i know some true believers who imagine all their tv and school taught them is true, and they are wrong but you can't find words they will hear to demonstrate that to them, and i imagine the following article wouldn't do either;
The history of the little guy being squashed by massive Chicago
political clout at election time is just too long to print without
weeping.
But the story for today is so amazing that some Chicago election officials have never seen the like.
“No one can remember anything approaching this,” said an election official.
Really?
It’s overkill of epic proportions, like using a sledgehammer to
kill a gnat, or firing off a nuclear weapon to kill a sparrow. A
Southwest Side David vs. Goliath story.
The David is David Krupa,
19, a freshman at DePaul University who drives a forklift part time.
He’s not a political powerhouse. He’s just a conservative Southwest Side
teenager studying political science and economics who got it in his
head to run for alderman in a race that pits him against the most
powerful ward organization in Chicago.
The Goliath is the 13th
Ward Democratic Organization run by House Speaker Michael J. Madigan,
aka Boss Madigan, the most powerful politician in the state. Boss
Madigan has long hand-picked his aldermen. He likes them loyal and
quiet. The current silent alderman of the 13th Ward is Marty Quinn.
“I’m
from Clearing,” Krupa told me. “All I want to do is get on the ballot
to address the serious issues we have, from public safety to taxes.
People don’t want to say things out loud here. People who’ve challenged
the 13th Ward get intimidated. You know the neighborhood.”........https://www.chicagotribune.com/news/columnists/kass/ct-met-chicago-13th-ward-alderman-race-kass-20181206-story.html
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