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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.
Hes 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.
RufusTFirefly
(8,812 posts)merrily
(45,251 posts)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."
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)Garcia's ground game is pretty impressive from what I've seen.