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Guy Whitey Corngood

(26,501 posts)
Thu Mar 12, 2015, 12:30 AM Mar 2015

Willie Wilson to endorse Jesus 'Chuy' Garcia

After a high-stakes courtship by both candidates aimed at luring the pivotal black vote, millionaire businessman Willie Wilson has decided to endorse Jesus “Chuy” Garcia over Mayor Rahm Emanuel in the April 7 runoff.

Wilson said he made the decision, as first reported on chicago.suntimes.com, based on the feedback he got from literally hundreds, if not thousands, of his supporters through emails, phone calls and his extensive network of black churches.

He’s also held “three-to-five” private meetings with both Emanuel and Garcia to press his demands for both candidates to reopen at least some of the record 50 schools that Emanuel closed, eliminate red-light cameras and establish “fairness” in the awarding of city jobs and contracts.

“Those red-light cameras on the backs of the poor. Eliminating 50 of them was not enough. They want `em all gone. Not enough fairness in terms of contracts and jobs. And the school [closing] situation is a dagger. The school situation is a major, major, major, major,” Wilson said.

http://chicago.suntimes.com/chicago-politics/7/71/432809/wilson-endorse-garcia

Well that was embarrassing. Corrected the link. Good thing I pasted Larry Willmore and not the usual Finnish dwarf porn video by mistake.

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Willie Wilson to endorse Jesus 'Chuy' Garcia (Original Post) Guy Whitey Corngood Mar 2015 OP
Wrong link?? RufusTFirefly Mar 2015 #1
Just a comment on America's changing demographics: merrily Mar 2015 #2
I never imagined it would get this close. Emanuel still has the advantage but Guy Whitey Corngood Mar 2015 #4
Willie has a great heart. Good luck to Mr. Garcia. freshwest Mar 2015 #3

merrily

(45,251 posts)
2. Just a comment on America's changing demographics:
Thu Mar 12, 2015, 12:43 AM
Mar 2015

A Jewish politician and a Hispanic politician are fighting over the African American vote in an important US city.

We are not post racial, or even entirely post ethnic. But, I live in a city where JFK, shortly after his inauguration, was described by a by then penniless Brahmin of Joe Sr.'s generation as "shanty Irish with a whiskey fortune."



And this is good old Boston,
The home of the bean and the cod,
Where the Lowells talk only to Cabots,
And the Cabots talk only to God


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boston_Brahmin


I appreciate all change away from that.


Guy Whitey Corngood

(26,501 posts)
4. I never imagined it would get this close. Emanuel still has the advantage but
Thu Mar 12, 2015, 11:04 AM
Mar 2015

Garcia's ground game is pretty impressive from what I've seen.

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