Clyde wrote:Who is everybody voting for today?It's all splitting hairs, and they'll both probably lose, but I ended up voting for Preckwinkle and Pawar. Alliteration?

Clyde wrote:Did all of the DSA-endorsed alderman won their races last night? I can't find anything definitive on Rossana Rodriguez-Sanchez but everything I have found suggests she won.She was up maybe 100 or so votes but don't underestimate the Mell family's ability to 'find' a bunch of last minute absentee ballots..

Did all of the DSA-endorsed alderman won their races last night? I can't find anything definitive on Rossana Rodriguez-Sanchez but everything I have found suggests she won.

I've admittedly paid little attention to the race but I'm surprised that PRF was nearly 100% for Preckwinkle, as it seemed like she was a product of the machine that has dominated Chicago politics. Could very well have been a media misperception but I'm curious why most folks didn't vote for Lightfoot. Firefox says "misperception" isn't a word, well I'm sticking with it...

Gotcha, thanks for the breakdown and links n&l!

noise&light wrote:I appreciate the fact that she acknowledged in her acceptance speech that work must be done on the relationship between the police and the polis. And this morning it was reported that she wants the city to spend less money paying settlements for bad cops. But how this will all play out, and what this really means, is yet to be determined.I'm fairly convinced she's going to focus on thwarting lawsuits and reducing payout to deserving people instead of focusing on putting more of the onus on the bad cops and reducing bad cops.