47th Ward Alderman Race

I like Matt Reiche because he is in the green party and talkes about transportation issues on his site

 

I lke Ameya Pawar because he wants to create a ward councel so more people can be involved in the city process.

 

Side by side they both look like good candidates. Im wondering if anyone has any other info on this race or would care to sway me one way or the other before I vote tonight.

 

Thanks

 

Tom Jacks looks ok as well but his website seemed a little lacking.

 

I saw that Tom O'Donnell didn't go to a ward forum so thats a pretty big strike for me.

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Permalink Reply by Anne Alt on February 22, 2011 at 6:06pm

It always pays to read about the candidate's history and values and not make assumptions based on party affiliation.

 

The 47th ward results look good.

Permalink Reply by Julie Aberman (Hochstadter) on February 22, 2011 at 6:18pm
At the celebration party with fellow chainlers now at Timber Lanes. Good guy, great ideas!
Permalink Reply by Anne B. on February 22, 2011 at 6:51pm
Stopped by Timber Lanes earlier- what a great outcome!
Permalink Reply by Anne Alt on February 23, 2011 at 1:24am
Very cool!
Permalink Reply by Mark Kenseth on February 23, 2011 at 4:55am
Yesterday morning, after voting for Pawar, I saw O'Donnell had arrived to vote.  Also, I didn't like how the guys outside on the corner were pushing for people to vote for O'Donnell.  Just leave people alone on voting day.
Permalink Reply by Melanie K on February 23, 2011 at 5:06am
I met Pawar in front of the Western Brown Line train station on one of those sub-zero days a week or so ago- he seemed nice enough and had a nice little pamphlet on his proposals, and even thanked me for bicycling to the train station on such a cold day. I hope he works out well.
Permalink Reply by Davo on February 23, 2011 at 5:22am

I am pretty stoked about this. O'Donnel had guys that had to have used a tape measurer to be the 100' min from my polling place asking for concideration. You know the types, ole time chigago guys (Ald Ed Buss from Shadenfreud).

 

As far as the green party thing, I usually vote that way so hopefully one day we will have more than 2 big partys. I know that if third partys recieve a certain % of votes, then that party gets some federal funding. This is true in federal and state elections but I'm not sure if that goes for city elections.

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