What's Her Sell-By Date?
Because we think it passed a while ago:
Cook County Treasurer Maria Pappas is joining the 2027 race for mayor of Chicago, but she doesn’t want to talk about it until after she is safely reelected next year to an eighth term in the job she has held since 1998.
Pappas, 76, a baton-twirling grandmother known for her flamboyant wardrobe and sharp wit, has flirted with running for mayor for decades but has yet to pull the trigger on a mayoral campaign.
This time, Pappas says she’s in it for real, whether or not embattled Mayor Brandon Johnson seeks reelection, and no matter how crowded the field of challengers becomes.
So who's backing her? Mayoral runs are expensive.
Also, with the wide open primary field, every one runs and the top two go on to the runoff. Her declaring the intent to stay in seems like a ploy to split an already fractured voter base - kind of like how Fioretti ran a few years ago to draw away support and get the Machine to pay off his campaign debts. Or the assorted black candidates who divide up that shrinking bloc like Willie Wilson.
Who gets shafted by Pappas entering and staying? Rahm or Groot looking for a replay? Mendoza? Some other commie "progressive"?
Labels: city politics
posted by SCC at 12:01 AM
49 Comments:
This is all preckwinkle and daleys in the background. She is tight with preckwinkle and is one of the old guard when it comes to the old regime with the daleys. Preckwinkle and Daley both know Johnson is out.. Johnson was both of their choices in the background because they both had him under control when Johnson was with the county.. even they see he’s not getting reelected so they bring in her who will do what she is told..
“Pappas, 76…” 76?? RETIRE! Term limits & age limits NOW! Just like the bosses who won't leave the job because at home they're just, “John” or “The Asshole.” The only upside is, while she'll qualify for ANOTHER government pension, at least she won't be collecting it very long. Is she married? Will her husband get 50%? Fuck that.
Mendoza is her competition.
Flamboyant females are fun to vote for.
But you can only vote for one.
SW side retiree. Got my taxes finally and there was no raise for me whatsoever.
Why doesn't she just run for mayor? Why run for one office and then run for another ?
Maybe to handpick her own successor? How democratic
My guess is the democratic power brokers, local city/county/state and nationally are thinking of backing Pappas.
They realize if Chicago and the collar counties go down the drain the rest of the state is not far behind. The elite have further decided after two woke DEI pols have had their chance, neither doing anything to rejuvenate Chicago, it is imperative to run a candidate they can back, the people and businesses can back, and can reverse the exodus of people, businesses, and money.
For real?
Straight up!
Word...
Best and brightest CPS Graduate applying to run things...get the popcorn
She's too old to be mayor.
She should hold off and run in 2028 to be POTUS.
We need a candidate that’s young , the reason. these communist win like Zohran etc is cause they connect with the younger modern way of people , campaigning at clubs , bars , walking around etc , And that is the exact reason why the one modern up and coming conservative rep Charlie Kirk was killed by both democrats and republicans . Because they were afraid of having someone like that for the conservatives .
Give me a break.
Mendoza is a clown. Currently she's showing up around town doing stupid PR appearances trying to make herself look good. Oh please tell us again she has an idiot brother who's CPD.
All of the above...
Ja'Mal's gearing himself up for another run.
"Based on all public information, Maria Pappas does not have children or grandchildren."
Yeah she’ll fix everything
BJ, far left wing Greek Secretary of State who praises Obama, and this socialist. These are our choices for Mayor.
Thought ... that sea hag was dead.....
Pappas used to get a lot of support from notorious slumlord & genuine whackjob, Lou Wolf, but he's dead, so I have no idea if his family will continue that support. On the roof on his building at Devon & Broadway he once put up a billboard that read "GO MARIA PAPPAS" during her reelection campaign. It was finally torn down for a Starbucks. The city would like to cut off a part of that corner so the Broadway bus can turn southbound off of Devon easier, but the alderman once told me, they didn't want to get into a decades long fight with Wolf in court, as he was that litigious, even over 25 square feet of land!
Tiny Dancer again. That is a magical wedding dress he has.
🤮🤮🤮 just retire already!!!!
Another spoiler.
Another useless person running for mayor. This is how we got the last two 15 people ran for office and took votes away from ok candidates. Here we go again Chicago seems to elect the biggest losers possible so she may have a shot
Willie Wilson kicks butt.
Now, kees me you fool!!!!
If lightfoot and conehead can get elected Green running as a democrat socialist is a sure bet.
Wait, we actually had a OK candidate, I must have been napping.
Mendoza is on our side and has never been afraid to mention it.
You seem to be disparaging this man because he refuses to allow the govt to steal his land “ for the public good.” Fuck the CTA, or any other govt entity that wants to take property from a citizen. No govt takeover. Oh, now that I think of it further, Fuck You, you commie bastard.
Chuy Garcia may make a come back since he is screwin up so bad as a Congressman.
A lot of Qs
She has been T for 27 years. I sure she has that running with out much impute from her, so she’s simi-retired.
She is 76 and wants to keep the T job.
But she wants to be mayor?
She must know she won’t win. (Yes I remember Jane, who got lucky with a snowstorm.)
This will be another 10-15 candidate race.
Her role is spoiler, siphoning votes from a better candidate, then going back to T.
Since when?
This is Chicago baby!
Vote early and vote often.
Nonsense. This is Cook County. Remember, vote early and vote often.
Yeah, so put a senior citizen on the ballet who spends half her time posing for calendars and twirling batons. That will solve the problem. You sound as dumb as the democrats.
SCC author for Mayor. Like in Taxi Driver: "No longer will the majority suffer because of the minority!".
Just two miles away……..
I’ll take her over what we got now
Shitcago can only get worse. Jamal Greene will be the next mayor.
We need to find first transgender little person to run for Mayor. Little person, big solutions and boxes for diversity are checked.
If she becomes mayor, all the district lockups will be serving saganaki to prisoners. I'm sure the arson offender will appreciate it.
You guys thinking Rahm wants to go backwards and become mayor again are crazy. He's running for President.
So who's backing her? Mayoral runs are expensive.
Who?! We the sucker taxpayers she's the "Treasurer" for fucks sake.
Because when she drops out of the mayoral race she’ll still have a job. Duh
And the reason the younger politicians are getting votes is because they promise free free free
she's always been good to the Police.
Mendoza is our next mayor. You heard it here 5th.
How? In what way?
Is it too early to see "who is Brock Merck?" Signs up around the nw side?
She is the Fioretti of this election cycle. She is just doing the bidding of her warlord Preckwinkle.
Here who’s likely also running to unseat Johnson: Mendoza, Lopez, Vallas, Wilson, Green, Buckner. A few others will probably join the crowded field and be vote splitters in their respective ethnicities.
My guess is Johnson will be told not to run again by preckwinkle so he doesn’t get trounced and embarrass her again, like her states attorney candidate did against Burke.
God help us.
She only broke bad on the machine when Lori wouldn't give her brother a full disability for the Wu. Until then she watched Lori flush the city done the drain.
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