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| KELLY: Now Rep.-elect |
It’s
all a matter of numbers.
THE
COOK COUNTY clerk’s office reported Tuesday night that with only about five
precincts left (and 47,715 votes cast), Kelly of south suburban Matteson had 79
percent of the vote.
And
in the Far South Side neighborhoods of Chicago that are in the Illinois Second
Congressional District, Kelly took 92 percent of the 13,190 votes that were
cast, according to the Chicago Board of Election commissioners.
That
was an anticipated outcome. Which means that all of Republican challenger Paul
McKinley’s rants and rages about the “corrupt Chicago machine” were nothing
more than comic relief – before he withers away into the ranks of no-name
candidates that the GOP put up to filling a ballot spot for Chicago-area
elections.
The
Will and Kankakee county portions of that congressional district just had so
few people that they couldn’t overcome the urban lead.
SO
THE FACT that McKinley “won” Will County? Irrelevant! Forty-three percent of
only 8,315 votes isn’t much, particularly when Kelly herself got all of 42
percent for herself from the land around Crete, Monee and Peotone.
And
now, Kelly can go to Capitol Hill – where she will become the most worthless
form of political person in existence. A freshman congressman in the minority
party.
All
that rhetoric she spouted about pushing for strict gun control measures (and
emphasized Tuesday by having the family of deceased teenage girl Hadiya
Pendleton with her at her Election Night celebration)?
It
will fall on the deaf ears of House Speaker John Boehner, R-Ohio, and his
political allies in Congress.
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