Although she isn't a candidate for president, Rummana Hussain. She's a columnist at the Sun-Times, and she has been a member of the Chicago Sun-Times editorial board since 2021. So, she's got some influence. But not with me.
Race apparently is a big deal with Hussain. While a guest on the Ben Joravsky Show podcast in July, she revealed to the host that a job at the Sun-Times a while back was only for a minority. I believe that race-based hiring is illegal.
On last Saturday's Joravsky show, Hussain, who is Indian, weighed in on former Democratic member of the House of Representatives, Tulsi Gabbard, who is now an independent. Last month she endorsed Trump for president.
Hussain, who represented Hawaii in Congress, was born in American Samoa to a white woman and a Samoan father. To her credit Gabbard doesn't talk much about her ethnicity--I would consider her mixed race.
But Hussain says the former congresswoman is white. "Her parents are white," Hussain remarked to Joravasky,"like she's white, she's a white woman." Look for this inflammatory comment around the seven-minute park.
I can only imagine the uproar if a conservative podcaster or radio host said something similar.
That might change, but more on that soon.
During the four-day July 4 weekend, an astounding 109 people were shot--nine of those victims died.
For Labor Day, as of early afternoon on Tuesday, just 31 people were shot over the three-day weekend, five of them were killed.
However, early Labor Day morning, four people, three men and one woman, who were apparently homeless and asleep, were found dead from gunshot wounds at the end of the CTA Blue Line in west-suburban Forest Park. It's unclear though, where these train passengers were shot. Nearly all of the Blue Line runs through Chicago. It's possible that the Chicago shooting and fatality numbers for the Labor Day may increase by four if it's found they were shot within Chicago's city limits.
A suspect in the Blue Line murders is in police custody.
When the DNC was in town, I rode CTA trains several times and I was presently surprised how peaceful it was. There was a heavy police presence on the CTA and on the train platforms. The prior times I took CTA trains I encountered crazy people every time.
Chicago can do better if it wants to do so.
One of the greats, Elvis Costello, turned 70 this week. Over at Da Tech Guy I look back at his career.
Elvis Costello at 70, here are his ten best albums.
I'm still around, but I have been working on a couple of projects. In cognito.
Look for a post very soon!
We've been doing it wrong all of this time, my friends.
From my post at Da Tech Guy:
It's time to get serious, really, about media bias.
From my post at Da Tech Guy:
Journalists should be forced to wear clown suits.
While Lollapalooza received most of the media attention in Chicago this past weekend, people still kept shooting each other.
During Lolla weekend, at least 43 people were shot--four of them fatally.
There were two mass shootings. Four people were shot Sunday morning in Chinatown on the South Side, one of the victims is dead.
A couple of hours after the Chinatown carnage, five men were wounded in Washington Park.
Of the deadly shootings, two of them were teens, both of them were killed in Back of the Yards on Saturday evening.
Van the Man is back with another live album.
Over at Da Tech Guy I take a close look at it.
Review, Van Morrison’s Live at Orangefield.
The Chicago White Sox are more than halfway through an historic season in 2024--but for all of the wrong reasons. As of this writing they are in the midst of a team record 17 game losing streak. Their prior record losing streak was 14 games--and that was set this season.
The White Sox began play in 1901--it began well. Not only did they get off to a fast start, never having a below .500 record that season, they won the first American Legue pennant.
As for '24, the worst may be yet to come. The modern MLB record--since 1900--for worst MLB season ever was set in 1962 by an expansion team, the New York Mets. They were 40-120--a .250 winning percentage that season. Or if you prefer. a .750 losing percentage.
Today, the first day of August, the Sox record is 27-84, a .243 winning percentage. Don't expect a turnaround, because the White Sox traded away most of their best players before last month's trade deadline. Don't giggle, they had some good ones. Those relative ex-Sox stars include starting pitcher Erick Fedde, third baseman Paul DeJong, outfielder Eloy Jiménez, and relief pitcher Michael Kopech, were swapped for prospects.
The last two players are important, as they were prospects acquired for star Sox players several years ago in other "white flag" trades. And as bad as the South Siders have been so far in 2024, getting even worse seems all but certain.
Now it's time for geeky baseball stats. On this day, August 1, 2024, the all-time White Sox regular season win-loss record is 9580-9575. To blast out the obvious, since 1901, overall, the South Siders are a mere five games over .500.
In the spring of '01, William McKinley was president. There were only 45 states.
