Jacob Meister is interesting, and potentially the most truly independent candidate in the race, which is a big plus. His opponent, Daniel O’Toole is a cop with CPD, and isn’t running a real campaign. The Cook County Board of Review is probably the most important super-ignored elected agency in Cook County (sorry, Metropolitan Water Reclamation District). He’s a high school teacher, and according to his Sun Times survey (some of the only info available on him), a big believer in public education and outreach. Charles Hughes, potentially best described as Kevin from The Office Runs for Office, is also running for this seat, but he has no campaign website and his Sun Times candidate survey reads like Kevin, too. Marty Malone is quite proud of graduating from the horrifying-sounding Chicago Police Department’s Citizen’s Police Academy, so that’s a no for me dawg. We’d like to see less from More. Customize the timing and content of automated messages to remind voters of their pledge and plan. (Kalish voted the latter) on the Reproductive Health Act, a sweeping piece of abortion rights legislation, meant to be Illinois’s answer to the restrictive bills being passed in red states. The Mell Machine was run out of City Council by Girl, I Guess favorite and Alder-bae Rossana Rodriguez in 2019, and I think it’s about time to get rid of the last vestiges of this dynasty. BY MAIL. We’d go over his platform, but he’s endorsed by basically every elected Democrat in his District, and isn’t a horrible racist White woman, so he’s getting our choice anyway. Voters in the 2nd District can safely vote to re-elect Robin Kelly. With Tom Hanks, Helena Zengel, Tom Astor, Travis Johnson. Brave Space Alliance is a 501c3 organization, and does not contribute to, or have anything to do with, the writing of this document, or any endorsements, opinions, or content herein! Kina Collins is a powerful, Leftist, badass Black woman organizer who I fully believe would beat Danny Davis in a one-on-one election. Vasquez Bonnin has some good specifics in her platform and, about changing the ways in which schools are allocated funding (she wants to move away from a property-tax based system, which is good because that system is racist and it sucks!! 2020 Taco Bell Skills Challenge Recap. Williams is the son of 27th Ward Alderman Walter Burnett, and former Cook County Commissioner Darlena Williams-Burnett, and he’s a mentee of Illinois Secretary of State For Life, Jesse White. Whoof, well, I guess the folks running for MWRD read the Guide. He’s running partially on something he calls “Democracy 3.0” but doesn’t explain it beyond saying that we need to use technology to make government better which… ok, yeah, sure. 2021 NL General Election: Where Do I Vote? 01:28. This is a fantastic quality in a candidate, but it also painfully clearly shows when he doesn’t care about something, or doesn’t consider it worth his full attention. 4/5 stars: ★★★★☆ In The Ruthless Lady's Guide to Wizardry, Delly, an untrained fire witch barely scraping by in life while trying to care for her drug-addicted mother, takes up a position as a personal bodyguard in hope of turning her life around wit His father, William E Conway, Jr, has contributed almost $5 million to his campaign, more than, . This race was difficult to research… so difficult that I accidentally missed it the first time around! These are some of the specifics that I was looking for, and in my mind, these stances put her past Vasquez-Bonnin. This is the fourth full edition of this guide (fifth, if you count our 2019 Runoffs guide), and the ambiance gets more bitter each time. Your vote. His stance on Palestine is horrific, a racist, Liberal Zionist lie straight out of the Oslo era, and is something that I would laugh out of any community organizing space I inhabit. 'I thought that perhaps it was just toast and tea and self-denial, for the gentler classes.'" Or at any of the early voting places! Stefanie Smith is a dynamic, progressive, and downright badass challenger, and gets a full-throated endorsement from Girl, I Guess as my choice to take on Rodney Davis in November. campaign for MWRD. Also, all but 14 of the races are uncontested anyway. This six-candidate pileup of a race features my favorite candidate name of the cycle so far: , whose nickname “Yoni” is such a perfect combination of Jewish and sapphic nomenclature, and so fully in the spirit of Girl, I Guess, that I was tempted to endorsed him on the spot for his name alone. For that reason, I’m giving my nod to. Other troubling things about the MWRD: they’re known for corruption, trafficking in clout, lacking transparency, and other generally. I will never forget the moment when Warren recited the names of murdered Black trans women on national television during an LGBTQ town hall with candidates; an event that Bernie Sanders did not attend (although he apparently had a previous commitment). She’s a long shot, but I’m supporting change for the district and endorsing Samantha Simpson, in no small part because I think Flowers should at least be putting up a token resistance, even if she’s sure she’s going to win. This means that the office has the power to enact bail reforms like