PeavyTime Posted February 11, 2011 Share Posted February 11, 2011 QUOTE (BigSqwert @ Feb 10, 2011 -> 12:10 PM) So every time you vote for someone it's for the person that is polling #1? This is a completely different situation as runoffs are not a part of most elections. You can vote for whoever you want, but Rahm is going to win and a runoff is a waste of money that we don't have. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Y2HH Posted February 11, 2011 Share Posted February 11, 2011 QUOTE (PeavyTime @ Feb 10, 2011 -> 07:51 PM) This is a completely different situation as runoffs are not a part of most elections. You can vote for whoever you want, but Rahm is going to win and a runoff is a waste of money that we don't have. Because THAT will stop them from spending it! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BigSqwert Posted February 22, 2011 Share Posted February 22, 2011 (edited) Can anyone find a progressive guide for voting today? I can't find one for the life of me. EDIT: Never mind. There's only 4 offices on the ballot. Edited February 22, 2011 by BigSqwert Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NorthSideSox72 Posted February 22, 2011 Author Share Posted February 22, 2011 Voting underway. Found these tidbits on the Trib election blog, thought they were funny enough to share... Voters were turned away from the New Heritage Cathedral at 5848 S. Princeton Ave. after the pastor overslept. The 20th Ward polling place opened 50 minutes late and will likely be the only voting spot in the city to remain open late tonight, said Langdon Neal, chairman of the election commissioners board. Neal also said that two elections judges were stripped of their responsibilities, one for showing up drunk and the other for heatedly arguing with firefighters over the placement of their emergency vehicles inside the polling place, which happened to be a fire station. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
iamshack Posted February 22, 2011 Share Posted February 22, 2011 QUOTE (NorthSideSox72 @ Feb 22, 2011 -> 03:13 PM) Voting underway. Found these tidbits on the Trib election blog, thought they were funny enough to share... If this wasn't from today, I would have thought it from 1885 or something...too funny. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HuskyCaucasian Posted February 23, 2011 Share Posted February 23, 2011 @cnnbrk - CNN projects former Obama Chief of Staff Rahm #Emanuel has won the Chicago mayoral election, avoiding runoff Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RockRaines Posted February 23, 2011 Share Posted February 23, 2011 The people at the bus stop were fairly positive they were in line for some reparations Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
southsider2k5 Posted February 23, 2011 Share Posted February 23, 2011 Ugh. The people of Chicago are such sheep Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NorthSideSox72 Posted February 23, 2011 Author Share Posted February 23, 2011 QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ Feb 23, 2011 -> 08:52 AM) Ugh. The people of Chicago are such sheep I disagree. Well I mean, some people are. But honestly, I am convinced that Emmanuel was really the only candidate that had a reasonable chance to be effective in the job. Chico maybe, but not as much. The others, forget about it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Balta1701 Posted February 23, 2011 Share Posted February 23, 2011 QUOTE (NorthSideSox72 @ Feb 23, 2011 -> 01:57 PM) I disagree. Well I mean, some people are. But honestly, I am convinced that Emmanuel was really the only candidate that had a reasonable chance to be effective in the job. Chico maybe, but not as much. The others, forget about it. The issue now with this election is...no one really has a clue what Emmanuel's politics regarding Chicago's fiscal issues are. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bmags Posted February 23, 2011 Share Posted February 23, 2011 well it's clear that chico probably wouldn't have asked for much concessions on pensions. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Balta1701 Posted February 23, 2011 Share Posted February 23, 2011 QUOTE (bmags @ Feb 23, 2011 -> 02:45 PM) well it's clear that chico probably wouldn't have asked for much concessions on pensions. "Chicago Aldermen flee to Wisconsin..." Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NorthSideSox72 Posted February 23, 2011 Author Share Posted February 23, 2011 QUOTE (Balta1701 @ Feb 23, 2011 -> 01:31 PM) The issue now with this election is...no one really has a clue what Emmanuel's politics regarding Chicago's fiscal issues are. He's actually made some specific policy ideas known, though he's also been vague in other areas. Seems like this main approach will be to pass a few things he knows he can get through the Council easily at first, and in the meantime, try to breakdown the Council's power structure to set up the pieces for him to have Daley-like run of it. That will take time, and its no guarantee he will be successful. Also, remember folks, in terms of enacting policy and fiscal changes, Chicago is actually a strong-Council system. No one thinks of it that way because Daley had so carefully and powerfully set up the council to lay down for him, but that was Daley's own doing - not the nature of the system. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RockRaines Posted February 23, 2011 Share Posted February 23, 2011 QUOTE (NorthSideSox72 @ Feb 23, 2011 -> 12:57 PM) I disagree. Well I mean, some people are. But honestly, I am convinced that Emmanuel was really the only candidate that had a reasonable chance to be effective in the job. Chico maybe, but not as much. The others, forget about it. Thats the thing, you had a handful of complete morons come out of the woodwork to run and then had one guy with an impressive business and political resume. There really wasnt much of a choice. I guess we could have elected CMB and had her call the Wisconsin Gov a rapist crackhead. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BigSqwert Posted February 23, 2011 Share Posted February 23, 2011 QUOTE (RockRaines @ Feb 23, 2011 -> 04:05 PM) Thats the thing, you had a handful of complete morons come out of the woodwork to run. Plural? Who were the other complete morons? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RockRaines Posted February 23, 2011 Share Posted February 23, 2011 QUOTE (BigSqwert @ Feb 23, 2011 -> 04:09 PM) Plural? Who were the other complete morons? Pretty much the entire ballot. Anyone who mentioned reparations from slavery, anyone who calls someone else a crackhead and rapist, anyone who states they will still work in their church while sitting in office, are all morons. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BigSqwert Posted February 23, 2011 Share Posted February 23, 2011 QUOTE (RockRaines @ Feb 23, 2011 -> 04:12 PM) Pretty much the entire ballot. Anyone who mentioned reparations from slavery, anyone who calls someone else a crackhead and rapist, anyone who states they will still work in their church while sitting in office, are all morons. Which candidates said those things? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NorthSideSox72 Posted February 24, 2011 Author Share Posted February 24, 2011 In addition to CMB, Dock Walls was his usual waste of space. I never learned enough about Watkins to say for sure, but she was certainly pretty underqualified. Chico, Rahm and Del Valle were real candidates, though Del Valle seemed kind of a wimp. That left Rahm and Chico as the only real candidates. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Texsox Posted February 24, 2011 Share Posted February 24, 2011 Did I read correctly that CMB said someday Chicago will elect its *first* woman mayor? Jane Byrne says hello. The onnly thing better is if she said someday Chicago would elect its first black mayor. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Balta1701 Posted February 24, 2011 Share Posted February 24, 2011 This is a cool map of the vote by precinct. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NorthSideSox72 Posted February 24, 2011 Author Share Posted February 24, 2011 QUOTE (Balta1701 @ Feb 24, 2011 -> 01:48 PM) This is a cool map of the vote by precinct. Far NW and SW sides tend to be heavily populated by cops and firefigthers and paramedics, who all endorsed Chico because Chico looked like the candidate least likely to do anything about pensions. SE side, I have no idea why that was so heavily Chico. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bmags Posted February 24, 2011 Share Posted February 24, 2011 QUOTE (Tex @ Feb 24, 2011 -> 12:22 PM) Did I read correctly that CMB said someday Chicago will elect its *first* woman mayor? Jane Byrne says hello. The onnly thing better is if she said someday Chicago would elect its first black mayor. Haha, she did indeed say that. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Texsox Posted February 25, 2011 Share Posted February 25, 2011 QUOTE (bmags @ Feb 24, 2011 -> 02:16 PM) Haha, she did indeed say that. OMG. She can't be that clueless, is she? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Harry Chappas Posted February 25, 2011 Share Posted February 25, 2011 QUOTE (NorthSideSox72 @ Feb 24, 2011 -> 02:07 PM) Far NW and SW sides tend to be heavily populated by cops and firefigthers and paramedics, who all endorsed Chico because Chico looked like the candidate least likely to do anything about pensions. SE side, I have no idea why that was so heavily Chico. Hegewisch and the SE side is heavy city worker as well. According to that map Rahm won Mt. Greenwood. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BigSqwert Posted February 25, 2011 Share Posted February 25, 2011 QUOTE (Balta1701 @ Feb 24, 2011 -> 01:48 PM) This is a cool map of the vote by precinct. I'm pretty sure I'm smack dab in the middle of the orange island of Del Valle. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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