It’s the moment we’ve all been waiting for: the chance to vote for the next Cook County court clerk.
Incumbent state’s attorney Anita Alvarez is running for reelection, but she’s unopposed, and many of the candidates in the most contested legislative races can be distinguished only by who’s backing them.
In other words: what’s good is getting behind a winner.
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See—there’s all sorts of fun in that clerk’s race. More on that in a moment.
The proxy wars extend out of Chicago and even Cook County, as evidenced by the Eighth Congressional District race in the northwest suburbs. That’s the one pitting former Obama administration official Tammy Duckworth against Raja Krishnamoorthi, a former deputy state treasurer. The winner gets to take on Republican and tea party favorite Joe Walsh, best known for railing about President Obama’s financial irresponsibility while falling behind on his own child support obligations. Separating the candidates is, again, their big-name backers: Emanuel is for Duckworth while Preckwinkle is behind Krishnamoorthi.
Guzzardi keeps saying he’s running against the elder Berrios, whom he calls the “most powerful guy in Chicago.” Curiously enough, he makes no mention of the guy who really is the most powerful guy in Chicago—Mayor Emanuel, who coincidentally has teamed up with Joe Berrios to make his own endorsements in races ranging from water reclamation district to judicial seats across the county.
“I will acknowledge that some of the people I’m supporting, I’m doing so because my friends have asked me to,” Preckwinkle says.
