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size=4>Movement politics won in
Chicago yesterday.</FONT></A></H2><SPAN
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size=4>Celebrating Will Guzzardi's win at the Logan Square Auditorium last
night.</FONT></EM></P>
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size=4>State Representative-elect Will Guzzardi made it the cornerstone of
his acceptance speech last nightafter handily winning the election against
Machine daughter, Toni Berrios.</FONT></P>
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size=4>After handily beating her father, Democratic Chairman Joe
Berrios</FONT></P>
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size=4>After handily beating Illinois Party Chairman and House Speaker
Mike Madigan.</FONT></P>
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size=4>Chicago has a long tradition of Movement politics, politics that
challenges the rich and the powerful and the Democratic
Machine.</FONT></P>
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size=4>And Will Guzzardi placed himself squarely in that tradition when he
spoke to the crowd of mostly young activists in the Logan Square
Auditorium.</FONT></P>
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size=4>Guzzardi won 60% of the vote.</FONT></P>
<P
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size=4>There was no mistaking the core issues: School closings, tax
fairness and promised public employee pensions.</FONT></P>
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href="http://www.chicagobusiness.com/article/20140319/BLOGS02/140319687/rauner-scores-narrow-win-over-dillard-thanks-to-chicago-area-voters"
target=_blank><FONT size=4>Greg Hinz in Crain's:</FONT></A></P>
<BLOCKQUOTE
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<P
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size=4>Toni Berrios lost her job to the new Democratic nominee, Will
Guzzardi. It was a race in which the Chicago Teachers Union and other
labor groups spent heavily, concerned about Ms. Berrios' past and future
votes over pension reform.</FONT></STRONG></P></BLOCKQUOTE>
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size=4>On stage were other members of the <EM>Milwaukee Avenue progressive
corridor:</EM> State Senator Willie Delgado, Aldermen Arena, Waguespack
and Moreno.</FONT></P>
<P
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size=4>Down in the crowd were the progressive Democrats and democrats who
powered the election.</FONT></P>
<P
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size=4>Guzzardi also had the backing of the Chicago Teachers Union, the
SEIU, IEA, IFT and other labor unions.</FONT></P>
<P
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size=4>The CTU and progressives also heavily backed Jay Travis in the 26th
State Representative race. The district runs south from downtown along
South Lake Shore Drive into the South Side.</FONT></P>
<P
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size=4>Travis, an organizer from the Kenwood Oakland Community
Organization challenged Representative Christian Mitchell who received
buckets of cash from school privatizers. While many professional political
pundits dismissed her race at the start, Mitchell ran scared at the end,
needing tens of thousands of last minute donations to hold off Travis who
came within 400 votes of beating him.</FONT></P>
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