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A SPECIAL SUPPLEMENT FEATURING: Mayoral Candidate WINDY CITY TIMES 2019 CHICAGO ELECTION GUIDE A SPECIAL SUPPLEMENT FEATURING: Mayoral candidate interviews Aldermanic candidate interviews Election charts of endorsements and Windy City Times’ survey results Additional election coverage @windycitytimes /windycitymediagroup @windycitytimes www.windycitymediagroup.com 2 February 2019 elections WINDY CITY TIMES Mayoral candidates hold LGBT forum 3 MAYORAL CANDIDATE INTERVIEWS Paul Vallas 4 Willie Wilson 5 Toni Preckwinkle 6 William Daley 7 Gery Chico 8 Susana Mendoza 9 Amara Enyia 10 La Shawn Ford 11 Lori Lightfoot 12 INDEX Bob Fioretti 13 ALDERMANIC CANDIDATE INTERVIEWS Endorsed by: Colin Bird-Martinez (31st ward) 14 DOWNLOAD Deb Mell (33rd ward) 15 Carlos Ramirez-Rosa (35th ward) 16 THIS WEEK’S ISSUE Andre Vasquez (40th ward) 17 AND BROWSE THE ARCHIVES AT Tom Tunney (44th ward) 18 www.WindyCityTimes.com Austin Baidas (44th ward) 19 Angie Maloney (47th ward) 20 Harry Osterman (48th ward) 21 David Earl Williams III (48th ward) 22 Joe Moore (49th ward) 23 COVERAGE BEGINS ON PAGE 8 Hadden Rowlas Morales Mihalyfy Lightfoot Bird-Martinez Maria Hadden (49th ward) 24 VOL 34, NO. 19 FEB. 13-26, 2019 Andrew Rowlas (50th ward) 25 www.WindyCityMediaGroup.com POPULAR MARK NAGEL Grab co-owner passes away. Photo of Nagel (right) with Jackie Weinberg by Kirk Williamson Guide to the LGBT candidates 26-27 4 THE BATON VOTES Legendary club Read WCT’s survey responses and Election charts 28-29 turns 50. Photo of The Baton’s 31st anniversary cast courtesy of Vote for Lori today! Jim Flint 22 PARTY TIME Equality Illinois holds annual gala. Photo of South Bend Mayor Pete Buttigieg (left) and Illinois governor J.B. Pritzker Lori is Chicago’s first by Kat Fitzgerald (www. 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Photo by WCT staff politicians. … We need to have the CPD solving our problems. They don’t need to be assisting ICE Mayoral candidates [U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement].” “Being undocumented should not be con- sidered a crime,” said McCarthy. But Enyia also discuss LGBT issues called into question how the city could be con- sidered a “sanctuary city” when even its own res- idents are routinely profiled based on their race, at South Loop forum something that transgender persons of color are routinely subjected to. BY MATT SIMONETTE so, and that is exactly the kind of leadership that The forum’s moderators included Imani Ru- I will take to the mayor’s office.” pert-Gordon of Affinity Community Services; Homelessness, anti-transgender violence and ag- Several spoke of ramping up the engagement Kenny Martin-Ocasio of Association of Latinos/ ing resources were among the topics discussed between City Hall and LGBT community advo- as Motivating Action (ALMA); Kim Hunt of Pride as candidates vying in the crowded 2019 mayoral cates, and all said they would be willing to bring Action Tank; and Anthony Galloway of Equality election weighed in on LGBT-related issues at a aboard LGBT staffers, including members of the Illinois. Sponsors included Affinity Communi- Jan. 19 forum at Second Presbyterian Church in city’s trans community. Ford, for example, prom- ty Services, ALMA, the Chicago Black Gay Men’s the South Loop. ised that were he to be elected, the Mayor’s Of- Caucus, Equality Illinois Institute, LGBT Chamber Amara Enyia. Among those candidates who took part in the fice would “lead the way in how to treat people of Commerce of Illinois, Pride Action Tank and Photo by Matt Simonette forum were former Chicago Public Schools CEO and not discriminate.” Mendoza additionally said Windy City Times. Paul Vallas; Cook County Board President Toni that her administration would accept LGBT mem- Preckwinkle; Illinois State Comptroller Susana bers as “their full self.” Mendoza; former Police Superintendent Garry Fioretti said, “It boils down to hiring, training McCarthy; attorney and former Chicago Police and sensitivity; we have to make it stick.” Board President Lori Lightfoot, the only openly All candidates agreed that the city should LGBT candidate; attorneys John Kozlar and Jer- continue engagement with the Getting to Zero Alderman ry Joyce; state Rep. LaShawn Ford (D-Chicago); initiative, launched in Dec. 2018, that if success- former Ald. Robert Fioretti; community organizer ful would eliminate all new HIV transmissions by Amara Enyia; and former Chicago Public Schools 2030; Preckwinkle mentioned the strategy in her Tom Tunney Board President Gery Chico. opening remarks.Lightfoot for her part called for Newly -elected 5th District State Rep. Lamont better funding for Chicago Department of Public Robinson—the first openly Black LGBT state rep- health resources, while Chico said that the city resentative in Illinois’ history—introduced the must do more to bring down the cost of Truvada, 35 YEARS OF LGBTQ LEADERSHIP event, noting that challenges remain for Chica- the oral medication that is used for pre-exposure go’s LGBT residents even after they’ve made great prophylaxis and is central to Getting to Zero’s strides, adding, “We have learned how to exercise strategy. Enyia called for auditing of the city’s ENDORSED BY EQUALITY ILLINOIS our power at the polling place, and we will be out Federally Qualified Health Centers. AND VICTORY FUND in force again as a community.” Mendoza, in her remark calling for increased Most of the candidates overlapped in express- PrEP access, added that it was time to stop think- ing commitments to LGBT equality and inclusion, ing of HIV as “only a gay man’s disease.” with Preckwinkle opening by noting her support A number of candidates also pledged to support Stay in touch of the community, for example, and Vallas detail- continuing Chicago’s status as a “sanctuary city” ing how equity had been an “organic” facet of his for immigrants and refugees. Kozlar, who at 30 is career. Lightfoot said, “We are a community who the youngest person in the race, said that, “The speaks our values and has the opportunity to do first people we need to deport are our corrupt @tomtunneyforalderman @tomtunney44 @tomtunney44
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