#Jesus “Chuy”” Garcia

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U.S. Congressmen Ask President Biden To Provide Sanctions Relief and Other Aid to Cuba   

On November 15, a group of 18 U.S. Congressmen sent a letter to President Biden “with a deep sense of urgency to request immediate action to stabilize Cuba’s energy infrastructure and provide critical humanitarian assistance. The Cuban people are currently facing widespread blackouts and an escalating energy crisis, exacerbated by the impact of Hurricane Rafael. The situation is not only causing…

[luulapants]

Where Illinois politicians stand on Palestine

I sent a letter to Senator Tammy Duckworth today. Illinois is a solidly blue state, and I've dutifully voted blue no matter who since I started voting. Droves of people here have been writing to her and our Congressional Representatives, begging them to support a ceasefire, and all we will get back is a canned party-line response about Israel's right to "self defense" and the need to eradicate Hamas.

They are able to do this, to disregard the outrage of their constituency, because they feel certain that no matter how many letters we send, we will show up and vote for them when the time comes. They are certain their actions have no consequences, and even if they did, they would tell us that it's all our fault for failing in our democratic duty to vote.

Senator Dick Durban received about $154.5k from Israeli lobby groups. He has publicly called for ceasefire anyway. Their money was not worth a genocide.

Senator Tammy Duckworth received over $212k from Israeli lobby groups. She refuses to call for ceasefire. This was her going rate to enable genocide.

In my letter, I told her that I could not see pictures of dead Palestinian babies and turn around and vote for someone, like her, who had their blood on her hands. I told her that "vote blue" cannot extend to genocide. My ethics do not stretch this far.

14/17 representatives for the state of Illinois are Democrats. Of these, only 5 have called for ceasefire.

Jonathan Jackson: $3k from Israeli lobby groups. He has publicly called for ceasefire anyway. Their money was not worth a genocide.

Robin Kelly: $21.5k from Israeli lobby groups. She refuses to call for ceasefire. This was her going rate to enable genocide.

Delia Ramirez: $0 from Israeli lobby groups. She has publicly called for ceasefire. They knew she could not be bought.

Jesus "Chuy" Garcia: $0 from Israeli lobby groups. He has publicly called for ceasefire. They knew he could not be bought.

Mike Quigley: $43.5k from Israeli lobby groups. He refuses to call for ceasefire. This was his going rate to enable genocide.

Sean Casten: $61.5k from Israeli lobby groups. He refuses to call for ceasefire. This was his going rate to enable genocide.

Danny Davis: $0 from Israeli lobby groups. Yet he refuses to call for ceasefire. You can have his cowardice for free.

Raja Krishnamoorthi: $61.5k from Israeli lobby groups. He refuses to call for ceasefire. This was his going rate to enable genocide.

Jan Schakowsky: $58.5k from Israeli lobby groups. She has publicly called for ceasefire anyway. Their money was not worth a genocide.

Brad Schneider: $54k from Israeli lobby groups. He refuses to call for ceasefire. This was his going rate to enable genocide.

Bill Foster: $65.5k from Israeli lobby groups. He refuses to call for ceasefire. This was his going rate to enable genocide.

Mike Bost is a Republican. $14.5k and obviously no ceasefire talk. He will not be moved.

Nikki Budzinski: $25.5k from Israeli lobby groups. She refuses to call for ceasefire. This was her going rate to enable genocide.

Lauren Underwood: $0 from Israeli lobby groups. She has publicly called for ceasefire. They knew she could not be bought.

Mary Miller is a Republican. $0 - they don't even have to pay her to toe the party line. She will not be moved.

Darin LaHood is a Republican. $27.5k and obviously no ceasefire talk. He will not be moved.

Eric Sorenson: $0 from Israeli lobby groups. Yet he refuses to call for ceasefire. You can have his cowardice for free.

