December 29, 2021
LEFTISTS COALESCE BEHIND RAMIREZ TO BEAT VILLEGAS IN 3RD CONGRESSIONAL DIST.
No one ever said it was going to be easy. At one point it seemed that it was going to be easy for Alderman Gilbert Villegas (36th). It was supposed to be a quick up-and-out - from Chicago's City Council to the U.S. House. He was supposed to clear out the field. Instead, it was the far Left, including those pesky democratic socialists, who cleared out the anti-Villegas field for state Representative Delia Ramirez (D-4), who wants to go to Washington as well and join Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez of New York, Ilhan Omar of Minnesota, Ayanna Pressley of Massachusetts, and Rashida Tlaib of Michigan. Also known as "The Squad." Villegas's task will be to not get less than 45 percent in any ward, to get 55-60 percent in his ward, and to get 55 percent in the 33rd Ward, where Clerk of Circuit Court Iris Martinez, the ward committeeperson, has endorsed him. Martinez wants to take out Rodriguez-Sanchez in 2023 and needs to prove her clout by delivering for Villegas. And the alderman must get at least 60 percent of the suburban vote. That's a 52-48 win in a 2-person race. It will be a nasty, negative race, but I think Villegas will prevail. Full Article...
December 22, 2021
GOV. PRITZKER ON CNN LIST FOR PRESIDENT IN 2024; KAEGI USES PROCEDURAL TRICK TO GET RE-SLATED
For those who cling to the illusion of Santa Claus, the Easter Bunny and the Tooth Fairy, here is another fantasy: Governor J.B. Pritzker as the Democratic nominee for president in 2024.They have broadcast a list of 11 potential 2024 replacements and Pritzker is ranked at number seven below vice president Kamala Harris, transportation secretary Pete Buttigieg, senators Elizabeth Warren (MA) and Amy Klobuchar (MN) and governors Phil Murphy (NJ) and Gretchen Whitmer (MI). But he finished ahead of governor Roy Cooper (NC), Stacey Abrams (GA), commerce secretary Gina Raimondo and former New Orleans mayor Mitch Landrieu. That's not much of an accomplishment, especially considering whom he finished behind.Never under-estimate the political value of arcane parliamentary procedure. It got Assessor Fritz Kaegi re-slated at the Democrats' Dec. 13-14 slate-making confab, much to the shock of Metropolitan Water Reclamation District (MWRD) president Kari Steele. She thought she had the support of party chair Toni Preckwinkle, and thought that was enough to get the weighted-vote majority of the 80 ward and township committeepersons needed to dump Kaegi. Full Article...
December 15, 2021
A 15TH HOUSE DISTRICT THROWBACK: JUST THREE MIDDLE-AGE WHITE GUYS
It's almost unbelievable. It's a political anomaly, a slap in the face of expectations of diversity ... a nearly extinct rarity that can now only be seen on Chicago's Northwest Side. The upcoming 2022 Democratic primary will have no identity politics, no gender factor and no sexual orientation angle. It looks like it's going to be just three White middle-aged guys seeking to replace another White guy, the recently-resigned state Representative John D'Amico in the Illinois 15th House District. So far, the declared candidates are Chicago firefighter Mike Kelly of Mayfair, who was appointed to the D'Amico vacancy on Nov. 23, Lemont Argonne National Laboratory operations manager Michael Rabbitt of Edgebrook, and Loop attorney Dan Cotter of Edgebrook. Full Article...
December 8, 2021
DEMOCRATIC SLATEMAKERS SET TO DUMP ASSESSOR KAEGI
To be “woke” or to be county assessor? To accurately assess property valuations, pander to the far-left obsessed county Democratic Party, or to get dumped? That is the conundrum of Cook County Assessor Fritz Kaegi, who is about to learn that no good deed goes unpunished. His GOOD DEED was to beat ethics-challenged Joe Berrios in the 2018 primary, but his “reforms” are not stopping – and are definitely contributing to — the rising property taxes for which he understandably gets the blame. Kaegi’s 2022 opponent Kari Steele promises to “put equity first” and “give relief to homeowners” while offering the tax dollars “necessary for the public services residents deserve.” Full Article...
December 1, 2021
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