April 29, 2020
THOU SHALT NOT DEVIATE: KALISH PUNISHED FOR ABORTION NON-VOTE, AND LOSES IN 16TH DIST.
There is a humongous difference between over overdoing and undoing, as appointed state representative Mark Kalish (D-16) learned to his immense chagrin on March 17. Kalish, an ordained rabbi, lost to Denyse Wang Stoneback by 1,950 votes, despite raising a whopping $734,397 during 2019-20. What Kalish overdid in fundraising was offset by what Kalish undid by his 2019 vote on the Illinois Reproductive Health Act, which codified abortion rights. Kalish voted “present” – an “act of conscience,” he said – and SB 25 got 64 House votes, 4 more than needed for passage. “My vote was irrelevant,” said Kalish. “It passed anyway.” But it was very relevant back in Rabbi Kalish's Skokie/50th Ward 16th Dist. THOU SHALT NOT DEVIATE from political correctness, even on a matter of "conscience." He did, and he lost. Full Article...
April 22, 2020
AMID PROLONGED COVID-19 CRISIS, 2023 ALDERMANIC FIELDS BEGIN TO FORM
Rahm Emanuel said that a "crisis is a terrible thing to waste." COVID-19 will last well into 2022-23 -- first to quell it, and then to repair the economic damage. The process will realign politics economically, with the clamoring "have-nots" dominating the "haves." Not only does serious income redistribution loom, but also property redistribution through confiscatory taxation. A Socialist, Ald. Carlos Ramirez-Rosa (35th), will run for Chicago mayor in 2023. Aldermanic fields are already forming in the 41st, 45th, 40th, 33rd and 38th wards. Uncertainty is an opportunity, especially for the left. Full Article...
April 15, 2020
MARTWICK AND LaPOINTE BOTH UNDER-PERFORM IN PRIMARY, BUT SQUEAK OUT WINS
“I’ve got a whole lot of work to do,” conceded state Senator Rob Martwick (D-10). He’s got that right. Despite raising in excess of $700,000 since Oct. 1 and spending close to $400,000 through March 17, the appointed senator beat Chicago cop Danny O’Toole with 52.7 percent. The final, official tally was 17,407-14,568, a margin of 2,839 votes. Martwick, who faces re-election in 2022, won because of his money, his mailings (14), his union endorsements (cop union FOP found both he and O’Toole “qualified”), his hardcore leftist base concentrated in the south end of the 45th Ward and the east end of the 38th Ward, and especially the fact that O’Toole, while campaigning relentlessly door-to-door in the 41st Ward, lacked both campaign cash and a ground game outside his 41st Ward base. He raised about $30,000, and had just one districtwide mailing, which was a piggyback with state’s attorney candidate Donna More. O’Toole will be back. In the 19th House District, it’s hard to tell the winner from the whiners. But one can be somewhat impressed by Lindsey LaPointe’s 45.2 percent victory. The appointed state representative won Martwick’s former seat 7,295-5,979-2,865 over Patti Vasquez and Duplechin. The conventional wisdom is that Chicago cop Duplechin was the “spoiler,” inasmuch as the combined anti-LaPointe vote was 54.8 percent. Duplechin said late-February polls showed all three candidates were within four percent, all bunched around 25 percent, with a quarter undecided. Full Article...
April 8, 2020
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