Chicago's bitter election is now a nasty runoff

[RandySF]

CHICAGO — Chicagoans are bracing for an election that could tear this deep-blue city apart.

After Mayor Lori Lightfoot’s defeat earlier this week, her surviving rivals and everyday people are readying themselves for an April 4 runoff certain to prod many of the city’s barely obscured racial and economic divisions.

Everyone’s afraid of stating the obvious. The five-week battle to win control of the fifth floor of City Hall will perhaps be the city’s most racially polarizing contest since Harold Washington’s victory in 1983.

“It’s going to be nasty,” Democratic state Rep. Kam Buckner, who also ran for mayor, said in an interview. “People will pick sides — people with a history when it comes to racial sensitivity. There will be a lot of talk about race and class and schools and crime.”



https://www.politico.com/news/2023/03/02/chicagos-nasty-runoff-mayor-00085203

[The Magistrate]

1. Vallas, Sir, Is An Active Principle Of Ruin

Ms. Lightfoot was an amateur in well over her head, who might have done well had she not faced towering crisis at her start.

It simply cannot be Vallas, I'd vote for a yella dog before I'd vote for him.

[PortTack]

2. ☝️☝️☝️☝️☝️☝️

[tritsofme]

3. I don't think it's going to be particularly close.

Johnson just isn’t a great candidate, he benefited from a very fractured field.

Could well be a romp for Vallas.