[Peace-discuss] [Discuss] Fw: Another victory in Chicago against the Madigan / Emanuelle Machine

[David Green]

Wow! I was in that neighborhood yesterday, and Toni had a million signs. Very heartening!



On Wednesday, March 19, 2014 9:08 AM, David Johnson <davidjohnson1451 at comcast.net> wrote:
  
 
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>  Movement politics won in  Chicago yesterday.by Fred Klonsky  
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>Celebrating Will Guzzardi's win at the Logan Square Auditorium last  night. 
>State Representative-elect Will Guzzardi made it the cornerstone of  his acceptance speech last nightafter handily winning the election against  Machine daughter, Toni Berrios. 
>After handily beating her father, Democratic Chairman Joe  Berrios 
>After handily beating Illinois Party Chairman and House Speaker  Mike Madigan. 
>Chicago has a long tradition of Movement politics, politics that  challenges the rich and the powerful and the Democratic 
Machine. 
>And Will Guzzardi placed himself squarely in that tradition when he  spoke to the crowd of mostly young activists in the Logan Square  Auditorium. 
>Guzzardi won 60% of the vote. 
>There was no mistaking the core issues: School closings, tax  fairness and promised public employee pensions. 
>Greg Hinz in Crain's: 
>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. 
>On stage were other members of the Milwaukee Avenue progressive  corridor: State Senator Willie Delgado, Aldermen Arena, Waguespack  and Moreno. 
>Down in the crowd were the progressive Democrats and democrats who  powered the election. 
>Guzzardi also had the backing of the Chicago Teachers Union, the  SEIU, IEA, IFT and other labor unions. 
>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. 
>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. 
>Next 
time. 
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