Vallas Being Drafted?
Kass notices something our readers have been speculating about for a year now:
The 2027 Chicago mayoral campaign is rushing up at the city, like an angry thug scrambling out of the shadows to smash your head in and take your money and assault your wife, complete with a chorus of high pitched screamers on the street keening out their rage like a murder of female crows. If you have a smartphone you’ve seen it. And if you ignore it and hope to avoid it all, that won’t work.
[...] So far, Cook County Treasurer Maria Pappas, Illinois Secretary of State Alexi Giannoulias, U.S. Rep. Mike Quigley are among those who have declared their intent to run for mayor. But several more are expected to get in. Among state elected officials, Comptroller Susana Mendoza and State Rep. Kam Buckner are mulling bids. Former mayor Rahm Emanuel is hanging off to the side like the other hyenas using his media contacts to help grab a leg bone.
[...] So why, more than two years after the last mayoral election, are Democrats trying to anger Paul Vallas and push him into the 2027 mayoral campaign? They’ve put out “ethics reports” accusing Vallas of accepting $202, 000 in “excessive contributions” from 11 concerns firms doing business with the city, in violation of city law that prohibits contributions in excess of $1,500. This, according to the mysterious Chicago Board of Ethics, an oxymoron if there ever was one. It was fed to the liberal Chicago media and dutifully reported, but most forgot to mention that the Chicago Teacher’s Union dropped at least $5 million on Mayor Brandon Johnson.
The most obvious answer is they're looking to split the voting blocs into smaller and smaller segments so as to exercise control over who makes it to the runoff - no one is going to get 50%-plus-one at this point. The best bet is to fracture the totals among the different ethnic groups. Vallas could draw from a couple different groups based on name-recognition alone and sink Conehead.
Who this benefits is anyone's guess, but it could hamstring Giannoulias (the money leader at this point) and Quigley and open up an avenue to Mendoza (the Hispanic bloc's push for finally getting the BIG prize.)
Time will tell, but the smart play for Vallas might be to play Kingmaker (or Queenmaker) to circumvent the Machine.
Labels: city politics
posted by SCC at 12:04 AM
72 Comments:
Vallas has run for every major office in illinois and lost handily every time. He ran cps which has been a shit show for last 40 years and has the personality of a brick. Hes an old white male which is unelectable in chicago. Please stay away paul. If you dont brandon wins again.
Matters not a whit to me, I packed up my treasure and left the State...
If that doesn’t work they’ll run perennial shill Fioretti again.
I can’t wait to not vote for any of those people
I support Chicago Flips Red candidate Danielle Carter-Walters! Refreshing non-machine candidate.
My close sources told me alderman Pete Chico is going to give it a try also. He would be a great mayor
Look at this non voting liberal who thinks their vote doesn’t matter
Vallas would make a great mayor!
quigley is a scumbag that sends out flyers in the mail telling how great he is by being anti-Trump
Without question Mendoza is the best candidate. She is very sharp with fiscal responsibility and a big supporter of police which we all know the media will attack her for that.
Vallas is a well educated liberal. They don't do any better than the idiots like Lightfoot and Johnson. He also has severe savior complex syndrome. You need a hard nose realist. Look at the video of the cop detaining a suspect on CWB, he's immediately surrounded by "people" with phones out, yelling, encouraging the criminal. They shouldn't even be allowed to loiter there, a realist would solve the issue.
With only 37% voting, you have 63% to convince. Go get them.
How about Dr. Willie Wilson?
.....signed. " Pete Chico..."
But you still care about Chicago and Illinois problems? Stay in your state. Chicago lives in your mind lol
I still believe conehead is a one term mayor but I am not as confident as I once was. I think his anti trump all day every day BS is having an effect on the 35% that will even bother to vote. Unfortunately, the possible replacements do not inspire much confidence.
Now that he’s an alderman he stopped working out and looks more like JB. They can go to the buffet together and talk about politics
Are any insiders talking about my idea - get at least one other candidate with the name B Johnson on the mayoral ballot to split the B Jonson vote .
Also why not at least have sone Republican mayoral candidate for the General ? O d like to see a well known chicago sports celebrity like Gary Fencik .
JR
She s intelligent , sensible - we just have never been able to elect responsible Black conservatives from here or really most anywhere in the USA .
Remember when we ran Black radio talk show host Alan Keyes for US Senate against a then unknown community organizer with an Islamic name Obama ?
JR
Vallas all the way. He would do a fantastic job.
I’ll bet you’re still here in Chicago.
So why are you letting Illinois live rent-free in your head & posting here?
Vallas is controlled opposition, and barely opposition at that. Another Darren Bailey. He's not worth a tinker's cuss in the real world - only because Chicago has lurched so insanely left does Vallas look "conservative" - and just enough so to split votes, as you noted. I love Kasso but he spends way too much love on that cipher.
Chico would be a nice choice if you must have a younger democrat in office. Ray Lopez is a solid pick as well. With Chico in office you can always believe he’ll be tough on crime since he looks like The Hulk minus the green colored skin. Heck Lou Ferrigno is still alive maybe bring him in to help the campaign get started.
