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| Still have my sticker |
Anita
is the one whom it seems will wind up taking the fall for the police shooting
death of Laquan McDonald, as her opponent, Kim Foxx, managed to get a serious
voter margin over her.
SO
MUCH SO that people can’t argue the presence of a third candidate in the
Democratic primary took votes for Anita – Foxx got a solid majority. With
particularly strong voter turnout for her in the South Side and surrounding
suburbs.
In
short, the portions of metro Chicago that have majority African-American
populations where people were outraged over the shooting death of McDonald that
got captured on video.
The
people who have been screaming for Mayor Rahm Emanuel to resign and are
frustrated to realize he could care less what they think will have to settle
for defeating Alvarez’ re-election bid (she was seeking her third term as head
of the county prosecutorial office).
Let’s
hope they remain pleased if, in a couple of years from now, the criminal trial
of the police officer who shot and killed McDonald (he faces multiple counts of
murder) does not go the way they want and the cop gets acquitted (which is
always a real possibility).
BUT
FOR THOSE people with the Beatles’ song “Revolution” running through their
minds, I’d say “Pipe down!” Because dumping Alvarez – while significant – is about
as big as things got on this Election Day.
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| FOXX: The new state's attorney |
U.S.
Senate hopeful Andrea Zopp, who was hoping that the same people who voted Foxx
into the Democratic nomination for state’s attorney would also support her,
didn’t do so well.
Her
numbers were so weak that the various newsgathering organizations rushed to
declare Rep. Tammy Duckworth, D-Ill., the winner for the Senate right when the
polls closed at 7 p.m.
And
as for “the Bern,” Sen. Sanders of Vermont would seem to be nothing more than a
mild case of suntan in Illinois and elsewhere. For it seems Democrats in this
state preferred Hillary Clinton. Then again, so did Democrats in all the states
where ballots were cast on Tuesday.
HILLARY,
THE PREFERRED candidate of the Democratic Party establishment, continues her
progress toward gaining the presidential nomination for the November general
election.
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| CLINTON: She didn't get 'berned' in Illinois |
While
the one-time “Party of Lincoln” continues to shame the reputation of “Honest
Abe” with its desire to nominate obnoxious New York real estate developer
Donald Trump for a bid for the White House.
If
anything, the intriguing part of Tuesday’s activity may well be the turnout.
It
wasn’t that big in Chicago proper – Board of Election Commissioners officials
say it was less than the 53 percent of registered voters who turned out in 2008
when hometown boy Barack Obama first ran for president.
BUT
IT WAS high in the suburban areas – so much so that the Washington Post made a
point of acknowledging the desire of our suburbanites to make sure to cast
their ballots.
For
what it’s worth, I have one Facebook friend who tells the story of how his
parents did not cast their ballots because the lines were so long at their
polling place in suburban Buffalo Grove and they couldn’t wait.
While
I know my own parents in suburban Homewood saw the long lines of would-be
voters waiting to use the touch-screen machines to cast ballots, and wound up
deciding to fill out paper ballots instead, rather than wait in line.
All
in all, it makes me grateful I used an early voting center to cast my votes a
couple of weeks ago. Particularly since any attempt to consider Tuesday’s
outcome revolutionary gets dumped all over by the outcome for Illinois House
Speaker Michael Madigan, D-Chicago.
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| Da winnah, and still champeen! |
NOT
ONLY DID he solidly crush the challenger who received campaign funding from
people loyal to Gov. Bruce Rauner, his preferred candidate of Julianna Stratton
managed to crush state Rep. Ken Dunkin, D-Chicago – the legislator whose
refusal to support Madigan on several issues undermined the so-called “veto
proof” majority that Democrats use as their club over Rauner’s head.
Political
retribution was achieved. And how revolutionary can things be if the big winner
for the night is the high-and-mighty “Mr. Speaker?”
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