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* Check out this map of the precinct election results for Chicago mayor…
Legend…
Blue is for Emanuel (who won 2,087 precincts), red for Chico (410), orange for del Valle (47). Oh, and green for Carol Moseley Braun, but you can’t tell with her, since she won exactly one precinct. There were also 11 ties. (The dashed line toward the top represents Rahm’s old congressional district, IL-05, now held by Dem Mike Quigley.)
Braun won one precinct? One?
Oy.
* And…
Rahm did better in wards with Black aldermen (59%) than those with White aldermen (55%).
* From Progress Illinois we have voter turnout by ward…
* Perhaps the only person in the entire city more clueless than Carol Moseley Braun is Rob Halpin…
Rob Halpin, the cantankerous tenant of Mayor-elect Rahm Emanuel’s house in Ravenswood who refused to budge before his lease was up, tells Sneed he wouldn’t mind staying! […]
† Quoth Halpin, who lives in Rahm’s two-story family house on North Hermitage: “The lease is up at the end of June 2011. I doubt that they would move back here, as it is a long way from City Hall and the Latin School, where we heard their children may attend.
“It is also a security nightmare as the house has abundant glass and open space. If they wanted us to stay on we would consider it. There aren’t any hard feelings on our part.”
Absolutely hilarious.
Mr. Halpin should take a cue from a good friend of mine who lives in the 19th Ward. My friend’s entire family backed Chico for mayor. He called yesterday to ask if he and his family could move in to my Springfield house until the heat blew over.
* Meanwhile, Emanuel has ruled out a property tax hike…
Emanuel’s pledge not to entertain a property tax increase of any size came in response to a question about how he planned to solve the city’s pension crisis.
A bill approved by the Illinois General Assembly over Mayor Daley’s objections would saddle homeowners and businesses with a $550 million property tax increase in 2015 unless pension concessions are negotiated or another new revenue source is found.
During the campaign, Emanuel ruled out raising property taxes that much, which would amount to a 90 percent increase. On Wednesday, he was asked whether he would entertain a property tax increase of any size. His answer was an emphatic no.
* And he geared up for a possible showdown with the CTU…
No sooner had Rahm Emanuel taken the stage Tuesday night as mayor-elect than his thoughts turned toward restoring confidence in the city’s fractured public school system.
Emanuel pledged to try to improve student safety in violent communities, boost the fortunes of struggling neighborhood schools and urge parents to take a more active role.
But Emanuel knows the problems at CPS, the nation’s third-largest school district, run much deeper, and even before his sweeping victory Tuesday he made enemies of the Chicago Teachers Union with his strong support of charter schools and his plan to keep the school board under mayoral control.
The divide culminated last week when union president Karen Lewis stood before reporters and said: “The fact is Rahm Emanuel does not seem to support publicly funded public education as we know it.” The union chose not to endorse a candidate for mayor.
* He also reached out to a Braun supporter…
Watch for Emanuel to appoint Dr. Byron Brazier as a co-chair of his transition team. Brazier, an old friend of Carol Moseley Braun and an ordained minister and pastor of the Apostolic Church of God
* Notice anything curious about this?…
Gov. Pat Quinn today was asked about Rahm Emanuel’s victory in the Chicago mayor’s race and somehow got into a comparison of energy levels.
The Democratic governor said he called the mayor-elect Tuesday night and offered congratulations on the big win and “oustanding campaign.”
“He’s a person of great energy and idealism. I’ve known Rahm Emanuel for 31 years. And he’s a person who has as much energy almost as I do. And I think I look forward to energetically working for the city of Chicago, where I live, as well for the whole state of Illinois,” Quinn continued.
Wait. I thought the governor said he lived at the mansion because that’s where he kept his undergarments?
* The Tribune takes a look at Ameya Pawar’s big win over the 47th Ward organization…
Scott Cisek, who lives in the 47th Ward and is political director for the Cook County Democratic Organization, said O’Donnell ran an old-fashioned campaign in an upwardly mobile ward.
“They were counting on a model that doesn’t exist anymore,” said Cisek, who ran Cook County Board President Toni Preckwinkle’s successful Democratic primary campaign last year. “They were counting on a buggy-and-whip model.”
The outcome was also partly a result of “people being upset with Schulter trying to endorse a successor,” said Dick Simpson, a former alderman and political science professor at the University of Illinois at Chicago who lives in the 47th Ward and gave Pawar advice on his campaign.
The 47th Ward hasn’t been up to snuff in years. Back in the 1990s, Speaker Madigan’s operation put Lisa Madigan into the state Senate over the strong objections of the “Fighting 47th.” But it was still better than some organizations, and Pawar avoiding a runoff was no easy feat.