refusing to require a cash bail for non-violent offenders. Evidently he was one of those long-ago members of J Street who bought more into the pro-Palestine part than the pro-Israel part, and we spoke about how he had joined and left the organization in college before J Street’s rightward turn, and recent identity crisis. Munoz is ok, I suppose, and he does have a long and strong record on the elected School Board, supporting the rights of undocumented students, and expanding Medicaid access. If you’re in the 3rd, give a “Girl, I Guess” to, Since the very first time Girl, I Guess covered Congressional races, I’ve used this space to educate the public about my casual dislike for the Congressman who I have named “Quiggles”: Mike Quigley, the incumbent for the 5th District. Dive into the background and opinions of the candidates on your actual ballot, no matter where you live in Illinois. His campaign has had deep problems with just about everything that I care about, and his base of supporters often ranges from overzealous, to violently cultish. I trust her judgement, and I would trust her as an elected official the same as I would trust her as a community organizer. You dorm? If voting is where your participation stops and starts in our political process, you’re not doing anywhere near enough. What this comes down to, for me, is Garfield’s stance on legislative term limits. Collins has been endorsed by Girl, I Guess favorite Jeanette Taylor, Good Kids Mad City, IL Youth Climate Strike, and the Center for Popular Democracy. Let’s knock out a couple of candidates right away. You can register when you show up to vote on election day! the Girl, I Guess shrug is going to Patricia Vasquez Bonnin. IL-13 deserves a candidate that can make up for the district’s history of having noted Iraq War Fraudster Donald Rumsfeld as a representative in the 60s (. Both received qualified marks from bar associations (although technically Griffin received the higher marks), but I don’t like the fact that Griffin, at a law firm co-founded by his father, and I’m not a big fan of legacy law firms just as a rule. He also strikes me as a Total Dad™, and his campaign website prominently features a football watch party event. While both candidates support term limits for legislative leadership, I believe Garfield is overcompensating by being adamant in his support for general term limits. Collins has been. And even when I was evaluating the two candidates, I found myself repeatedly comparing public statements from Clark’s website to stances that I found in questionnaires that I had been sent by Collins’s campaign. If you don’t know where to start, there are a million places that you can look, and start, and I guarantee you know one if you’ve been paying a lick of attention since March. This whole ordeal has been nothing but a giant, unmitigated shitshow that put front and center everything that’s wrong with the Democratic party, and everything that I feel is beyond fixing. Yoni Pizer, on the other hand, is endorsed by basically everyone gay except Cappleman, including a couple folks that I’m solidly not a fan of in Lori Lightfoot and 44th Ward Alderman Tom Tunney. It seems like this weird niche little governing body, but it’s important! Voter turnout was 68.5% in 2015. Ultimately, I’m giving a shrug and an endorsement to Quiggles because goddamn at least he had the sense to never be homophobic in public. , who is, you guessed it, an appointee to the State House, and Patricia Vasquez Bonnin, a successful comedian and media personality (she also sought the appointment in May, but was unsuccessful). “And Aaron said unto Moses, ‘Didn’t we pass that sand dune last week?’ to which Moses did proclaim, ‘Aaron, I have been chosen to lead our people out of bondage, and to the Promised Land. I encourage you to check out their guide, and use the information there to make your choices about the judicial elections on your ballot!! And he also deserves credit for nearly singlehandedly pushing the national discussion on domestic policy to the left for the past five years. Emmons, Jr is sporting endorsements from The People for Bernie (although not Sanders himself), the Sunrise Movement, and CrystalMama/That One Jewish Woman In Every Reform or Reconstructionist Synagogue Who Sells Essential Oils After Shabbat Services AKA Marianne Williamson. This is what we call a “holy shit,”moment  or a classic “too many endorsements from progressives that we care about for them to all be wrong despite Newman’s cowardice on Palestine” situation. Samantha Simpson, however, might be enough to put the fear of electoral Jesus into Flowers. I believe that free college, universal childcare and a living wage for childcare workers are essential structures for a radical society. If I’m ever asked about incumbent complacency, this will be the race that I reference. Not only is he endorsed by a slew of progressives and progressive organizations, but he embodies the concept of judicial activism in the best possible way. RECENT EPISODES WITH "NO SIGN IN NEEDED" RECENT EPISODES WITH "NO SIGN IN NEEDED" 43:03. ), who are a White Supremacist gang, and a blatantly racist organization. It’s the absolute bare minimum