The Republicans will be trash regardless, but we cannot let our Democrats skate by thinking there are no consequences for supporting a genocide. They are slaughtering people with your tax dollars, Americans. It's time to get serious. It's time to tell these people that they cannot have our votes for free. It's time to start talking about primary opposition and third party voting. It's time to start exercising our power as voting citizens.

[plethoraworldatlas]

An immigration deal being crafted in the Senate would limit migrants’ ability to claim asylum at the southern border, a White House concession some progressives say shows that President Biden’s leftward shift on immigration as a 2020 candidate was a blip in his long political career.

The deal, which would come in return for new war aid for Ukraine and Israel, is already facing steep odds on Capitol Hill with House Republicans making tougher demands.

“We have talked about the necessary elements to solve this problem,” House Speaker Mike Johnson (R., La.) said after a meeting with Biden on Wednesday at the White House. Among them, he added, “is reform to the broken asylum and parole systems.”

Biden’s willingness to negotiate with Republicans lays bare what many liberal Democrats have long feared—that he is willing to move to the right to cut a deal on immigration and secure funding for the wars.

...

“The president has certainly changed his tune from when he campaigned on how important it was to protect and restore the asylum system,” said Rep. Jesus “Chuy” Garcia (D., Ill.), a member of the Congressional Hispanic Caucus.

...

In his 2020 bid against former President Donald Trump, Biden briefly revived Democratic hopes of setting a more progressive immigration agenda, bringing on backers of his Democratic primary rival, Sen. Bernie Sanders of Vermont, to draft policy proposals to unite the party.

...

On his first day in office, he followed through on several of those pledges. He halted construction of Trump’s border wall, reversed the travel ban on several Muslim-majority countries and ended the Remain in Mexico policy. He also sent Congress an immigration proposal, seen as a Democratic wishlist, including a path to citizenship for the roughly 11 million immigrants who were living in the U.S. illegally when Biden took office.

But there was never a concerted effort to push the bill through the then-Democrat-controlled Congress, as the administration did with other bills that Biden eventually signed into law, such as the bipartisan infrastructure bill.

...

But with mounting political pressure, Biden has reiterated to advisers that his main priority is to see migration plummet and has signed off on certain measures used by Trump, implementing a version of his predecessor’s asylum rule that would make migrants who move through another country on the way and don’t first apply for asylum in that country ineligible for asylum in the U.S.

...

The administration has all but shut down work on several of the campaign ideas Biden laid out, such as finding ways to allow undocumented immigrants who have lived in the U.S. for decades ways to work legally. Officials say the only ideas that are considered now are ones pitched at reducing migrant flows to the border.

“Democrats run away from the immigration issue as soon as things get difficult,” said Marielena Hincapié, a longtime immigration advocate who worked on immigration policy for Biden’s 2020 campaign. “Biden immediately went into reaction mode. Republicans do the complete opposite: They lean in.”

[mariacallous]

In Tuesday’s Chicago mayoral primary, the incumbent, Lori Lightfoot received only 17% of the vote, failed to finish in the top two, and is ineligible to participate in the April runoff that will choose Chicago’s next mayor. Why did this happen, and what does it mean for the future of Chicago politics and, for that matter Democratic party politics?

In much of today’s politics, large organizations are less important than they once were, and candidates for office are individual entrepreneurs who must piece together their own majorities. Chicago is different. Although the fabled Daley “machine” has disappeared, enduring organizations still dominate many of the city’s 50 wards, and large unions can still determine the outcome of city-wide contests.

Two unions stand above the rest in the Windy City — the police and the teachers. Lightfoot managed to lose the confidence of both, creating a huge opportunity for her competitors. Paul Vallas, who finished first with 34% of the vote, was backed by the police, while Brandon Johnson, who came in second with 20%, got the endorsement of the teachers.