* Roundup…
* Emanuel’s winning vote total may be lowest ever
* Emanuel Downplays Being First Jewish Mayor
* Chicago gets first Asian-American alderman
* Dowell rolls in 3rd Ward
* Burnett cruises in 27th Ward
* Incumbents win in 28th, 29th and 37th Wards
* Solis, Morfin head to runoff in 25th Ward
* Fioretti gets 2
* Most Carbondale voters stay home: A total of 1,897 ballots were cast Tuesday in Carbondale’s primary election out of 11,040 registered voters, good for a turnout rate of 17.2 percent, according to official precinct-by-precinct numbers released Wednesday morning by the Jackson County clerk’s office.
posted by Rich Miller
Thursday, Feb 24, 11 @ 10:17 am
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Rich, Quinn goes commando when he is in Springfield.. Duh
Comment by OneMan Thursday, Feb 24, 11 @ 10:26 am
74% in the 19th Ward is impressive.
Comment by Frank Thursday, Feb 24, 11 @ 10:40 am
I think Scott Cisek should stay focused on Berrios not hiring his entire family while firing front line workers. Doesn’t help that progressive persona of yours Cissey! But wait, I need to know did or didn’t Berrios pay for that Vegas trip?
Comment by again Thursday, Feb 24, 11 @ 10:48 am
–Braun won one precinct? One?–
The Braun Story is beyond weird. How some one could have had a life of so many opportunities and incredible good luck and go down this way is almost beyond understanding.
Note to Chicago Media: Next time the usual suspects of black community “leaders” and “consensus builders” call press conferences to make grand pronouncements, feel free to take a long lunch.
We’ve been watching a largely silent (or just ignored?)revolt against the Old Guard on the South and West Sides for a while now. After Tuesday, even the Old Guard must know they’re through, except in their small baronies.
Comment by wordslinger Thursday, Feb 24, 11 @ 10:51 am
That can be a dangerous thing; misplacing your shorts.
Comment by Irish Thursday, Feb 24, 11 @ 10:53 am
I also have never equated Fozzie Bear with high energy levels.
Comment by Irish Thursday, Feb 24, 11 @ 10:56 am
There appears to be a correlation between voter turnout and strength of the ward organizations (see the 19th and 13th wards, for example.)
I wonder who the precinct capatin was who carried for Carole? He must be pretty good.
Comment by reformer Thursday, Feb 24, 11 @ 11:13 am
I guess when choosing a consensus candidate a consensus might be in order. Word’s right, it’s beyond weird. It really screwed up my predictions.
Bad campaigning and Obama/Clinton are potent indeed, but one precinct? Embarrassing!
Comment by Phineas J. Whoopee Thursday, Feb 24, 11 @ 11:14 am
The Chicago property tax thing is interesting, given that they have some of the lowest property tax rates in the State!
Let them pay the same property tax we do in the capital city
the school system would be lfush and the pensions paid.
Comment by Ghost Thursday, Feb 24, 11 @ 11:28 am
One precinct - what a powerhouse. That along with the news that Roland Burris has donated his
“papers” to his alma mater has a “one-two punch” of an exhibition of incompetence, ineptitude, and wildly out of control ego’s that will now, hopefully, put them in their rightful place in the dustbin of history. There is a void/job opening for true leaders in Illinois.
Comment by Anonymous Thursday, Feb 24, 11 @ 11:30 am
Scott Cisek’s most recent job was as campaign manager for Marina Faz-Huppert, who ran for Alderman in the 45th Ward where long-time Daley stalwart Pat Levar just retired and endorsed Marina as his replacement. Marina is a lobbyist for UFCW and she had tons of union support and union money, had Cisek and other Berrios staffers running her campaign, and several high-profile endorsements — a shoe-in, right?
Marina came in THIRD, in part because she had been registered to vote in the ward for less than a year and so had no track record or accomplishments, and in part because of her ties to Levar and his machine.
The two top vote-getters, who will now be in a runoff, were Republican John Garrido and Democrat John Arena. Garrido is a charismatic police officer so it is nota slam dunk for Arena (who is also very charismatic and a great future alderman) but he should be able to win it.
I say all this because I find it very ironic for Scott to be lecturing people about how the old-time machine politics don’t work when he just lost a campaign with many similar elements.
Comment by Lakefront Liberal Thursday, Feb 24, 11 @ 11:38 am
==74% in the 19th Ward is impressive.==
Indeed. Equally impressive is the 13th Ward with the second-highest voter turnout % with no aldermanic contest for a white candidate in a ward where latinos outnumber whites 3:1. That’s discipline.
Comment by Feech Thursday, Feb 24, 11 @ 11:44 am
Quote of the Day has to be:
“There’s going to be a lot of changes in the city council, and I will have voice in it,” Fioretti said. “I’ve had a couple of calls from other aldermen already tonight who have asked me to be one of the new leaders.”
Who in the world does he think will be fooled by that one? A leader? Nobody believes a word the guy says. He has no chance of being a “leader.”