Sometime this month, perhaps as soon as next week, the Sox will be below .500--possibly for the first time ever--in their cumulative 124 years.
I don't have the time or the math skills to prove my point, but the South Siders--until the Black Sox scandal broke in 1920--were among baseball's elite. There were mediocre until the 1950s--and then quite good until that end of the '60s. More mediocrity followed, along with some successful seasons. Most recently, the Sox were the American League Central Division champions in 2021.
Also, keep in mind that the White Sox, until perhaps now, haven't had a prolonged stretch of awfulness, along the lines of legendary losers such as the St. Louis Browns or the Washington Senators.
So my guess is probably correct.
This is an historic season for the Chicago White Sox in so many ways.
A note to media folks: When reporting on this story, be polite and mention Marathon Pundit discovered this news first. Practice good sportsmanship--no cheating!
From my post at Da Tech Guy:
History awaits as Chicago White Sox might finish with worst MLB season everAs the saying goes, "History doesn't repeat but it rhymes."
From my post at Da Tech Guy:
Another bitter harvest of demonization? The My Lai massacre and the Sonya Massey killing.
It’s always the opposite of what they say
'Cause they know people are easy preyHave to police everyone’s mindNowadays you have to be careful of everything you sayBut it’s all by designThat’s why we have to break the double bind.
As I write at Da Tech Guy, the movie based on Sen. J.D Vance's memoir, Hillbilly Elegy, is a film to watch.
Pick your favorite shirt.
Trump after the assassination attempt in black.A week after the quite bloody July 4 weekend in Chicago, 36 people were shot in the city this weekend, six of them died. There was one mass shooting where four people wounded.
The Democratic National Convention convenes in Chicago in five weeks. Can the Chicago handle that and the regular carnage?
A bullet fired by a psychopath, Thomas Crooks, came just a half an inch from killing Donald Trump yesterday, while the former president was speaking at a rally in western Pennsylvania.
Sadly, one of the attendees, Corey Comperatore, a former volunteer fire chief, was shot to death by the maniac, as he was shielding his family. He's a hero.
Two other people were critically wounded.
God bless Trump, And pray for him, Comperatore, and the other victims.
Mayor Brandon Johnson's so-called crime-fighting strategy, which includes the use of "violence interrupters," isn't working.
Over the long Independence Day holiday, at least 103 people were shot--19 of them fatally.
There were four mass shootings. An eight-year-old boy, Bryson Orr, was slain in one of them.
CWB Chicago reports that Deputy Mayor of Community Safety Garien Gatewood, who appeared at a weekend press conference about the carnage, ducked a question regarding whether the city's anti-crime policies are working. After Johnson, who once supported the Defund the Police movement, appointed Gatewood to that position, a statement issued by the city said he would "lead cross-government efforts to eradicate the root causes of crime and violence, and advance a comprehensive, healing-centered approach to public safety."
So far--no good.
Two months ago, Larry Snelling, Johnson's pick to lead the Chicago Police Department, said that the city was short 2,000 police officers.
He didn't comment on "violence interrupters."
From my post at Da Tech Guy:
Chicagoan speaking about July 4th weekend: “It’s assassination day…”
Still ongoing, the July 4th weekend is particularly violent. My take on it is below:
Chicagoan speaking about July 4 weekend, “It’s assassination day…”
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June is over and people are still shooting each other in Chicago. Over the past weekend, four people were shot to death and at least 31 others wounded.
Of the fatalities, three were the result of an early Sunday morning argument in the Chatham neighborhood on the South Side.
The night before, a man was shot to death in Humboldt Park on the Northwest Side.
Also of note was the Pride Parade. Sunday afternoon, in the Lakeview neighborhood on the North Side, the annual Pride Parade took place. But the party continued into early morning where the police said a "mass arrest" occurred. Details are still trickling in, but it appears what happened was a riot.
Next month, the Democrat National Convention comes to Chicago.
Just saying.
Some bad ideas continue to hang around, as I explain at Da Tech Guy:
An updated list of reasons to oppose J.B. Pritzker for president.
In the land of the no-cash bail SAFE-T Act, Illinois, particularly its largest city, Chicago, violence is the norm.
Over this past weekend--and I suspect I'll be updating these totals--36 people were shot and eight of the victims died. Behind its paywall, the Chicago Tribune is reporting that of those struck by gunfire, five were under 18, including two of the fatalities.
Another tragedy struck Chicago last week.
From my post at Da Tech Guy:
“It’s extremely alarming that we are shrinking our cooling centers in the middle of a heat wave,” said state Rep. Lindsey LaPointe, who represents Chicago’s Northwest Side and advocates for the homeless and other vulnerable populations.