The election also had an ideological dimension. Because Chicago has only one major political party, fights that in many places would be waged between the parties take place among Democrats. Johnson ran as an unabashed progressive, Vallas as a law-and-order moderate. Lightfoot, who was expected to govern as a progressive, managed to antagonize many of her potential allies, and the center ground she was left to defend wasn’t large enough, or as enthusiastic as she needed. She won 16 of the 50 wards, almost all with below average turnout. She finished first in only one of the 10 wards with the highest turnout, compared to first place finishes in 6 wards for Vallas and 3 for Johnson. The 2020 redistricting, which featured a struggle between Black and Latino leaders, resulted in 16 wards with Black pluralities or majorities, 14 Latino-dominated wards, 19 white wards, and — for the first time, one Asian ward, which gave 58% of its vote to Vallas, the only white mayoral candidate running this year.

Lightfoot, who is Black, carried most of the Black wards on Chicago’s south side, but with unimpressive margins. Johnson, the other leading Black candidate, did best in the Northeast portion of the city, which blends multiple ethnic groups — Jews, Pakistanis, and East Asians, among others — with white progressives. (He also did well in Hyde Park, where the University of Chicago is located.) Vallas racked up huge wins in Northwest portion of the city, home to large populations of Poles, Ukrainians, and other working- and middle-class whites.

Despite being the only Latino candidate, Jesus “Chuy” Garcia finished a disappointing fourth with less than 14% of the vote. He carried only 6 wards, all led by Latino aldermen and women. In all but one of these wards, Vallas finished second, ahead of all the Black candidates, and Lightfoot’s support was mired in single digits.

This brings us to the April runoff, when Chicago voters will choose between a moderate Democrat and a progressive. Johnson and his allies have already made it clear that they will try to exploit this ideological divide by depicting Vallas as a closet Republican who is too conservative to lead a Democratic city.

Results of similar contests in other big cities don’t paint a consistent picture. In Los Angeles, a progressive Black woman, Karen Bass, defeated a moderate white candidate, real estate developer Rick Caruso, the former head of the city’s Board of Police Commissioners. In New York City, by contrast, Eric Adams, a Black moderate who served as a police officer for more than two decades, defeated several more progressive candidates. It’s hard to know which of these two models Chicago more closely resembles. Here are some leading indicators:

Public safety in Chicago was a huge issue in the first round of the election and is likely to remain so in the runoff. Over time, Johnson has wavered on this issue. Less than a month after George Floyd’s murder, he sponsored a non-binding resolution calling on Cook County (in which Chicago is located) to “redirect funds from policing and incarceration to public services not administered by law enforcement.”  Later, he denied supporting efforts to “defund the police.” It is unclear whether his new stance will be enough to persuade communities battered by violent crime, many of them Black and Latino, to support him.

Nor is it clear how the political tensions between Blacks and Latinos that surface during the redistricting controversy will affect the election. If Johnson’s poor showing in the Latino districts Garcia carried reflects lingering bad feelings between the groups, Latinos could tilt to Vallas or stay home on election day, which would probably doom Johnson’s candidacy. But if the Latino progressives who represent the core of Garcia’s following join forces with the progressive Black candidate, the contest could be competitive, even though Vallas begins with a 14-point edge over Johnson.

Nor, finally, is it clear whether Johnson can mobilize the downscale Black vote that failed to turn out in sufficient numbers for Lightfoot. It is possible that the adverse trends of recent years — crime, inflation, and the pandemic — have led this portion of the electorate to doubt that politics is the most effective way of improving their circumstances.

One thing is clear: Democrats’ prospects in 2024 will be shaped by the salience of the crime issue, turnout among Black voters, and the shifting preferences of Latinos, who are becoming an important swing group. The outcome of the April runoff in Chicago will shed some early light on these trends, and Democrats should be paying attention.

