The Wall Street Journal journalist Jason L. Riley cited Wirepoints’ Matt Rosenberg in his new piece about the Chicago mayoral election. Matt said that next week’s election may well hinge on Hispanic voters and their opinions on the city’s crime wave.
Read the WSJ editorial: Chicago May Elect a Sensible Mayor
In the first round of voting, which featured nine candidates, all but two of whom were black, Mr. Vallas led with 32.9% of the votes, and Mr. Johnson placed a distant second with 21.6%. The lone Hispanic candidate, Jesús García, won just 13.7% of the vote. Matt Rosenberg, a local journalist and author of a book about the city’s multi-decade decline, “What Next, Chicago?,” told me that Mr. García’s voters may well determine who prevails in the runoff race next week.
Read more from Wirepoints:
- The intersection of Hispanics and Chicago’s crime wave may determine the mayoral election
- Brandon Johnson’s views on tolerance for violence and defunding police are absolutely clear. Here are his own words.
- Lori Lightfoot gets the boot in murder-capital Chicago. What does that mean for mayors of other homicide hot spots?
- Don’t let violence prevention programs become a fatal distraction in the quest to make Chicago safe again
- Chicago, New Orleans were the nation’s murder capitals in 2022 – A Wirepoints survey of America’s 75 largest cities
Expect no retraction or apology. This what they do.
The state’s existing buyout program for its own pensions is the precedent for Chicago, which should be a warning: Look out for similar exaggerated claims and shoddy analysis.
Or they may not elect a sensible mayor. Would Preckwinkle have been “worse” than Lori?
The “True Blue” Dems will have a week after election day to find uponed bags of votes. They’ll find as many as needed to put Brandon in charge – the CTU will demand it.
It’s the Chicago Dem way.
The Teacher’s Union army can be compared to the Red army. This will be the most chaotic, evil, and dishonest election in the history of Chicago and that’s saying a lot considering past Chicago elections.
The students are the Red Guard. The pink haired illegal immigrant transgender lesbians will be running the camps and deciding your fate for being insufficiently committed to the progressive cause.
It’s difficult to accept, but after decades of population loss, the crazies outnumber the normies. Just the other day I opened a box on the floor of my mother’s closet and found a box of pictures and documents of my family’s history. In that box were pictures and other papers documenting my ancestors history in Chicago. My most distant Chicago relative left the old world for the new world and landed in Chicago in the 1860’s. They survived the Great Chicago Fire, they likely attended the Columbia Exposition and walked through the same Field Museum my family visits. They’re buried… Read more »
“Everyone leaves.”
Feel free to join us when you are ready. Your mother and son are also welcome.
It’s one thing to leave for a great job opportunity or to retire in the sun in your ‘golden years’ However, most people are leaving IL because they are tired of the abuse – they are being driven out.
Similar story for my relatives in Detroit and Michigan. Nobody has lived in Detroit since the 70s and about 25% have left Michigan too.
When they first started coming to Detroit a century ago Detroit was the boom town of the country.
Expect ballot harvesting and you know who getting ‘elected’
The free stuff army will be out in droves to vote for the candidate offering the most free goodies…isn’t that how it always works in Chicago?
The voters will decide and the voters are responsible for the choices that they make. Do they want less police and more socialism or do they prefer a moderate? More taxes and spending on progressive dreams or more taxes and spending on servicing current debt. We shall see. Either way people should stop being victims and own their choices. It won’t be the fault of newspapers, teachers, police, Trump or anyone else.
Quite profound stuff there. You really tapped into the zeitgeist. And broke new ground. Really avant-garde commentary on personal responsibility. I acknowledge you. “People should stop being the victim and own their own choices”. Where have you been fool, unless you are trolling? The Illinois political machine breeds compliant, reliant, hysterical, sentimental automatons. This is social engineering.
We all get emotional. I also get hysterical. I don’t let this inform my vote.
Yes, a real thinker
Can’t help but wonder how many families are on the fence about staying or leaving, waiting to see how this election turns out. Same goes for Chicago police. (I suppose the suburbs may benefit depending on who is elected.) Detroit has shrunk 33.0% since the year 2000. As of 2021, the population was still declining. Michigan was/is a healthier financial state than Illinois is today, yet it hasn’t been able to save Detroit. How many people in Detroit today regret not having left 20+ years ago? I don’t know if Wirepoints has ever done a deep dive into the lessons… Read more »
Michigan just screwed its recovery up big time by getting rid of the right to work laws while OH and IN are business friendly. The unions destroyed michigan’s auto industry last century and Dictator Gretchen “No, you can’t buy garden seed” Witmer is going to let the unions destroy what little remains this century. Every company in the country should be looking at Stellantis’ plant closure in Belvidere, IL and it’s opening of a new plant in Kokomo, IN as a wake up call: large multinational corporations don’t care much for your union friendly labor laws, and in the long… Read more »
I also noticed that headline about Michigan getting rid of right to work. Living in Tennessee, a right to work state, when states like Michigan (or Illinois) do something incredibly stupid financially, its generally good for me. In this case, it might be great for Indiana. There’s nothing like sitting between 2 fools to make yourself look like a genius.
Lincoln said something similar…..
“It’s better to be thought a fool than open your mouth and remove all doubt.”
After 80+ years of operating as a Pension Ponzi scheme, and 50+ years as operating as a Ponzi Scheme Pensions Paid First thanks to the Ponzi Scheme Protection Clause, all the while jacking up salaries and legislative pension benefit hikes, layering retiree healthcare on top, enabled by an opaque shady legislative process, why bother putting more money to a Ponzi scheme.
Ponzi schemes by definition always need more money.
The ComEd trial is a glimpse into the labriynth inner workings of the deep, wide monstrosity that encompasses Illinois politics and government.
As long as that fat, very fat, pension check arrives on time too f’ing bad. Screw Chicago voters, screw liberal democrats, screw Cook County, pay me and I hope it hurts.
Up voted you on the the name alone, Color Sgt.sir! Zulu made Michael Caine a star!