This week, the city established six cooling centers for those who need to escape the dangerous temperatures because they don’t have air conditioning and are susceptible to heat-induced illness.
On Wednesday, only one of those centers, the Garfield Community Service Center at 10 S. Kedzie Ave., will be open from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. despite another forecast for an extremely hot day.
City officials have also advised people to seek shelter at Chicago’s more than 80 public libraries this week, but all those locations will be closed for the day as well.
Happy Juneteenth! Fortunately, Chicago Park District buildings will be open.
Oh, why are Chicago's public libraries closed on holidays? On--sorry if you are woke--minor holidays like Juneteenth, Chicago's libraries should be open.
Another very violent weekend in Chicago has passed. As of Monday morning, 46 people were recorded as shot in Chicago, seven of the victims are dead.
Among the slain is a 13-year-old boy who was killed Friday night in North Lawndale on the West Side.
These figures come from the quite reliable Hey Jackass.
Early count has the weekend posting 10 killed with 62 wounded; 23 shot, 2 fatally since midnight... subject to update/change.
— HeyJackass.com (@w_h_thompson) June 17, 2024
The Democratic National Convention will convene in Chicago in two months. The city isn't ready.
Chicago's first summer under the no-cash bail SAFE-T Act continues to be a bloody one.
Over the past weekend eight people were shot to death and Chicago and at least 37 others were wounded.
It's a big jump over last weekend, when two people were killed and 17 others wounded.
Father's Day is next Sunday, but it's not too early to think about dad.
From my post at Da Tech Guy: 12 great songs about dads for Father’s Day.
Artificial intelligence is actually an evil genius.
From my entry at Da Tech Guy:
Meta AI on Facebook gives biased answers on Biden and Trump’s healthMeta AI on Facebook gives biased answers on Biden and Trump’s health.
And the locusts sang off in the distance
Yeah, the locusts sang such a sweet melody
Oh, the locusts sang off in the distance
Yeah, the locusts sang, and they were singing for me.
The first weekend of summer just ended, and it was a particularly bloody one in Chicago. Ten people were murdered--nine of them after being shot. One person was stabbed to death.
Among the murdered was a 5-year-old girl who was shot to death while sitting in a parked car at 3:30am Sunday on the West Side.
While of course this murder is a tragedy, I have to ask: Why wasn't this girl home in bed at that time?
At least 29 others were wounded in shootings across the city.
An 11th person was killed in a police shooting. Cops shot the now-deceased male as he was stabbing another man.
Illinois is tripling down on crazy, as I write in Da Tech Guy.
At least 45 people were shot over45 people were shot over the past weekend in Chicago, one fatally.
That's an astounding number of shootings, but sadly, it is not surprising. Violence becomes more common as the temperatures rise, but there's a difference in 2024. Brandon Johnson--Chicago's anti-cop mayor--has been in office for a year now. Worse, this might have been the warmest weekend since the pro-criminal no-cash bail SAFE-T Act went into effect.
Johnson lives in Austin on the West Side, where there was a triple shooting. One of those victims is dead.
Also on the West Side, in North Lawndale, there a mass shootinga mass shooting where six people were wounded.
Last weekend only 29 people were shot, but there were more fatalities with four dead.
Cook County's pro-criminal prosecutor, Kim Foxx, isn't leaving office quietly.
From my post at Da Tech Guy: What about the current laws? The next time someone says we need more gun control laws, tell them about Cook County, Illinois.
There goes down another one.
And this anti-violence protest was violent, according to DePaul University's president.
From NBC Chicago:
A Pro-Palestinian encampment at DePaul University in Chicago's' Lincoln Park neighborhood was dismantled by Chicago Police early Thursday morning as school officials released a statement saying the nearly 20-day encampment had led to "the disruption of university operations, interference with student learning, and safety threats to individuals and the public.""Since the encampment began on April 30, the situation has steadily escalated with physical altercations, credible threats of violence from people not associated with our community, an inability for the other members of our community to take part in the core academic experiences on our campus, and an ever-growing series of threats to the people involved in the encampment and our community members," a statement from DePaul President Rob Manual said in part. "From the beginning of the encampment, I have said that we would protect free speech and the ability to dissent until it either prevented us from carrying out the operations of our university or threatened the safety of the members of our community. I am deeply saddened to say the encampment has crossed that line."Manuel's statement also linked to a page that contains examples of "numerous examples of complaints of discrimination, harassment, and violence" the university received since the encampment was erected in April."These examples are representative of the more than 1,000 registered complaints the university received since the encampment began," the statement continued, adding that some of the examples contained material that "may be explicit or violent material that may be harmful or traumatizing."