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[officialgleamstar]

[img ID: A screenshot of the 18 progressives who have sponsored the Israeli-Palestinian ceasefire. The main sponsor is Representative Cori Bush of Missouri. The cosponsors are as follows:

Representative Rashida Tlaib of Michigan

Representative Andre Carson of Indiana

Representative Summer L. Lee of Pennsylvania

Representative Delia C. Ramirez of Illinois

Representative Jamaal Bowman of New York

Representative Bonnie Watson Coleman of New Jersey

Representative Jesus G. “Chuy” Garcia of Illinois

Representative Jonathan L. Jackson of Illinois

Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez of New York

Representative Ilhan Omar of Minnesota

Representative Ayanna Pressley of Massachusetts

Representative Nydia M. Velazquez of New York

Representative Barbara Lee of California

Representative Pramila Jayapal of Washington

Representative Greg Casar of Texas

Representative Alma S. Adams of North Carolina

Representative Maxwell Frost of Florida

Most of the representatives cosponsored on October 16th 2023, while the last five cosponsored on October 18th 2023. /end ID]

I'm the "voting is good" guy but I intend to direct basically all of my you-should-vote energy next year towards the reelection of the 18 progressives who've stuck their necks out to call for an Israeli-Palestinian ceasefire. They've dedicated themselves to a basic standard of human decency, and for it they will be punished with an immense tidal wave of financial and political resources seeking to get them kicked out of office, to say nothing of the threats against their lives. Biden's on his own.

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芝加哥市長參選人約翰遜將獲得加西亞支持

（芝加哥時報/快訊）芝加哥市長選舉進入決賽階段,芝加哥太陽時報報道，芝加哥教師工會主席斯泰西·戴維斯·蓋茨Stacy Davis Gates表示，她預計被擊敗的市長挑戰者美國衆議員傑西·加西亞Jesus “Chuy” Garcia將在4月4日的市長決勝runoff選舉中支持布蘭登·約翰遜 Brandon Johnson，這會使芝加哥分裂的進步主義者家庭重新團結起來。 (more…) “”

[college-girl199328]

An element drifting into Chicago is stirring up an already volatile nine-way mayor’s race here, and its name is the Florida governor’s flurry of condemnations and criticisms among the candidates, creating a new opening for the candidates to tee off on one of the poll front-runners—Paul Vallas, who is backed by the same powerful Chicago Fraternal Order of Police group that DeSantis is speaking before on Monday. 

One mayoral candidate, U.S. Rep. Jesus "Chuy" Garcia, called on Vallas to publicly reject DeSantis’ visit and said the Republican Florida governor presented a "danger" to J.B. and "every candidate hoping to hold public office in the land of the Vallas issued a statement Friday fully repudiating "right-wing extremist" DeSantis and his views, including on the LGBT community. 

That still wasn’t Friday, and incumbent Democratic Mayor Lori Lightfoot, who is competing against Vallas in the Feb. 28 election, went further in an interview with NBC News. 

"Ron DeSantis has perfected being a bigoted, racist demagogue, and Paul Vallas is fast on his heels," Lightfoot charged, blasting Vallas for embracing the Chicago FOP, whose conservative leader, John Catanzara, has danced in and out of controversies for criticizing Vallas for appearing before the conservative group Awake Illinois last year, something for which Vallas later apologized.

"So he can say whatever he wants, Lightfoot added that actions speak volumes, and his actions are that he is playing footsie with the far right-wing fringe of the Republican Party, lands in the suburbs here Monday to speak before the Chicago FOP Vallas, the DeSantis visit isn't great timing, and he has attempted to fend off any perception that he's really a Republican—a four-letter word in a city where political leanings are typically measured in shades of blue. 

The fact that a commotion would erupt over a DeSantis visit demonstrates the Florida governor's national rise as a leader within the Republican Party, and the polarizing nature of his politics, best known for the kind of culture wars rejected by the left, is widely expected to launch a presidential campaign.

In an interview Friday, Garcia charged that if Paul Vallas is elected, he will be a different kind of leader and that you should believe him when he says he's not a Republican.

"Vallas' campaign brushed off the pile-on Friday, saying it was indicative of a competitive campaign in crisis with crime skyrocketing and taxes soaring, and a desperate Lori Lightfoot is once again trying to change the subject by resorting to false personal attacks," Vallas' campaign said in a statement to NBC News.

