Q. What's the difference between Lori Lightfoot and Toni Preckwinkle?
A. 7,856 Votes
Q. What's the difference between a very bad haircut and a return to some semblance of good grooming?
A. Two Weeks.
Wow. Two stunning mediocrities will face-off in April with the winner set to close Chicago down altogether, Talk about a bad hair day.
I was surprised to see Lori Lightfoot best Toni Preckwinkle. SEIU won that one for Ms. Lightfoot and will allow the idiotic editorial board of SEIU's Sun Times and its cut and paste columnists to crow over a landmark defeat of the really idiotic Chicago Tribune and its help in Bill Daley's attempted hostile take-over of Chicago.
Credit is due to the Purple T-Shirts and not the ink-slinging four-flushers of that daily rag.
Toni Preckwinkle, the humorless former Mrs. Zeus and County Board Boss, will go scorched earth on Ms. Lightfoot these next few weeks and her army of patronage workers will feel the lash for coming up short last night.
Chicago? Chicago screws itself every election.
Chicago will not recover, but the oligarchs who make millions from the Liberal Gentry Culture here will make millions more in real estate and government set-asides.
The gap between Rich and Poor is closed.
The Middle Class ( the Skilled Trades Members, City Employees, Small Business People) , which is to blame for this situation, truth be told, is vanished.
Note this telling graphic lifted from Second City Cop (on election day ironically enough) which notes the middle class going the way of the aboriginal Illinois Confederation.
The Orange represents the poor and the blue represents the rich. The lighter colors are the middle class of Chicago, which has all but disappeared, since I graduated from Little Flower High School in Auburn Gresham,
I am moving to a south suburb, after twenty years in Morgan Park of the 19th Ward,
Two of my children rent in Chicago and one owns a home just across the street from Chicago. God help them.
I loved growing up in Chicago. I got great haircuts from Max Esposito in his shop at Marshfield and 79th Street, next to Billy Ellis' Wooden House. Max Esposito was an exacting and serious barber, but his shop had no comic books.
Mac the Barber/Bookie had every DC issue of Batman and Superman, as well as sexy calendars, but haircuts were often given by gamblers, while Mac made book calls in the back. My folks knew immediately where I had gone for a haircut.
Chicago has opted for Mac haircuts these last twenty years (Daley/Rahm & Whoever). Last night was the worst chop of all.
We can celebrate that an African American Woman ( one openly LGBTQRSTUNVWXYZ) and Chicago will. . . .ad nauseam.
Can we celebrate a bad haircut for the next four + years?
We will.
Hey, Chicago! I see YOUR barber has a great sense of humor!