As Chicago prepares, sort-of, for the Democratic National Convention in August, the shootings of course continue in the city.
Over this past weekend, three people were shot to death and at least 18 others were wounded.
Regarding the homicides, a man driving was shot dead in Woodlawn on the South Side.
On early Saturday, a man having an argument was fatally shot in Park Manor at a Maxwell Street Polish. Around that same time, a man was shot to death in Chicago Lawn.
There was at least one stabbing, Sunday was a clear and beautiful day, which makes the afternoon stabbing of a 15-year-old boy who was stabbed, fortunately not fatally, in Chicago's Loop.
Until about five years ago, violence downtown was rare.
I watched so you don't have to.
From my post at Da Tech Guy: Trump-ified A Man in Full on Netflix comes up empty.
While Chicago Police officers are babysitting, before finally arresting, pro-Hamas protesters downtown, the carnage continues in the city.
Over the past weekend, six people were shot to death in Chicago--and at least 25 others were wounded.
Sunday's Cinco de Mayo parade in Little Village on the Southwest Side was cancelled after reports of gunfire and gang violence.
Brandon Johnson's Chicago is coming apart at the seams.
My latest take on Democrat hypocrisy is at Da Tech Guy.
It will be a memorable year on the South Side.
From my post at Da Tech Guy: History awaits as Chicago White Sox might finish with worst MLB season ever.
Cook County has, until December, a George Soros-funded catch and release prosecutor in Kim Foxx.
Chicago's City Council has several progressive anti-cop members. Its newly elected mayor, Brandon Johnson, said in 2020 that defund the police was "a political goal."
Overnight, a 31-year-old Chicago Police officer, Luis M. Huesca, a six-year veteran of the force, was shot to death at his home in the Gage Park neighborhood on the Southwest Side.
ShotSpotter, the gunfire detection system that Johnson and his leftist allies want to get rid of, alerted authorities of the homicide.
As Barack Obama famously said, "Elections have consequences." Chicagoans made a poor choice with Johnson. And those voters in wards with socialist alderpersons made a bad choice too.
The same goes for Pritzker and Foxx.
Six hours or so after Huesca's murder, Johnson, or more likely a staffer, issued a statement on X. In true leftist fashion, the statement blames the murder on "gun violence." Guns don't fire themselves; a thug pulled the trigger. In lefty-world, on one is ever at fault.We are deeply mourning the death of Officer Luis M. Huesca of the 5th District/Priority Response Team following an act of unconscionable gun violence in our city. No family or community should ever have to suffer such pain.
— Mayor Brandon Johnson (@ChicagosMayor) April 21, 2024
I say nascent because the first step, to make it possible to recall a Chicago mayor, must first be approved by a referendum. After that recall, which, if the referendum collects over 56,000 signatures, another referendum, the real recall, will be held.
Johnson, who is notoriously thin-skinned, is blaming the push of the "extreme right wing" and "a dude in the suburbs."
That "dude" is a North Side man, Daniel Boland, who says he "votes straight down the middle."
Johnson's approval ratings hover around 20-percent. He campaigned on transparency--but he isn't. And while the murder rate is slightly down from the year before, other violent crimes are up. And Johnson seems to care more about the illegal alien migrants than the needs of Chicago residents.
Chicago, despite Jussie Smollet's claims, is not MAGA Country. In 2020, Joe Biden won over 80 percent of the vote.
Johnson is delusional.
It was yet another violent weekend in Chicago, seeing seven people killed and at least 36 others wounded.
There was a mass shooting, likely gang-related, in the Back of the Yards neighborhood on the Southwest Side. One girl, a nine-year-old, was killed. Ten others were wounded. It was the ninth mass shooting in Chicago this year, if the city was a state, it would trail only California in the number of mass shootings.
Illinois is the land of the no-cash bail SAFE-T Act and Cook County, until December, has a George Soros-funded catch-and release so-called prosecutor.
Weekends like this past one are the end result of that.
The media is trying to turn Dexter Reed, was killed in a police shooting in Chicago last month, into the next George Floyd.
My analysis is at Da Tech Guy: Media malpractice on the Dexter Reed police shooting.