On Friday, Vallas issued a lengthy statement criticizing politics and the hosting of DeSantis, citing the race as being dominated by problematic gun violence and overall crime.

"This decision by the FOP leadership makes that job harder in Chicago for a right-wing extremist like Ron DeSantis, and I am disappointed in the FOP leadership for inviting him to speak to officers," Vallas said.

"The record of trying to erase the LGBTQ community, banning books on Black history, and much more is not in line with my values, the values of our community, or the values of the rank and file police officers, who I believe have no interest in getting swept up in culture wars and national Republican Party politics," Vallas also said.  

[iwriteaboutfeminism]

Co-Sponsors for this Resolution currently include:

Jamaal Bowman (NY-16), Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (NY-14), Ayanna Pressley (MA-07), Ilhan Omar (MN-05), Jesus "Chuy" Garcia (IL-04), Jonathan Jackson (IL-01), Nydia Velazquez (NY-07), and Bonnie Watson Coleman (NJ-12).

Please call and/or email your Congressperson now and ask them to join in the House Resolution to call for a de-escalation and ceasefire in Palestine.

(pdf of the Resolution)

This resolution was written by Rep. Cori Bush (MO-01), and is co-led by Reps. Rashida Tlaib (MI-12), Andre Carson (IN-07) Summer Lee (PA-12), and Delia Remirez (IL-03). (If these people are your Reps, call or email to thank them!!)

This is what I said in my voicemail:

My name is [name]. I live in [city], zip code [xxxxx]. I'm calling to ask the Congressman to join Representatives Cori Bush and Rashida Tlaib in their House Resolution calling for a de-escalation and ceasefire in Palestine.

Find contact info for your Congressperson here:

https://www.house.gov/representatives/find-your-representative

Or call the Capital Switchboard at 202-224-3121 to be connected to their office.

We must never be silent in the face of genocide, especially one carried out with our tax dollars!

Text of the Resolution:

RESOLUTION

Calling for an immediate de-escalation and cease-fire in Israel and occupied Palestine.

Whereas all human life is precious, and the targeting of civilians, no matter their faith or ethnicity, is a violation of international humanitarian law;

Whereas, between October 7 and October 16, 2023, armed violence has claimed the lives of over 2,700 Palestinians and over 1,400 Israelis, including Americans, and wounded thousands more;

Whereas hundreds of thousands of lives are at imminent risk if a cease-fire is not achieved and humanitarian aid is not delivered without delay; and

Whereas the Federal Government holds immense diplomatic power to save Israeli and Palestinian lives: Now, therefore, be it

Resolved, That the House of Representatives—

(1) urges the Biden administration to immediately call for and facilitate deescalation and a cease-fire to urgently end the current violence; and

(2) calls upon the Biden administration to promptly send and facilitate the entry of humanitarian assistance into Gaza.

[kuramirocket]

LITTLE VILLAGE — The iconic arch serving as a gateway into a predominantly Latino neighborhood on Chicago’s Southwest Side is now an official Chicago landmark.

The Little Village arch at 3100 W. 26th St., designed by architect Adrian Lozano, was unanimously approved for landmark status.

Ald. George Cardenas (12th) supported the designation when it was approved, saying he’s proud the city was “finally acknowledging such an asset and putting the funding in place so that we can refurbish and improve for the next generation of  Mexican and Mexican Americans in our community.”

Mexican Americans from throughout the Midwest see 26th Street as their landing port, the place where they feel most comfortable to come and shop, to come and eat, to come and live and work.

The Little Village community “has been suffering greatly” from the disproportionate impact of the coronavirus pandemic and the recent shooting death of 8-year-old Melissa Ortega.

The landmark designation is very important to cast a positive light on the neighborhood.

The Commission on Chicago Landmarks in September granted preliminary landmark status for the arch that welcomes residents and visitors to the neighborhood, which is often referred to as the “Mexican capital of the Midwest.” The honor is the first time an architect of Mexican descent has had a structure get landmark status in Chicago.

