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While the big party was in Grant Park, another historic win went down in Cook County last night as Pilsen native Anita Alvarez became not only the first female state's attorney in the county's history, but is also the first Hispanic state's attorney. With 93 percent of the results in, Alvarez garnered 69 percent of the vote to Republican challenger Tony Peraica's 26 percent; Green Party candidate Tom O'Brien had five percent.
Alvarez celebrated with supporters and declared, "Ladies and gentlemen, there's a new state's attorney in town, and she's ready to roll up her sleeves of her power-red suits and get down to business .I gotta tell you, it feels good to break that so-called glass ceiling here in Cook County." It was a hotly contested, sometimes bitter, race and that showed in Peraica's concession. The downed challenger said, "We fought hard, and we're going to continue to fight hard. Apparently one-party rule is what this city and county wants." Alvarez has been working under outgoing state's attorney, Richard Devine.
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Long live the machine!
Machine, shmachine. Tony Peraica is a douchebag. Just as losing to Todd Stroger doesn't actually make him a "reformer", his loss is less about "one party rule" than it is about whether we wanted Tony Peraica running the State's Attorney's office. Most of us, by a large margin, did not.
Here's to my fellow five percenters!
Oh yeah, there were other elections too.
Tony Peraica is starting to remind me of Jim Oberweis - he's going to keep running for something until he wins. That's not a good enough reason to vote for anyone.
That damned loudspeaker truck was reason enough to vote against Peraica.
Machine? Ha! The machine was in the tank for her opponents in the primary. Tom Allen, for instance, was supposed to get a job before his ward was redrawn and he got pushed into a majority Hispanic ward. Now Allen is kind of . . . up a creek. I'd start learning the Espanol if I were him.
I knew I would never vote for Peraica after he pulled that stunt of rushing the City/County Building when he ran against Toddler. That just came off as out of control and crazy.
In other words madvulture, your analysis might be a little off. Maybe Chicagoans really (a) are Democrats, and (b) think Peraica is a jackass.
regardless - she'll do nothing to step on toes, and everyone will wait to see if fitzgerald is kept on as promised or not
I think if you look at other county races it shows that the machine was much more of a factor than the qualities of the candidates. Compare to the other county races where the relative qualities for the democratic and republican candidates were very different.
I wonder how many voters don't even know what they will see when they get their ballots, and if results would change if they did. I started voting in California, where voters have been mailed that information for decades. Here, that info wasn't even available online until quite recently.
He should have taken lessons from McCain on how a concession speech SHOULD be done. That horrible speech he made last night was enough to turn me away from voting for him in ANY lifetime.