Although, maybe the gang bangers that he hired on election day to work the precincts might make him some sort of king or something.
Comment by Jasper Thursday, Feb 24, 11 @ 11:52 am
==That’s discipline.==
Maybe, but mostly its because they’re all worried about losing their public employment.
Comment by Bill Thursday, Feb 24, 11 @ 11:57 am
I don’t want the governor’s underwear in Springfield at the Mansion - I want him and the rest of the leadership of state government to come back to Springfield as he promised during the election when he campaigned downstate.
The flip to Chicago is the last Blago impact on state government that needs correcting.
Comment by Capitol View Thursday, Feb 24, 11 @ 12:03 pm
I don’t know what kind of man he was, but Tom O’Donnell may have been the most unphotogenic candidate in recent Chicago aldermanic memory. And I’ve seen your pasty white aldermen, trust me.
Comment by ZC Thursday, Feb 24, 11 @ 12:07 pm
well of course Tom wasn’t a looker, but you think Pawar is?
Comment by again Thursday, Feb 24, 11 @ 12:08 pm
===The flip to Chicago is the last Blago impact on state government that needs correcting. ===
You forget about Jim Thompson?
Comment by Rich Miller Thursday, Feb 24, 11 @ 12:27 pm
Saint Edgar didn’t spend much time there either.
Comment by Bill Thursday, Feb 24, 11 @ 12:30 pm
ZC, Tom O’Donnell is not dead…..he IS a man…….
Comment by amalia Thursday, Feb 24, 11 @ 12:43 pm
amalia, you are absolutely correct; poor choice of tense on my part. And again, my point was not to disparage O’Donnell as a person (I know one friend who speaks highly of him), but only to point out that he had some other handicaps, especially since his race seemed to focus heavily on direct mail.
Comment by ZC Thursday, Feb 24, 11 @ 12:48 pm
For all that money and votes, Carol Moseley-Braun won one precinct? Wow, that is pathetic. Pawar ran a good clean campaign and came on very late. The “Fighting 47th” is now dead for sure. There is a lot of change happening on the North Side, between, 46-47 and 50th Wards. I think the Mayor-elect’s popularity couid impact what happens here if he chooses to endorse anyone, just my two cents…
Comment by Rahm's Parking Meter Thursday, Feb 24, 11 @ 1:01 pm
Lakefront Liberal,
The beautiful thing about being a campaign manager is that you can take the credit when you win or pass the blame when you lose.
BTW, beside some of the points you bring up about the 45th ward, I noticed Marina Paz-Fuppert got buried in the media. Why she didn’t get respect from the media is an issue to be addressed with her campaign manager.
Comment by Phineas J. Whoopee Thursday, Feb 24, 11 @ 2:45 pm
A couple comments. First, good ‘ol Edison Park and Norwood Park come through…for Chico. And don’t ya bet for one second that the incoming Mayor doesn’t have the 41st Ward (as well as Burke’s) circled as facing severe retribution, or worse yet, to be thoroughly ignored for better City services, funds for newly-paved side streets, etc. as a result. Anybody else drive along the 41st’s northern border on Howard Street lately–it has a voluminously higher number of craters, large AND small, than the Moon, which will likely only get worse now, as of May….oh well, at least the tire and brake-work dealers will benefit….Next, Gov. Quinn is at times, both virtually tireless, and extraordinarily dedicated–why I just ran into him last night, entering the Thompson Center at almost 9 PM, heavy brief case in hand, slushing through the newly-fallen sleet and snow. As I shook his hand, I mentioned why I was still downtown was that “I’m workin’ late.” While wishing me well, he then quipped, “Join the Club!” Granted, in recent days, Rahm’s gotten all of the attention/glory while Quinn just keeps pushin’ on and laboring, late into the night, for the People of Illinois–as he always has. Like him or not, Illinois is lucky to have a man who truly understands, and lives, the concept of hard work–I’m surmising that he was just, in a low-key sort of way, just reminding us citizens that beyond the Headlines, you can count on him trying his best, workin’ his tail off for us, and truth be told, it ain’t always fun or easy, it takes a lot of energy, and HE serves the people and is trying to tackle the problems of not ONLY Chicago (i.e. he was sayin’ indirectly, sorry, Rahm, but in the end Chicago is still only ONE town, albeit the biggest, granted) but of all of Illinois, which quite honestly, is truly a FAR more important and burdensome job by far–so let’s at least give him a bit of credit where credit is due….
Comment by Just The Way It Is One Thursday, Feb 24, 11 @ 7:33 pm
Word has it that the residents of the 47th were very upset how the retiring alderman did a backroom deal to install his replacement. The organization itself is good with a lot of good captains but the people spoke. Handled very poorly. Somewhere Ed Kelly is laughing his a** off
Comment by regular democrat Friday, Feb 25, 11 @ 7:38 am