At the meeting, the Commissioner said she was shocked it was the first time a Mexican architect’s work was coming before the landmarks board.

“This is 2021. We obviously have a long way to go in our city in becoming more equitable at landmarking and preservation. We are moving beyond buildings. We are stepping into the realm of landmarking cultural components of people’s communities that really represent and reflect them” said the commissioner.

Cardenas said in September he isn’t satisfied with the current maintenance of the arch and hopes landmark status will help identify options for a nonprofit or the city to maintain the “symbol of the community” over time. Cardenas said he is working with CDOT to assess needed work and potential funding.

“Right now the arch is in need of some love,” Cardenas said. “I’m excited. I’m glad it’s finally getting done and [getting] the recognition it deserves.”

The idea for the gateway came in 1987 to celebrate the growing Mexican population in the neighborhood. Then-Ald. Jesus “Chuy” Garcia said the arch should be modeled after Mexican architecture.

Built in 1990 by Lozano, the two-story structure features a tiled archway with two dome towers and a metal banner reading, “Bienvenidos A Little Village,” or, “Welcome to Little Village.”

Lozano — who was born in Aguascalientes, Mexico, and moved to Chicago as a child — also contributed to the National Museum of Mexican Art and Benito Juarez Community Academy.

After the arch was built, former Mexican President Carlos Salinas de Gortari visited Chicago in 1991 and spoke at a rally of about 2,000 Little Village residents. The president donated a bronze clock from Relojes Centenario in Mexico that was installed on the arch.

The Little Village Arch also ushers neighbors and visitors through the commercial corridor known as the second-highest revenue generator in the city.

[plethoraworldatlas]

At least partly to secure support for military aid to Ukraine and Israel, President Biden has been willing recently to negotiate with congressional Republicans on immigration legislation. One result is being worked on in the Senate now, a measure that would restrict migrants' ability to claim asylum at the US-Mexico border while including money for aid to Ukraine and Israel. Such positions return Biden to where he has been on immigration over most of his political career, the Wall Street Journal reports, causing progressives to fear he's abandoned the policies he backed in his presidential campaign When he was running in 2020, Biden's campaign released what the Journal calls "the most liberal immigration proposal of any mainstream Democratic candidate in history." It called for closing privately run immigration detention centers, protecting longtime workers lacking permanent legal status, and reversing many of Donald Trump's border policies. When he took office, Biden did take steps. He stopped construction of the border wall, the travel ban affecting several Muslim-majority countries, and the Remain in Mexico policy. Although he sent legislation to Congress with many of the pieces Democrats wanted, Biden didn't push for it the way he did, say, the bipartisan infrastructure bill. The White House defended Biden's current change, with a spokesperson saying, "Our immigration system is broken, and that is why his administration is working to find a bipartisan agreement." After meeting with Biden on Wednesday, Republican House Speaker Mike Johnson said something similar, per the Journal. "We have talked about the necessary elements to solve this problem," Johnson said, including "reform to the broken asylum and parole systems." Some members of Biden's party are less accepting. "The president has certainly changed his tune from when he campaigned on how important it was to protect and restore the asylum system," said Rep. Jesus "Chuy" Garcia, a member of the Congressional Hispanic Caucus.

"Bipartisan agreement" with the party that worships the idea of family separation and forced Migrant labor camps

[mariacallous]

As Chicagoans went to the polls on Tuesday, early signs pointed to a narrow victory for Paul Vallas, the former head of the city’s public school system and noted educational reformer, over Brandon Johnson, a former social studies teacher turned organizer for the Chicago Teachers Union. Vallas led in the pre-election polls by an average of 3 percentage points, a margin that widened to 6 points when undecided voters were asked whether they leaned toward a candidate. A higher share of Vallas’s supporters said that they were certain to cast their ballots, and more of Johnson’s said that they might change their minds about their choice. Vallas enjoyed a strong lead among voters 60 and older, who are the most likely to vote of all age cohorts, while Johnson was doing best among those 30 and younger, who are typically the least likely to participate.

