I'm in the 33rd and attended the forum where the 3 candidates stated their case. Katie Sieracki seemed WAAAAY more knowledgable and had more concrete ideas than the other two. She's also the longshot. She seemed to share the same ideals with Rodriguez, but lacked the fucking ginormous army of volunteers. I'm voting for Sieracki and you should too if that's your ward.Deb Mell is PURE Chicago.

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.

kerble wrote:I am not exaggerating. I believe we've gotten almost 30 full color, double-sided, glossy flyers in the mail from Yu Dietrich in the past two weeks. Three or four every day. Fucking gross. Didn't realize she was Fishman funded until I talked to my neighbor yesterday. Fuck her. No fucking way.Whoa. She's the wife of a guy Shirley went to grad school with (where the Dieterich part of her name comes from). He was nice from what I remember but that's all I got. Sounds like she fits the Chicago political mold jeff\_fox wrote:Deb Mell is PURE Chicago.Yep. "Hey look: we found 500 tie-breaking absentee votes at the last minute!" Machine scum.

ldopa\_chicago wrote:35 - Carlos Ramirez-Rosa (Yu Dietrich is Fishman-funded, fuck her)Noticed a few days ago that Fishman's been putting up ads in the windows of the empty storefronts he owns for Yu Dietrich throughout Logan/Avondale. Fucking classic.

four\_oclocker\_2 wrote:ldopa\_chicago wrote:35 - Carlos Ramirez-Rosa (Yu Dietrich is Fishman-funded, fuck her)Noticed a few days ago that Fishman's been putting up ads in the windows of the empty storefronts he owns for Yu Dietrich throughout Logan/Avondale. Fucking classic.At the 33rd debate, Katie used this for a sick burn: Empty storefronts benefit no one...except for the incumbent who gets to plaster them with campaign signs.

I am not exaggerating. I believe we've gotten almost 30 full color, double-sided, glossy flyers in the mail from Yu Dietrich in the past two weeks. Three or four every day. Fucking gross. Didn't realize she was Fishman funded until I talked to my neighbor yesterday. Fuck her. No fucking way.

Rosa is my alderman now. In addition to being a solid candidate, his office are the only people who are able to get my fucking recycling bin needs actually taken care of so he has my vote.

R.F.F. wrote:mrcancelled 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.Ah damn! I just got home from early voting to read this. After reading through his website and a few other sources, including the guide that FM ldopa\_chicago posted, I ended up going with Matt. My fiancee is voting tomorrow and I'll show her your post. Eileen Dordek and Jeff Jenkins both sound really promising.