Last night, in the Back of the Yards neighborhood on the Southwest Side, an 8-year-old girl was killed, and ten other people were wounded. Of the wounded, three were children, including two boys--a one-year-old and an eight-year-old--and a nine-year-old, whose gender has not as of yet been reported.
Police arrived on to the scene after a ShotSpotter alert. ShotSpotter is a controversial gunfire detection system hated by the left.
Chicago's new progressive mayor, Brandon Johson, campaigned on cancelling the ShotSpotter contract. He extended the contract into September, which means it will be in place for the Democratic National Convention in August.
What a city...
Beyond Chicago's city limits, Cook County is plagued by a woke George Soros-funded so-called prosecutor, Cook County State's Attorney Kim Foxx. Fortunately, for law-abding citizens, she chose not to run for a third term. The Democratic nominee for that post, Eileen O'Neill Burke, is expected to be an improvement over Foxx, but she doesn't take office until December.
As for Illinois, last autumn, the pro-criminal SAFE-T Act, which eliminates cash bail, went into effect. Violent crime rates typically go down as the temperatures fall--now they are headed up.
Chicagoans should prepare for a rough summer.
Correction April 15: Initial media reports said the victim, whose identity, Ariana Molina, is now known, was eight years old. She was nine. There mass shooting is being called "targeted" and it's believed to be gang related.
Illinois' Democrat governor, JB Pritzker, regularly brags about how he signed into law the first legislation that bans cash bail.
In the 2022 gubernatorial campaign, Pritzker repeatedly told an apocryphal story that the SAFE-T Act will prevent a mother from being held in jail for stealing diapers because she can't afford bill.
Then there is Nathan Sweeney of DeKalb, who has been charged with DUI and reckless homicide.
From NBC Chicago:
Nathan P. Sweeney, 44, was apprehended following the death of Deputy Christina Musil on March 28. Sheriff's officials said Musil was sitting inside her vehicle, parked on the right shoulder of southbound Illinois Route 23, when a single-unit Kenworth truck ran off the roadway for unknown reasons and struck her vehicle from behind.Musil was rushed to an area hospital with life-threatening injuries and later pronounced dead. During the investigation following the collision, officers determined that Sweeney had been under the influence of drugs at the time of the crash, authorities said.At a court hearing packed with Musil's family and friends on Monday, 23rd Judicial Circuit Court Judge Marcy Buick cited Illinois' SAFE-T Act and what it requires to be considered when deciding whether to detain someone prior to a trial, the newspaper reported.
More...
The Daily Chronicle reported that Buick listed a multitude of conditions that Sweeney must abide by while on release, including not operating a motor vehicle throughout the proceedings and submitting to at least three random drug tests per week.As for Pritzker, he ordered flags in Illinois to be flown at half-staff.
Gov. JB Pritzker ordered flags to be flown at half-staff until sunset on Thursday, the same day the public is set to lay to rest the late DeKalb County Sheriff’s deputy Christina Musil, who was killed in a car crash while on duty March 28. | Click the ... https://t.co/G6s5I8sm2Q
— Daily Chronicle - Shaw Local (@Daily_Chronicle) April 3, 2024
A far better action would be for the General Assembly to vote to repeal the SAFE-T Act--with Pritzker signing the legislation into law.
It's said that eclipses bring out the worst in folks.
But in Chicago the shooters didn't wait for today's long-anticipated eclipse to cause mayhem.
Over the weekend two people were shot to death and at least others were wounded.
Of the fatalities, both were males, one on the South Side and the other on the West Side.
There he goes again. My latest at Da Tech Guy on Chicago's leftist mayor:
Chicago’s mayor Brandon Johnson asks, "Who expected me to defeat white supremacy in one year?"
The first Easter after the passing of Illinois' pro-criminal SAFE-T Act was sadly a quite violent one. Four people were shot to death in Chicago and there were two mass shootings as well. At least 28 people were wounded.
As for the mass shootings, early on Easter Sunday, five women were shot, one fatally, in Austin on the West Side. Later on Easter, there was another Austin mass shooting, where four people were wounded. Mayor Brandon lives in Austin, by the way.
Of the other deadly shootings, a 29-year-old man was shot to death Friday night in Gresham, and there was another Gresham killing on Saturday afternoon.
I haven't found any details on the fourth shooting.
There's a bit of good news, although the victim is in critical condition. A man was shot nine times on the West Side. Amazingly, he drove himself to the hospital. Let's hope he recovers, as with other wounded victims.
It's time to take a look back at Rush Limbaugh's "Operation Chaos" strategy from 2008.
