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Chicago had a mayoral election last night.<\/p>\n

It was a very strange election (yes, 14 candidates, and the top two head into a runoff, and a ranked-choice vote would have really been far preferable to this business of candidates dividing up constituencies), and the outcome<\/a> was, to me at least, unexpected:<\/p>\n

Lori Lightfoot, 17.5% of the vote,<\/li>\n

Toni Preckwinkle, 16%,<\/li>\n

Bill Daley, 14.7%,<\/li>\n

Susana Mendoza, 9%,<\/li>\n

Amara Enyia, 8%,<\/li>\n

Jerry Joyce, 7%,<\/li>\n

Gery Chico, 6%,<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
and a host of others trailing them.<\/p>\n
I\u2019m sure there will be plenty of analysis on which candidates took votes from each other, how the outcome might have been different if there had fewer candidates, say, one candidate with the mantle of \u201creform,\u201d one claiming to be the \u201cprogressive,\u201d and so on.\u00a0 Or maybe there won\u2019t be, I don\u2019t know.\u00a0 The media seems too focused, for the time being, on trumpeting the election as historic:\u00a0 \u201cfirst black woman!\u00a0 potentially first LGBTQ+ person (Lightfoot\u2019s characterization of herself)!\u201d<\/p>\n
And, given the choice between someone deeply entangled with Chicago\u2019s Machine politics, and someone who isn\u2019t, all other things being equal, of course, the non-entanglee is the better choice.\u00a0 But that doesn\u2019t mean that Lightfoot is a great candidates.<\/p>\n
I admit that I hadn\u2019t been following her campaign; when I wrote my article at Forbes<\/a> on the candidates and pensions, she was so low in the polls that her opinion didn\u2019t seem worth profiling.\u00a0 But when I watched the Trib<\/em> candidate forums, I did take notes on what she said in response to the question that was posed to each candidate, how they will fund the upcoming hikes in required contributions for city pensions:<\/p>\n
revenue. \u201cyou can\u2019t just say an answer.\u201d Settlement $ for police misconduct. Workers\u2019 comp. get rid of city clerk\/treasurers. Pension fund: consolite administrative services and investment services. Future employees \u2013 pensions are a promise. Add a Tier 3 (check the report \u2013 has the tier 3 per the report not actually been implemented? No tier 3 for police & fire?)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
Yeah, that\u2019s verbatim.\u00a0 \u201cWorker\u2019s comp\u201d clearly refers to the claim which multiple candidates have made that there\u2019s so much waste in the worker\u2019s comp system, in which the city\u2019s costs are far higher than peer cities, that reforming the system could free up some funding to spend elsewhere.\u00a0 Not sure how settlement money is a revenue source, unless she meant that under her management, police will behave themselves, so that the city will save money \u2014 but I would expect that even in a perfect world, there\u2019ll be a long tail as the city is obliged to respond to past allegations.\u00a0 What really irritated me was her mention of a Tier 3, which suggested that she hadn\u2019t given any of this any thought, since there already is a Tier 3 for the largest plan, and it\u2019s a raw deal for participants.<\/p>\n
Preckwinkle, on the other hand, had a few more concrete things to say but her biggest pitch was, paraphrased, \u201clook, I\u2019ve been Cook County Board President, so I have experience figuring out how to make budgets work.\u201d<\/p>\n
But, once you move beyond the issue of how closely tied they are to corruption, and look at their proposals with respect to what ails the city, well \u2014 they look pretty indistinguishable to me.\u00a0 Each of them promises to fix schools, support LGetc. causes, promote economic development in poor communities, and so on.\u00a0 Preckwinkle promises<\/a> a $15 minimum wage no later than July 2021, 100% \u201cclean energy\u201d by 2035 as well as fully-electric city vehicles and CTA buses, an elected school board, and increased lending\/grants for small businesses in underserved communities, among other promises.\u00a0 Lightfoot\u2019s plan<\/a>, in contrast, promises an electric bus fleet by 2030 and 100% renewable energy by 2025, and \u2014 well, actually I can\u2019t find any clear points of contrast between them.\u00a0 Most of their proposals sound well-intentioned, and some of them sound reasonable enough, such as removing red tape around the building of housing to improve its affordability, or eliminating the aldermanic fiefdoms that make it hard for a small business to expand \u2014 though, let\u2019s face it, if these seemingly-common sense measures are such low-hanging fruit, why would Emanuel not have dealt with it?<\/p>\n
At the same time, it troubles me greatly that proposal after proposal costs money, yet in neither candidate\u2019s website is there any recognition of the fact.\u00a0 Do they believe that balancing the budget is simply a technocratic exercise that voters should trust them to do?<\/span>\u00a0 Are the candidates simply taking the approach that these are \u201cinvestments\u201d which will \u201cpay for themselves\u201d with increased tax revenue down the road and, hence, no need to calculate any expenditures in the meantime?\u00a0 Or are they of the opinion that when an action is so obviously needed, is should be undertaken, and that caring about costs and accounting is unjust?<\/p>\n
So I know I\u2019m not a Chicagoan.\u00a0 And I know there were worse possible outcomes (Medoza v. Preckwinkle? yikes!) but it\u2019s still disappointing.<\/p>\n
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Update:\u00a0 blogger Mary Pat Campbell<\/a> wrote up what she\u2019s gathered on Lightfoot and Preckwinkle\u2019s comments on pensions.<\/p>\n
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