The ideological battle lines were clearly drawn. Vallas ran as a moderate, Johnson as an unabashed progressive. Johnson wanted to raise taxes on businesses, visitors of Chicago, and wealthy individuals to fund new social programs, while Vallas advocated fiscal restraint. The centerpiece of Vallas’s campaign was a pledge to crack down on violent crime. By contrast, Johnson expressed early sympathy (some would say support) for the “defund the police” movement that erupted after the murder of George Floyd before moderating his position. Not surprisingly, Vallas enjoyed the fervent backing of Chicago’s police union.

When incumbent mayor Rahm Emanuel ran for reelection in 2015, he also faced a progressive candidate, Jesus “Chuy” Garcia, leading some observers to draw parallels between then and now. But these elections differ in two key respects. First: because there was no Black candidate in the 2015 race, the Black vote was up for grabs, and Emanuel won it by a margin of 58 to 42. He also won the white vote by 2 to 1 while Garcia prevailed among Hispanics by a similar margin. This year, Brandon Johnson, a Black candidate with strong community roots, is receiving more than 70 percent support in this key constituency, while Vallas is outpolling Johnson among Hispanics. (Although Vallas is of Greek extraction, his last name — which means “fences” in Spanish — has led some Hispanics to believe that he is one of them.)

The second difference between 2015 and today: eight years ago, no single issue dominated the race, and the electorate was almost equally split among the economy, city finances, education, and crime as its chief concern. This year, violent crime dwarfed all other considerations, and the outcome of the race would be seen as a referendum on the candidates’ competing plans for addressing it.

It is the centrality of voters’ concerns about crime that gave this local contest national implications. A Vallas victory would have reinforced the tough on crime message that the election of Eric Adams in New York City had sent. If Johnson prevailed, his supporters would be able to argue that only a strong progressive message could bring young people and disaffected minority voters to the polls in large enough numbers to overcome those who wanted to intensify the use of tough, racially tinged methods against street-level criminals — and more broadly, to give progressives a chance to prevail over what they regard as the defenders of the status quo.

To the surprise of many veteran observers, this is exactly what happened. With 90,000 absentee ballots still to be counted, Johnson led by a margin of 15,000 votes out of more than 550,000 cast. And because Johnson was receiving nearly 70% of the absentee vote, Vallas already has conceded the race.

Although exit polls are not yet available, preliminary results from Chicago’s 50 wards paint a clear picture. Johnson racked up nearly 80% of the Black vote on Chicago’s South Side and ran strongly among white liberals on the Lakefront. Vallas prevailed in the mostly white working-class wards in the Northwest and Southwest sections of the city, but his margins were not large enough to overcome Johnson’s margins elsewhere. With no Hispanic candidate on the ballot, turnout in the Hispanic-majority wards was reportedly anemic. Overall turnout, though, was higher than usual, which the Johnson campaign attributes in part to a surge among younger voters. We do not yet have enough information to confirm this assessment.

With a strong boost from the Chicago Teachers Union, which has become a dynamo of progressive policies and organizing in the Windy City, Johnson has an opportunity to advance his progressive agenda and become a trendsetter for other cities. Of course, governance always is more complicated than winning elections. The former will require policy approvals from the City Council and tax increases staunchly opposed by the business community to fund his proposed boost in social spending. How he deals with crime increases, underperforming schools, shaky city finances, and a divided Democrat party will determine how successful he is. Against the backdrop of the presidential campaign and national battles for control of Congress, next year won’t be dull.

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The "Sexy Mexican Men" are Jose Lopez, (left, my uncle), and Jesus "Chuy" Barba, a friend of his. The photograph was taken by my great-uncle Samuel Gutierrez (1906-1958) at his studio Foto Estudio Paris; I always enjoy looking for trade mark signs, such as the floor tile and draped curtain which is the same as my parents wedding photos from August 1949, which he also took.