From my post at Da Tech Guy: Republicans who voted Eileen O’Neill Burke to victory in Cook County, Illinois offer a lesson to blue state conservatives.
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| Ald. Nicole Lee (11th) |
"We were never going to solve Middle East peace," Lee said, "at the City Council of Chicago." The relevant passage is at the 44-minute mark of the March 25 edition of the podcast.
America's third-largest city faces numerous major challenges, including rampant violent crime, widespread shoplifting and car jackings, schools that don't teach, crumbling infrastructure, significantly underfunded public worker pensions, and not surprisingly, a declining population.
But the Chicago City Council, that corrupt legislative body where an alderperson is sent to prison every 18 months or so, found the time to pass a resolution calling for a ceasefire in Gaza. And Mayor Brandon Johnson had to cast a rare City Council tie-breaking vote to put it over the top, after reportedly convincing a couple of "no" alderpersons to miss the vote, which was held on January 31.
SNL, which rarely criticizes leftists, responded a few days later. Weekend Update anchor, Michael Che, responded to the vote with this quip: "And in return, Gaza called for a ceasefire in Chicago."
Earlier in the Joravsky podcast--at the 39-minute mark--Lee said, "I received probably 12,000 emails, probably 400 calls, to my office, all in support, asking me to support the ceasefire."
Interesting. The implied meaning here is that every call and every email Lee received was in support of the Gaza ceasefire resolution. I find that hard to believe.
Lee tries to play both sides of the longstanding conflict in the Holy Land, mentioning in the podcast that she voted for the October City Council resolution that denounced the Hamas attack, which was drafted by that body's only Jewish member, Debra Silverstein (50th). The alderperson also said that before her vote on the ceasefire resolution, she watched the 43-minute long Israel Defense Force video that showed graphic details of the terror attack on Israeli civilians.
If you oppose Lee's vote on the Gaza ceasefire resolution, you may want to reach out to her. The alderperson's contact information is here.
Israel and Hamas are still at war in Gaza. But you knew that already.
The more things change...
From my post at Da Tech Guy: Voting irregularities and worse in Cook County as the winner of the Dem Primary for state’s attorney remains unknown.
Primary election Day was Tuesday in Illinois
Eileen O'Neill Burke and Clayton Harris III are the Democratic candidates for Cook County state's attorney. Cook County is Chicago and the inner suburbs. I live in Cook and I voted for Burke, as Harris promises to continue the pro-criminal "prosecution" policies of Jussie Smollett's protector, Kim Foxx.
Mail-in ballots are still being counted, currently O'Neill Burke, a retired state appellate judge is leading by about 4,000 votes. Mail-in ballots are still arriving.
But suddenly thousands of drop box ballots have just been discovered. Or are they mail-in ballots?
Details are still coming in. But right now, this story is combining the debacles of the 2000 Florida presidential election recounts and the 2020 Trump-Biden race.
Really?
Chicago is not Alaska, even if you are walking, you can make it to downtown from the farthest place within city limits in a few hours on asphalt or concrete--while carrying drop box ballots.
And barbells.
From the Twitter feed of Ald. Brian Hopkins of the 2nd Ward.
After counting what was ostensibly the remaining mail-in ballots, Eileen O’Neill Burke maintains a lead of more than 4,000. BUT…election staff now say they have "found" thousands of ballots with no postmarks, that were placed in drop boxes. They intend to count them tomorrow.
after counting what was ostensibly the remaining mail-in ballots, Eileen O’Neill Burke maintains a lead of more than 4,000. BUT…election staff now say they have “found” thousands of ballots with no postmarks, that were placed in drop boxes. They intend to count them tomorrow.
— Alderman Hopkins (@AldermanHopkins) March 23, 2024
More from Twitter, from the Chicago Board of Elections Twitter feed:
Statement from Max Bever, Director of Public Information, Chicago Board of Elections:I traded speed for accuracy in reporting out numbers this week as quickly as I could. I truly regret this error on my part and for the confusion that it has caused the voters of Chicago. I will share updated numbers only when they are accurate and verified.
— Chicago Board of Elections (@ChicagoElection) March 23, 2024
UPDATE March 24:Correction: after counting what was stated as most of the remaining mail-in & dropbox ballots, EOB holds a 4,000+ lead. BUT…election staff told me they misstated the total number of remaining ballots, and 14,710 more (most are dropbox, so not postmarked) still must be counted.
— Alderman Hopkins (@AldermanHopkins) March 24, 2024
