Chicago Municipal Elections 2019
11mrcancelled wrote:I'm in the 47th ward. I've spent some time reading up on all of the candidates and watched recordings of a couple of their forums... they're all saying the same shit, but it's generally good shit, so I suppose that's good, but there's not a lot of distinction between the candidates so I've done my best to look into their backgrounds. The two who stood out to me as folks who might actually accomplish this shit were Jeff Jenkins and Angie Maloney. Eileen Dordek also seems cool.These are the candidates, copied and pasted from some website, because there's a lot:- Eileen Dordek, a social-worker and women and LGBTQ activist.- Michael Negron, Mayor Rahm Emanuel s former policy chief.- Angie Maloney, a CPS music teacher and organizer.- Matt Martin, a civil rights attorney at the Illinois Attorney General s Office.- Jeff Jenkins, a co-founder of Midnight Circus in the Parks and a small business owner.- Heather Way Kitzes, a former director of the Lakeview Chamber of Commerce and current manager of government and neighborhood relations for the Chicago Cubs.- Thomas Schwartzers, a Chicago firefighter/paramedic and former police officer.I'll be ok with anyone but the Rahm guy, the Cubs lady, or the ex-cop. Side note: I posted about this in the lefty podcasts thread, but check out Chicago Reader's Back Room Deal pod if you want to hear some good talks on the mayoral and ward elections.ldopa\_chicago wrote:The Girl, I Guess list is really well informed and well explained:http://bit.ly/GirlIGuess2019 (link is to a Google Doc, not sure why it's distributed this way)This is great, thanks for posting this. Based on their info and endorsement of Matt Martin, I'll have to look further into him before Tuesday. Edit: I still have no idea who I'm voting for mayor-wise. I mean, it's Enyia or Preckwinkle for sure, but I'd like to do some more research.Hello fellow 47th warder- Eileen Dordek is great and is my first choice. Jeff Jenkins is also great. Fuck the Rahm guy and the cub's guy. Matt Martin has really disappointed me. He's on the local LSC of McPherson Elementary school and they recently selected a new principal. Matt and three other people on the LSC abstained from voting. They abstained from voting because they didn't like the selection process for the new principal- fair enough, but instead of using his platform to shine a light on the shady process (it's pretty shady) he did nothing. If he can't get one extra person on a local school council to vote with him about delaying a vote until more candidates were at least interviewed- how the hell is he going to get anything done at city hall? Happy to talk more about the particulars. I know Matt and he's a good guy, but this really changed my view of him.