that you can, and should do, but afterwards, you need to take to the streets. Represent the interests of their constituents, write, and pass legislation. Kalish claimed that his “Orthodox Jewish values” compelled him to vote “present” on the bill, but that’s some serious garbage, because according to Jewish law, abortions are totally 100% fine, and Kalish is just looking for an excuse to be wishy-washy. Olickal is much stronger on housing, and has a specific position on cash bail; Wang Stonebeck is better on Chicago issues like TIFs and the mental health clinics, and social services for children in the system and disabled folks. A 2018 flip-flop on her support for the Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions movement for Palestinian liberation, and her support of a two-state solution are a slap in the face to the massive Palestinian community that she’s trying to represent. State Rep Mary Flowers has been in this seat since 1985. If you’re in the 1st, vote for Froylan Jimenez. No problem… our beloved flat state has same day registration. Her campaign website barely has any information on it (not even a roster of issues), and she’s left herself vulnerable to a truly fantastic challenger from the Left. Luckily for her, however, she came with some big-time help. Unfortunately, the drama stops there, so vote Hyman, and call it a day. It is also somehow the best stance of any candidate in the race. But it does make me nervous that her clear connections to labor might lead to some of the problems we’ve seen with patronage and clout bidding at the MWRD. The general rule that Girl, I Guess employs for these races is: If you like your Alderman/elected official that’s running for the seat, then vote for them. I’ll be keeping to that format this time around, both because it is easier to understand, and because there is no runoff election for primaries in Illinois. She’s also got the endorsements of Governor JB Pritzker, both sitting US Senators from Illinois, Members of Congress Schakowsky, Rush, Davis, and Kelly, our One True Mayor Toni Preckwinkle… and also Lori Lightfoot if you’re a fan of her. I don’t follow some of the politics of Stephanie Skora’s guide, but I enjoyed reading it and found it helpful. Tom Steyer, who my partner once mistakenly called Tom Sawyer in the most unintentionally masterful read of a candidate I can remember, is a joke candidate who should have stayed on the sidelines and continued to donate his millions to progressive causes in peace. Conway is truly horrific, so much so that there’s an entire campaign devoted to getting him the fuck out of this race. Yes, voting is still incredibly important on the State and local level, and yes, while you’re in there you may as well vote for Federal offices, too, but we have to fight the fuck back. Despite being the 6th race covered in the Guide, this one is the last one I endorsed, because both Kina Collins and Anthony Clark are so fantastic that it pains me to pick between them. Joe Biden is an addled time traveler from the 1970s who thinks that a well-bleached smile and a charming working class anecdote are the things that win a general election. There are a few of these races, and hoo mama are they spicy. The two-state solution is a racist fantasy, under which any Palestinian state would be wholly subservient to the Israeli economy and infrastructure, the basic freedoms of Palestinians would be denied, and Palestinians displaced in the Nakba would be thrown under the proverbial bus. Follow the latest race results, candidates, and events leading up to the 2020 Presidential Election. Again, another impressive individual who I just don’t want anywhere near a job that’s had a bit too much of an insider’s touch for the past 20 years. The memoir was later reprinted in 2015 as. Deyon Dean is running on a platform of taking on lead poisoning in Chicago, and reducing the cost of poor folks’ water bills, which sounds amazing… until you take a closer look at his history. I’m giving my endorsement to. For what it’s worth, Sandra Gisela Ramos doesn’t seem all that terrible, but has a negative bar association rating from the Illinois State Bar Association, because they don’t think she’s handled enough complex legal matters, and she’s a former State’s Attorney. as my endorsee, but for those in his district, keep in mind that he might need to be held accountable. After hours of poring over candidate surveys, questionnaires, and their websites (which, by the way Anthony, please add a home button to your website, I’m begging you), I’ve decided that the only meaningful difference between them is the amount of information that is publicly available about each of their platforms, as of the time of the Guide’s release. Also he said that his favorite TV show is Rick and Morty, which is just sad. Break out your grouchiest scrolling fingers, and let’s push the Overton Window in the House of Representatives as Left as we can get it!! . LaPointe is sporting endorsements from SEIU, the CTU, Senator Dick Durbin, and Rep. Mike “Quiggles” Quigley. "I think there are certain people that are born with a comic gene, I guess you would say.

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