversight Board chairwoman Lori Lightfoot, are considered "outside" candidates, with few attachments to Chicago's fabled Democratic machine, but with deep ties to the city's far left, progressive elements.

The fourteen-way race was in a dead heat until nearly the end, with polls predicting varied outcomes, none of which played out Tuesday night. Lightfoot, a relative unknown and newcomer to Chicago elections — though not to Chicago politics — was the city's top vote-getter, commanding around 17% of the vote. Preckwinkle, a more well-known commodity often maligned for instituting the city's disastrous (and now repealed) "sugary drinks tax," came in second with 16%, according to the Chicago Tribune's official election results.

Most surprising, though, was the result for former President Barack Obama's chief of staff Bill Daley, whose last name is on nearly every building and public park in the city. Bill Daley is a relative of long-serving mayors Richard J. and Richard M. Daley, and was expected to do well in the mayoral race.

After last night's votes were counted, Daley didn't even pick up traditional Democratic (and Daley) strongholds, leaving him in third, with only 15% of the vote. Those went to Jerry Joyce, who barely finished with 7%.

Both Preckwinkle and Lightfood are progressives, even by Chicago standards, and ran far to the left of current mayor Rahm Emanuel. Both had platforms that embraced an elected school board — something most mayors hesitate to do, lest the city's education system fall fully into union control — civilian oversight of the police department, and a tax scheme designed to correct "wealth inequality" within the city.

But they both also represent a landmark achievement in diversity for the city; come April 2, no matter who wins the final mayoral election, Chicago will have its first African-American female mayor. Only one woman, Jane Byrne, has served in the office previously.

The vote also crossed racial lines, in one of America's most segregated cities. Both Preckwinkle and Lightfoot won big on the city's wealthier north side, particularly among leftists who live along the lakefront in some of the city's established middle class and upper-middle class neighborhoods.

There were no Republican contenders in the (technically) non-partisan race. Only about 10% of Chicago's population considers itself Republican, and even those estimates are probably high.

Among Tuesday night's victories, though, one, in particular, stood out: that of powerful 14th ward alderman Ed Burke, who commanded more than 50% of the vote despite being under active indictment by the Federal Bureau of Investigation, according to the Chicago Sun-Times. In January, Burke was indicted on a federal extortion charge, and federal agents have warned that more charges may be coming.

The south side alderman's constituents gave him four more years to add to his nearly half-century rule, even though he is facing a potential prison sentence of 20 years or more. When asked by a Sun-Times reporter whether he'd be able to fulfill his entire term in office, Burke refused to answer.

https://www.dailywire.com/news...erican-emily-zanotti

Wait- is that a real name? Preckwinkle??

Preckwinkle??
Yep, Preckwinkle.
She's the one that gave Chicago their "sugary beverages tax"... which was such a disaster that they actually repealed it.


She was the Chair of the City Council.
Which is now set to go even further leftist:

Up to 5 socialists could join City Council after election success Tuesday

If their success on Tuesday carries over to the April runoff elections, there could be as many as five members of the Democratic Socialists of America on the City Council this spring — which would be the most on the Chicago governing body in more than a century.

Members’ victories in two aldermanic races and ballot success putting them in three runoff contests have already led to talk of an incoming socialist caucus on the council.

“The oligarchs are shaking in their boots tonight,” Ald. Carlos Ramirez-Rosa (35th) told a crowd gathered Tuesday night at Puebla Restaurant to celebrate his re-election against challenger Amanda Yu Dieterich. “Our continued organizing and movement-building over the last four years is paying dividends and it appears to be a total transformation of political power at city hall from the bottom up.”

Rosa is one of the members of the Chicago Democratic Socialists of America (DSA) who won outright on Tuesday. New member Daniel La Spata also upset Ald. Proco “Joe” Moreno in the Near Northwest Side’s 1st Ward.

