Showdown in Chicago: Lightfoot vs. Preckwinkle

1. Am not sure to be right, but I'm not particularly satisfied. I don't like politics in the USA; not usually anyway. The future will tell us how all of this turns out.

2. FACT: Whoever becomes Mayor…those of us who truly care about our city and get involved will have a fight on our hands for all-four-years.

3. There is no enthusiasm for either candidate.

4. I really wish people and politicians would stop using the word "progressive" so flippantly. We have the internet, a keyboard, eyes, and a brain. It's pretty easy to determine this shit for ourselves.

5. I'm tired of the lesser evil political establishment!

6. VOTING PRECKWINKLE

7. I want Lori to win, But Im voting for Toni. Toni is friendly. At least she was back in 2003 – 2006 when I used to see her walking that ugly dog. Besides, I'd rather look at her for the next 4 years than Lori. This is why Im flipping my vote

8. Another Race baiter! To bad! Justice is never served when RACE /color /gender/cult /neighborhood etc! Always political, nothing to do with law! Eh!

9. Neither of these two are progressives. They have worked within the establishment and will continue to do so. They have no progressive fire in their bellies. I am so disappointed of the choices we're faced with. I voted early, and decided with the preckwinkle, just by the toss of a coin. They both stink and are non-deserving of the office of Mayor.

   Troy Laravier was my real choice for a progressive mayor.

10. Important report. Especially as I go to the polls tomorrow. Disappointing however in not hearing anything of Chicago's numerous and nefarious tax increment finance districts (TIFs). Ben Joravsky at the Chicago Reader, whom you can read online, does some terrific educating on these. They are complicated. In practice what they amount to among other things, is on the way out the door war-criminal Mayor Rahm Emanuel wants to bestow upon his already wealthy developer pals $1.3 billion for a Riverfront TIF grant in a rapidly gentrifying and already wealthy part of town. Even while Chicago has very serious economic crises. Emanuel's grift is contrary to the lawfully defined purpose of a TIF: to encourage development in blighted communities that wouldn't otherwise see any. In this regard several years ago Whole Foods received a $10 million TIF grant to build a store in a food desert on the south side of Chicago. Because Whole Foods, owned by Amazon, really needs the money.

11. The turnout for the mayor and alderman elections was 35%. That is just pathetic. More voters have to get out and vote.

12. Those two being black does not mean anything. As far as black people are concerned. Historically black people do worse under black politicians.

13. Chicago is an extremely corrupt & Racist City.

14. The fact that 2 establishment candidates are running off against each other. Regardless of their racial background. Should tell you everything. The Republicans rig things openly and with zeal. While the democrats rig elections with sly underhandedness. 2 lesser of 2 evils. Is a Democratic time honored tradition. But if we have learned anything from just the past 2 years and decades of such non choices. Is that there are no such things as lesser of 2 evils. Evil is just plain evil. And no amount of fake sugaring can make it anything other than EVIL. And if people have not learned this yet. Then we might as well just go get a gun and shoot ourselves. Because in the end a quick death is preferable to a slow and pain filled death of depression and disillusionment.

15. The reaction to murder by police is all I would need to make my choice. Any candidate who whitewashes or minimizes the crime does not deserve anyone's vote. How could Lightfoot be called a change agent when she was a prosecutor? How could either one be called "progressive"?

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