Chicago Megathread: With CTU on strike, Lightfoot lays out her budget

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I wonder if that will creat any sort of opening for Black Lives Matter activist Ja'Mal Green.

Probably not; DeRay Mckesson was a thousand times more visible than Green and he got only like 4% in the primary.

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JaMal or bust.

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I've done zero research into the race as I live in Cook, not Chicago, but I bet any of these candidates would be better than Rahm.

Richard Daley’s corpse would be better than Rahm.

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Is Lewis healthy enough to mount a run?

Extremely doubtful, especially since she's down back as CTU head.

Gutierrez is out and has endorsed Chuy. Chuy is not yet officially in, but he met with Gutierrez and Munoz last week, so draw your own conclusions.

So he's running for Congress, but also running for Mayor?

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Why does a major American city elect its mayor in February

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*laughs in progressive*

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Are there any better sites for results than the Sun Times and Tribune? Both their pages suck.

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The 14th Ward will send Ed Burke's corpse to the council.

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Waguespack (influential Lightfoot backer) says he wants Daley instead of Preckwinkle in the runoff in order to show a contrast.

I'd rather get rid of Daley now tbh.

Yeah, don't want to play with fire.

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Lightfoot breaking away from Preckwinkle while Preckwinkle is breaking away from Daley. It's looking more and more Done.

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Daley concedes!!!

It's amazing because neither Wilson nor Mendoza straight-up conceded, instead saying they were waiting for absentees.

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WGN says Daley wasn't in top 3 among black voters and didn't lead Hispanic or white voters. That's the ball game.

Yeah WGN said Lightfoot and Daley were running even with white voters, which is shocking.

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Extremely surprising to see 1) Ramirez-Rosa endorsing Preckwinkle and 2) Preckwinkle endorsing Bernie.

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I’m still at awe how something like this could be possible, especially with historically terrible turnout across the board.

wouldn't you think low turnout would favor the candidate preferred by the groups with the highest turnout rates (ie white liberals)?

I guess, I thought that Conservatives would push it to be a Lightfoot v.s. Daley race.

There aren't very many conservatives. The fact is that Rahm won a lot of white liberal votes both times.

Daley had no path if he wasn't going to win with Latinx voters or white north siders. Add to it that he didn't even lock down the GIVEN - the far NW and SW sides. Joyce took a lot of those voters.

A true Jeb-like collapse.

He spent almost double what the next highest candidate spent.

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I find it hilarious that Jenaette Taylor stole Bobby Jindal's logo

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I was with Preckwinkle, because I trust sjoyce when it comes to Chicago, but I do like the sound of Lightfoot bringing the most odious members of the council to heel.