Socialist Rosanna Rodríguez-Sánchez will head to April’s runoff against incumbent Ald. Deb Mell in the 33rd Ward. Rodríguez-Sánchez broke into tears of joy several times at her watch party at Chief O’Neils in Avondale after hearing she’d earned the most votes in the three-way race.

The success of the group — which is not technically a party but a “political and activist organization” — was proof that the city’s machine politics have been broken, she said.

“Chicago had a way of doing politics and I feel like that died tonight. The city’s dinosaurs are done. I’m very very confident that I’m going to win” in April, she said.

Byron Sigcho-Lopez, who heads the Pilsen Alliance, credited the group for helping him in the race for the seat vacated by retiring Ald. Danny Solis (25th). Sigcho-Lopez will face Alex Acevado in April.

“DSA members were instrumental and I’m thankful to the volunteers who spent hundreds — thousands — of hours campaigning,” he said. “We’ve had a rubber stamp City Council beholden to corporate interests and that’s why the DSA candidates resonated with people tonight. It’s our job to rebuild the trust in public officials.”

https://chicago.suntimes.com/n...ouncil-election-dsa/

A good starting list for an honest and aggressive US Attorney.

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Originally posted by ChuckWall:
A good starting list for an honest and aggressive US Attorney.

Is there one?

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Originally posted by Elk Hunter:

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Originally posted by ChuckWall:
A good starting list for an honest and aggressive US Attorney.

Is there one?

Yes but in Chicago, the workload and long hours burn them out in no time. It is like stepping on cockroaches.......they either come back or replaced by a relative.

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Originally posted by parabellum:
Wait- is that a real name? Preckwinkle??

Yup...

This is one of my choices:

https://sigforum.com/eve/forums...935/m/9900046134/p/1


But Chicago is about to be "sooo progressive"!
(Excuse me, I gotta throw up again)

Like a turd to the sesspool, So will Rahm probably go back to D.C as a lobbyist?

Maybe we’ll see the city if Chicago put ‘fighting climate change’ as the top priority? That’s what the DEQ(DNR) in MI decided was best to prioritize.

The new MI head of the DEQ is a former ‘green energy’ lobbyist. She’ll be milking the taxpayer to funnel $$ toward the solar & wind offerings from companies previously beholden to. While at it time for a name change to EGLE.

Lightfoot won easily with 75% of the vote (30ish% turnout). So it looks like Chicago wins the prize for mayor with the most intersectional victimhood points. Apparently, they were one point shy of getting the US capitol changed to Chicago. Maybe she can become a trans-man.

Also, it looks like 5 socialists won seats on the city council. Socialists now outnumber the 3 Republicans on the council.

(I'll bet you didn't know and would never have guessed that there were 3 Republican aldermen in Chicago).

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Chicago wins the prize for mayor with the most intersectional victimhood points.

She may actually be less corrupt and the best choice of the remaining two.

Lightfoot said that as mayor, she would focus on investing in neighborhoods on the West and South Sides and bring transparency and accountability to City Hall. She also said she also wants to end City Hall corruption and restore people's faith in government.

Preckwinkle, who leads Cook County’s Democratic Party, said that mayor “is not an entry-level job” and that “it's easy to talk about change. It's hard to actually do it.”

Both women expressed support for a casino in downtown Chicago, and for changing the state's income tax system to a graduated tax, in which higher earners are taxed at a higher rate.

Lightfoot was endorsed by the Chicago Sun-Times and Chicago Tribune newspapers, as well as U.S. Reps. Jesus “Chuy” Garcia and Robin Kelly, according to NBC Chicago.

Preckwinkle had the endorsement of several unions, including the Service Employees International Union state council, the Teamsters joint council and the Local 700 and other unions, as well as U.S. Reps. Jan Schakowsky, Bobby Rush and Danny Davis, NBC Chicago reported. Chance the Rapper also endorsed her.

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/u...-black-woman-n990266