- 35th Ward candidate Carlos Rosa is taking on Rey Colon.
The political website Aldertrack reported on Twitter this morning that we’re down to 217 candidates in the 50 aldermanic races (or, rather, in the 46 wards in which incumbents are actually being challenged).
Should anyone wish to accuse Rosa of youthful idealism they’ll have to their advantage that he is indeed young: at election time he’ll be 26 years old. But Rosa could benefit from a changing demographic in the ward, one that sent 27-year-old comparative literature major Will Guzzardi to the state house of representatives over six-term stalwart Toni Berrios. Guzzardi has endorsed Rosa, as have the Chicago Teachers Union and state senator William Delgado.
He’s Chicago bred and a product of CPS (Whitney Young, specifically). “I was born and raised in Chicago, right off of Wellington, and I grew up in a family that was always making sure that we were always taking on the Democratic machine, that we’d stand up for neighbors, not the elite. My parents were public school teachers, so quality schooling has always been important to me.”