Susana has my vote. I hope she announces soon.
I too am feeling the pressure to run. If nominated, I will not campaign, if elected, I will not serve.
Hopefully Jcat will keep his mouth shut and not endorse any viable candidates this time.
I wouldn’t vote for him because he went to Fenger.
Looks like 4 more years of the fool, Conehead.
You are part of the problem
I seriously doubt a Hispanic can win the Mayor's Office. The Hispanic community certainly has the numbers, but way too many illegals and most legal Hispanics do not vote and do not contribute to election campaigns. it has been very telling that just about every Hispanic cultural event has been cancelled because ICE is around and attendance is low.
Vallas won't win. He's the "privileged" one, you know. Sadly, it's those who want and get everything for free, that get taken to the polls,, to tip the scale a bit. Chicago RED is quite interesting, but are enough "fed up" enough? Very well intentioned though. Always thought Conehead was a one-term goof. I might be wrong...settling for a new low!
Vallas should have run for Governor, some want him to split vote and give bone/cone head a chance to win.
So, a 50-year-old soon to be a one term failed mayor is the answer for running again for a second term is the answer. Chicago is on life support. The citizens (pallbearers) will decide whether the usual Democrat Gangster will be mayor, or a cleaner version Democrat will bring integrity to the city. Run Pauly run. The pallbearers will decide the city's future.
Fioretti is already running for Illinois Attorney General against Kwame.
Get behind Ray Lopez, he has been fighting for his neighborhood against gangs for years. Flip Red, not your time yet, back Ray Lopez and get a spot in his administration.
Paul would have been a good mayor, better than the last 3 mayors. He's not tough enough attacking his opponents. Election was lost because lack of voter participation. That made it easy for the election to be stolen with 100,000 ballots located after polls closed. Vallas had the lead when polls closed.
Liam Stanton for mayor of Chicago. Www.stantonforchicago.com. Hometown boy whose dad was CPD.
Love the B Johnson idea
Good enough for me. You got my vote!
Vallas won't win and neither will darren bailey we need some new candidates to be excited about. That fat pig governor will win again.
Maria Pappas would be better than loser Vallas
I hope Vallas does run. He’s got my vote
Good move Illinois just like California or new York. Crap state hands down.
My feeling are hurt after someone called me fat. I’m gonna hit the gym starting next Monday. Until then I’ll be at golden coral for lunch and dinner Signed Alderman Chico
Mayor 6% has already won the 2027 election - it just hasn't been announced yet.
Chico looks more like fat bastard from Austin powers
Look for the vote counters to be CTU members - 6% easily wins.
He was a CAPS officer, no thanks.
Because of her Long COVID is a fake disability draining the pension fund and moral of hard chargers going to work every day.
Vallas is almost as incompetent as cone head. He ran bankrupt cps for how many years? Mendoza doesn't have any money to run. If Alexi runs hes only viable candidate.
Its Chicago, Cone Head will win again!
Remember, you're all too busy to vote and then love to blame everyone else for the results.
My Man!!!
Now you all just have to convince your fellow officers who are married to CTU beneficiaries that the future of Chicago is more important than that public sector pension stolen from taxpayers!
You must love that free gas? Did you get Cheetos with that?
But yet you still read the blog. Speaks volumes about you
Exactly
Pappas is a nut.
Little Mike is a Democrat pimp looking for more money and new importance. He is washed up in congress. Even they know he has always been an empty suit.
When Littlefoot was mayor, I thought there was no way we could do worse. Now after 3.5 years of the most imbecilic politician the world has ever seen, I wonder if we have truly hit bottom. Even Fatass was calling Conehead out for losing the Bears today. He said Conehead never had a plan. I love it when they attack each other. Truth be told Fatass never had much of a plan either
That was because Jack Ryan dropped out of the race. Ryan would have defeated Obama for sure. We can thank Axelrod for this.
Pensions aren’t stolen from anyone.Their run by a mayor who can’t pay his own water bill.I don’t like CTU but their pensions aren’t stolen.You are misinformed.
Not one word in is platform about locking up criminals. Sorry, but he looks like a liberal loser.
I rather have matt osheas dog run for office.
We don’t need him to split the vote again. Stay home. Our only hope is too vote for a moderate. No Republican will win Mayor. Callas had his chance and blew it.
vallas is an idiot
Vallas is old and a white male.
That demographic can’t win in Chicago.
Not gonna happen!
Nothing is "rent free in my head" - I have relatives who haven't left the City or State yet and read the blog because it's one of about 2 actual sources of what's going on in the Shitty of Chiraq. The other reason is what happens in the Democrat locales (LA, Chicago, Baltimore, NY) ends up spreading like an unchecked cancer to other nice areas and I want a heads up to help prevent it where I moved.
But yeah, claiming anything is living rent free in someone's head because it makes Democrats look bad just speaks volumes about the poster - they're DEMOCRATS
Maria Papas is intelligent, competent, middle of the road, and fiscally responsible. All desperately needed by Chicago Residents
Because he’s an over-educated Pin-Head.
Quigley is the worst of the bunch, by far.
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