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Rep. Chuy Garcia launches bid to unseat Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot in next year's crowded campaign [1]
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Date: 2022-11-10
Lightfoot’s team, meanwhile, quickly went on the offensive and tried to use his position in what will likely be a closely divided House against him. “Mr. Garcia spent months dithering on whether to get in this race, saying publicly he’d only run if Democrats lost the House,” her campaign said, adding, “Now, a mere 36 hours after voters reelected him to Congress, and as Republicans prepare to use their new slim majority to strip away our rights, Mr. Garcia is abandoning ship.”
While Garcia is Lightfoot’s most prominent foe, however, he very much doesn’t have the contest to himself. Cook County Commissioner Brandon Johnson entered the race last month weeks after receiving endorsements from Garcia’s old allies at the Chicago Teachers Union and United Working Families: UWF's executive director said that, while the congressman had urged the organization to remain neutral while he made up his mind, “It’s just our experience in previous campaigns that you never get time back and we don’t have unlimited money to make that up.” Johnson on Wednesday also earned the backing of another prominent group, SEIU Local 73.
The field also includes several other notable contenders. One familiar name is self-funding perennial candidate Willie Wilson, who took fourth place in the 2019 race with 10% one year before he waged a doomed independent campaign against Democratic Sen. Dick Durbin. The contest also includes Aldermen Sophia King, Raymond Lopez, and Roderick Sawyer; state Rep. Kam Buckner; and former Chicago Public Schools CEO Paul Vallas, who snagged ninth last time with just 5%.
Other politicians, including former Gov. Pat Quinn, have also been collecting petitions ahead of the Nov. 28 filing deadline without committing to running. If no one earns a majority in the February primary, the two contenders with the most votes would advance to an April 4 general election.
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