Chicagoist: Ambrosio Medrano: Supremely Screwed

PilsenSlav

Mon, 26 Feb 2007 23:01:16 -0600

Dramatic? What an understatement. Without Medrano, we have the two HDO shills (Acevedo & DelValle), Mrs. Padilla (nee Kowalski), Temoc Morfin (Chavez without oil), and the rather pragmatic current Alderman Solis. So the shills are obviously just taking up space on the ballot and running in precincts where the man isn't strong. Padilla still feels the prick of the thorn that didn't allow her husband to run roughshod with upzoning and Morfin is busy taking credit for things he didn't accomplish while running disastrously on a platform that would downzone all of Pilsen to the zoning that Mrs. Padilla's husband was trying to escape less he have to build 849K single family homes which he subsequently did. What a farce. A total passion play. If Temoc forces Alderman Solis into a runoff and subsequently wins (highly unlikely the voters are not stupid), money would still come but instead of affordability, as Solis insists on, we will have million dollar townhomes. An ironic outcome of the oft celebrated saving manna of downzoning put forth by the know nothing do gooders at Pilsen Alliance. As for irony, how does Mr. Morfin reconcile running a campaign against a homeless shelter (thankfully to no avail) while supposedly supporting affordable housing. For that matter how does one think they can "control" the price of real estate which he so aptly proses to do? Is he a market maker? The veiled racism of his participation in the anti-homeless shelter campaign still causes me to bristle. How dare he! Counter that to what has been good leadership by Daniel Solis and what gives? Spoils. Solis pushed through a Planned Manufacturing District despite unfavorable views by Padilla's supporters, used 12 Million dollars of TIF money to fund the expansion of Juarez High School which Morfin inexplicably takes credit for, has negotiated with businesses to come to the PMD including Blue Cross and DHL, relocated the horse and buggy South Water Market to state of the art digs, insists any upzoning for residential housing include a 21% affordable unit level at 60-90% median on any development at or above ten units, etc etc. I just don't get it. Overall, Alderman Solis is as good as it gets, smart and pragmatic. There must be greed and jealousy behind the challenger's curtain.

PilsenSlav

Mon, 26 Feb 2007 22:58:48 -0600

PilsenSlav

Mon, 26 Feb 2007 22:54:54 -0600

Dramatic? What an understatement. Without Medrano, we have the two HDO shills (Acevedo & DelValle), Mrs. Padilla (nee Kowalski), Temoc Morfin (Chavez without oil), and the rather pragmatic current Alderman Solis. So the shills are obviously just taking up space on the ballot and running in precincts where the man isn't strong. Padilla still feels the prick of the thorn that didn't allow her husband to run roughshod with upzoning and Morfin is busy taking credit for things he didn't accomplish while running disastrously on a platform that would downzone all of Pilsen to the zoning that Mrs. Padilla's husband was trying to escape less he have to build 849K single family homes which he subsequently did. What a farce. A total passion play. If Temoc forces Alderman Solis into a runoff and subsequently wins (highly unlikely the voters are not stupid), money would still come but instead of affordability, as Solis insists on, we will have million dollar townhomes. An ironic outcome of the oft celebrated saving manna of downzoning put forth by the know nothing do gooders at Pilsen Alliance. As for irony, how does Mr. Morfin reconcile running a campaign against a homeless shelter (thankfully to no avail) while supposedly supporting affordable housing. For that matter how does one think they can "control" the price of real estapote which he so aptly proses to do? Is he a market maker? The veiled racism of his participation in the anti-homeless shelter campaign still causes me to bristle. How dare he! Counter that to what has been good leadership by Daniel Solis and what gives? Spoils. Solis pushed through a Planned Manufacturing District despite unfavorable views by Padilla's supporters, used 12 Million dollars of TIF money to fund the expansion of Juarez High School which Morfin inexplicably takes credit for, has negotiated with businesses to come to the PMD including Blue Cross and DHL, relocated the horse and buggy South Water Market to state of the art digs, insists any upzoning for residential housing include a 21% affordable unit level at 60-90% median on any development at or above ten units, etc etc. I just don't get it. Overall, Alderman Solis is as good as it gets, smart and pragmatic. There must be greed and jealousy behind the challenger's curtain.

PilsenSlav

Mon, 26 Feb 2007 22:51:49 -0600

Dramatic? What an understatement. Without Medrano, we have the two HDO shills (Acevedo & DelValle), Mrs. Padilla (nee Kowalski), Temoc Morfin (Chavez without oil), and the rather pragmatic current Alderman Solis. So the shills are obviously just taking up space on the ballot and running in precincts where the man isn't strong. Padilla still feels the prick of the thorn that didn't allow her husband to run roughshod with upzoning and Morfin is busy taking credit for things he didn't accomplish while running disastrously on a platform that would downzone all of Pilsen to the zoning that Mrs. Padilla's husband was trying to escape less he have to build 849K single family homes which he subsequently did. What a farce. A total passion play. If Temoc forces Alderman Solis into a runoff and subsequently wins (highly unlikely the voters are not stupid), money would still come but instead of affordability, as Solis insists on, we will have million dollar townhomes. An ironic outcome of the oft celebrated saving manna of downzoning put forth by the know nothing do gooders at Pilsen Alliance. As for irony, how does Mr. Morfin reconcile running a campaign against a homeless shelter (thankfully to no avail) while supposedly supporting affordable housing. For that matter how does one think they can "control" the price of real estapote which he so aptly proses to do? Is he a market maker? The veiled racism of his participation in the anti-homeless shelter campaign still causes me to bristle. How dare he! Counter that to what has been good leadership by Daniel Solis and what gives? Spoils. Solis pushed through a Planned Manufacturing District despite unfavorable views by Padilla's supporters, used 12 Million dollars of TIF money to fund the expansion of Juarez High School which Morfin inexplicably takes credit for, has negotiated with businesses to come to the PMD including Blue Cross and DHL, relocated the horse and buggy South Water Market to state of the art digs, insists any upzoning for residential housing include a 21% affordable unit level at 60-90% median on any development at or above ten units, etc etc. I just don't get it. Overall, Alderman Solis is as good as it gets, smart and pragmatic. There must be greed and jealousy behind the challenger's curtain.

curmudgeon

Mon, 26 Feb 2007 09:51:50 -0600

How can Medrano force a runoff if votes for him will not be counted? And how can they disenfranchise voters who voted early and voted for Medrano? This is Chicago politics at its best (or worst).