Breaking Down The Background Of The Chicago Mayoral Race | Zachary Siegel | TMR

Emma is joined by freelance journalist Zachary A. Siegel, to discuss his recent coverage in Bolts Magazine of the Chicago mayoral race.

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Zach Siegel journalist and researcher living in Chicago. And he recently wrote a piece for Boltz magazine which I really really enjoyed entitled " Chicago mayor race police dominate policing dominates over violence prevention programs kind of gives a rundown of the Mayoral race. Where it all stands as well as the candidate's relationship with the issue of crime. Zach thanks so much for coming on today. Yeah happy to be here. For sure. So for people outside of Chicago where we are currently at the big picture in this race which is next Tuesday. Yeah, it's really coming up and the race is really messy there are nine candidates so it's really a crowded packed race and at the moment there are about four candidates who are polling pretty high and they're all kind of the Front Runners. And happy to talk about all of them. I mean where to start with is probably the incumbent mayor Lori Lightfoot. And I think she's really struggled to defend herself and her record from an onslaught of criticism on all sides. And really a crime, yeah it's the number one two three four five issue in the campaign it's really dominated the race. and so the other candidates kind of are all trying to distinguish themselves on that axis. I would say Paul Vallis is another front-runner. And he's running to the right of Lightfoot on crime. And he has the police Union's endorsement. And he yeah wants to hire more police. Wants to prosecute more quote-unquote nuisance crimes. And then after Valles's Chewy Garcia. Jesus Chewie Garcia. And his platform is nearly identical to Lightfoots when it comes to crime. And he kind of frames himself as just a better leader. and someone who can deliver on the agenda. Because I guess his style he's just more he's friendlier. He's nicer. Like these are his kind of words. and comparing himself to Lightfoot Lightfoot was a former Federal prosecutor. And her answers and defenses are very lawyerly. And she's kind of combative and Brash and has made a lot of enemies and alienated a lot of her constituencies. and then lastly I would say Brandon Johnson he's kind of surging in the polls at the moment and a lot of the left-wing groups have mobilized around him. He has the backing of the teachers union. and he really rejects the tough-on-crime position altogether. And his platform is in his words investing in people and that the safest neighborhoods and his eyes don't have more police they have resources. They have good schools, Parks, and Economic Security. And so in Chicago's most violent neighborhoods, he thinks it's not a matter of more police on the beat but a really brutal history of divestment and segregation and redlining has kind of all led to this.