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The Golden Age of Mexican Photography™:  The Fine Art Photography of Samuel Gutierrez & Herminio Lopez, 1930s-1950s

Exhibition at José Vera Fine Art & Antiques - March 5 to April 25, 2011

José Vera Fine Art & Antiques is pleased to announce “The Golden Age of Mexican Photography™: The Fine Art Photography of Samuel Gutierrez & Herminio Lopez, 1930s-1950s.”  The exhibition, which runs from March 5 – April 25, 2011, is the first-ever photographic art exhibit of this rare and unique collection, preserved by Victor Herminio Lopez, son and nephew of the late photographers.

On hiatus from having pursued acting for quite some time, Victor Herminio Lopez decided to attend film school and started experimenting in allegorical, narrative and documentary filmmaking. In the summer of 2000, Lopez traveled to Tijuana, Mexico to visit with and interview his eighty-four year old Great Aunt Celia Gonzalez Gutierrez (1916-2002), for a documentary he was creating on the origin of photography in his family. He had not seen his Great Aunt Celia since his father took him and his brother on a summer road trip twenty-one years earlier. Celia had recently arrived from Tepatitlan, Jalisco (her home of seventy years), and was staying with Lopez’ Aunt Maggie.

It was during this auspicious meeting in 2000 that Lopez got more than he bargained for. His Aunt Celia shared with him her most treasured collection: over 150 original, black and white, medium and large-format photographs and negatives from 1910 to 1958 taken by her late husband, Samuel Gutierrez (1905-1958). She talked intimately and candidly of life with her beloved husband, a talented and upcoming photographer who owned his own photography studio called Foto Estudio Paris.

Celia also told Lopez of the day she invited her nephew, Herminio Lopez (1924-1994), Victor’s father, to visit her in Tepa. Herminio Lopez immediately began working in the dark room of Foto Estudio Paris as a photo retoucher and developer. Thanks to his Aunt Celia, he began courting the beautiful Victoria Garcia (1925-1975), and by the mid 1950s, Herminio and Victoria had established their own photography studio, Foto Estudio Viena, gotten married, and had five children.

Samuel Gutierrez was not able to have children, but that did not matter to his free-spirited wife Celia, who instead became his muse. Together they gave birth to the fine art of black and white photography in Tepatitlan, the jewel of Los Altos (Highlands) of Jalisco; there they married, lived, worked, and loved. Gutierrez was killed in a fatal car accident on May 1, 1958, while in the passenger seat of his own vehicle, returning from a day of shopping for photographic supplies in a nearby town. Celia was completely devastated and never re-married.

Upon arriving back in L.A. after the meeting with his Great Aunt Celia, Lopez quickly shared the news with his older sister, who proceeded to tell him that she also has a box of old, black and white original photographs taken by their father, Herminio. Since then, Lopez has been driven to share these images with the world in an exhibition that will leave the viewer without words.

“The Golden Age of Mexican Photography™: The Fine Art Photography of Samuel Gutierrez & Herminio Lopez, 1930s-1950s”, the first exhibition of this rare collection of photographs, will be on view from March 5 through April 25, 2011. The opening reception is Saturday, March 5 from 7:00 – 10:00 pm. There will also be a reception on April 9, 2011 from 6:00 – 9:00 pm in conjunction with the Second Saturday NELA Art Walk. The events are free and open to the public.

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'Your Comments Are Disgusting’: Former ICE Director Blasts Dem Lawmaker at Explosive Immigration Hearing

‘Your Comments Are Disgusting’: Former ICE Director Blasts Dem Lawmaker at Explosive Immigration Hearing

PJ Media:

Former ICE Director Tom Homan fired back at Rep. Jesus “Chuy” Garcia (D-Ill.) for suggesting that Homan might not care about separating families at the U.S.-Mexico border “because these children don’t look like the children” that are around him.

“I don’t get it. Have you ever held a deceased child in your arms?” Garcia said on Friday during a House Oversight and…