Here, however, it is almost beside the point that 12th Ward Ald. George Cardenas is trying to unseat State Sen. Antonio "Tony" Munoz as Committeeman of the 12th Ward, or that Cardenas is backing Munoz's challenger for Munoz's State Senate seat.
For our purposes, the news is that Ald. Cardenas has endorsed Justice Jesse G. Reyes for the Supreme Court and Judge Sandra Gisela Ramos for the Neville, Jr. vacancy on the Appellate Court. Cardenas also departs from the Cook County Democratic Party's slate by endorsing Joseph Chico for the countywide Mason vacancy.
In the 14th Subcircuit, Cardenas urges support for Judge Gerardo Tristan, Jr. (Bertucci vacancy) and Perla Tirado (over Judge Daniel O. Tiernan) for the Lacy vacancy.
This is another palm card I found this morning on Facebook.
Where's the diversity? Cardenas endorses mostly LatinX, Hendon endorses mostly Blacks and Sposato endorses mostly Whites.
ReplyDeleteWelcome to the little leagues, people. Diversity only matters when you need to coalesce groups to sell the top of the ticket. But when you're down ballot, nobody cares. The tribes circle up and go at it. But we tend to be more polite and refined in the 21st Century. We don't use explicit epithets, but codes, like "qualified" or "experienced" and we emphasize certain career choices (prosecutors v. defense) or plaintiff's vs. insurance companies. And there is the use of symbols or color schemes. The Irish with the green and white color schemes. Blacks with the black, red and green schemes (black for the people, green for the grass and red for the soil of Africa -- trying to make this blog somewhat educational). Don't know much about Hispanics apart from the fact that their last names (more often than not) tell their people that they are Hispanic and can assure accurate ethnic identification.
ReplyDeleteIf you want to run for judge in this godforsaken cesspool of a county, this is the game. We are all racist, sexist, jerks when it can be used to our personal advantage. And if you are fortunate enough to win, you get a robe in December and then publicly despair and sigh about the lack of diversity and civility in the system.
That's why I say don't be a hypocrite -- lie, cheat and steal to get yours. So many of the winners who have in the past are now called "your honor." That's even the case when they are sitting on a bar stool at 3:00 pm on a Tuesday across the street from the Daley Center. No, I am not talking about a specific judge, as there are too many who fit that description to out in this comment.
Good luck racists of all hues. Good luck sexists of all genders or intersex.
My name?
"Mr. Rogers Don't Live Here No More."