5th congressional district special election
Chris Ridgeway | 25 Feb 2009 | 20:47If you live with me on the north side of Chicago, then we’ve got a special election coming up fast: 3 March 2009. We’ve gotta replace Rahm Emmanuael, who moved on to be President Obama’s chief of staff.
There’s a slew of candidates, and I’m just starting to sort them out. Common wisdom would say that the winner of the Democractic primary will win the election itself, but there are a number of active Republican and Green Party candidates having their own contest, so we’ll see.
The Chicago Tribune Editorial board has a list of the candidates, their endorsement, and some video of interviews with each.
The Green primary has been drawing a lot of attention. I think I am going to support Matt Reichel, who was just absolutely stellar at the last candidate forum at Northeastern. He boldly put himself out there and made all of the mainstream candidates look like the hacks they are. http://www.mattreichel.us