Friday, April 27, 2012

Patrick Daley Thompson

The candidate with the yellow teeth.

Yearning for the good old days, some people would vote for a dog if it was named Daley. That will probably change after everyone comes to believe their pension money really is gone. 
Patrick Daley Thompson, a nephew of former Mayor Richard M. Daley, raised more money than all of his Democratic primary opponents combined in his bid to be elected a commissioner of the Metropolitan Water Reclamation District of Greater Chicago, newly released records show.
Despite that edge in campaign cash and an endorsement from the Cook County Democratic Party, he didn’t lead the pack on election night last month.
The 42-year-old attorney finished third of six Democrats seeking one of three seats on the board that oversees sewage treatment in Chicago and most of Cook County. He beat former water-reclamation Commissioner Patricia Young by more than 32,000 votes to win the last Democratic slot on the November ballot and — if past general elections are any indication — should win election in the fall.
He says his third-place finish didn’t surprise him.
“There were five other candidates running who ran for this office before; some had run for additional offices,” says Thompson, the first member of the third generation of Daleys to seek public office. “I knew it was going to be a challenge, but we worked hard. And the way it’s set up, the top three vote-getters win. From that perspective, I was satisfied.”
Thompson’s uncle, the former mayor who left office nearly a year ago, continues to face criticism for the city’s budget problems and particularly for the deal that privatized Chicago’s parking meters. Even so, Thompson has no plans to change his ballot name, “Patrick Daley Thompson,” in the fall.
Any voter unhappiness with the Daley name probably proved less of a factor in Thompson’s third-place finish than historical Cook County political behavior, says former 44th Ward Ald. Dick Simpson, a political science professor at the University of Illinois at Chicago.
Thompson finished third along the North Shore, as well as on Chicago’s North Side and throughout the north suburbs, election records show — heavily white areas won by incumbent Commissioner Debra Shore of Skokie, who was the top primary vote-getter overall.
Thompson finished last in heavily black wards on Chicago’s South Side and Far West Side, which were dominated by the field’s two African-American candidates, led by chemist Kari K. Steele, who finished second. She’s the daughter of Illinois appellate judge and former Chicago Ald. John O. Steele (6th).
Thompson finished first in near South Side and Southwest Side wards, many of which continue to be controlled by white politicians even as they’ve become more racially diverse. They include Thompson’s home 11th Ward — where he lives in the same Bridgeport bungalow where his late grandfather Richard J. Daley raised his family — as well as the 13th Ward, controlled by House Speaker Michael Madigan, and the 14th Ward, led by Ald. Edward M. Burke.Thompson
also finished first in the Southwest Side’s 19th Ward — known for its concentration of police, firefighters and other city workers — and in southwest suburban townships.
“Without party backing in the old machine wards run by the old machine bosses, he wouldn’t have made it,” Simpson says. “That’s the strongest thing I can see in the numbers.”
Simpson doesn’t see anyone beating Thompson, Steele and Shore in November because the others who’ll be on the ballot — Republican Harold “Noonie” Ward and the Green Party’s Julie Samuels, Dave Ehrlich and Karen Roothaan — aren’t as well-known to voters.
Since forming his campaign committee in October, Thompson has raised $257,677. The other five candidates raised a combined $219,327 in the nearly eight months leading to the primary. That includes $99,380 raised by Shore and $49,054 by Steele.
Chicago Suntimes

15 comments:

  1. Anonymous4/27/2012

    You can't go wrong with a Daley.

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  2. Anonymous4/27/2012

    any of you doorbell ringers that still support these nitwits that are stealing your pensions are a bunch of fools!

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  3. Anonymous4/27/2012

    Why does anyone run for Water Reclamation? Because Water Reclamation approves all the vendor contracts for city projects. Its where the graft begins.
    Want to reform government? Start by getting rid of Water Reclamation entirely.
    And just what the hell does the Cook County Board do for us, beside giving themselves pay raises and pensions? Nothing we can't do with out them. Get rid of it. How many alderman do we have, 50!?! Why does the city of Chicago need 50 alderman?
    Machine politics is crushing this city, county, and state.

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  4. Anonymous4/27/2012

    No thanks

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  5. Anonymous4/27/2012

    Pat will lead the city out of recession.

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  6. Anonymous4/27/2012

    Each generation the recessive genes become more prevalent to the naked eye.....and the brainpower dwindles that much more....

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  7. Again , we have another of the anointed families that can't help from running to the trough. They get to hand off our tax dollars to insiders which include family. These dollars are green and that is all they care about. Keep it all in the families, kinda like organized crime. Couldn't get a job at Ricobenes so what the hell lets go to uncle Dicks and get into politics. Pension too............

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  8. Anonymous4/28/2012

    He looks like Flounder in Animal House.

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  9. Anonymous4/28/2012

    looks like a fat beverly country club narrow back, full of bullshit and looking for someone to buy him a drink.

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  10. Anonymous4/28/2012

    You'd have to be a real idiot to vote for this fat pig.

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  11. Anonymous4/29/2012

    Slightly off topic..

    How many beat cars will be working in 22 during Nato May 20-21? 3? 5?

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  12. Anonymous5/01/2012

    I don't live in Beverly anymore but I do know Patrick. Good guy...family guy...not an asshole. He gets judged by family and connections...fair...no but that's the way it goes. He's smarter than the others and is VERY aware that people will be watching. Expect good things from him.

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    1. Anonymous5/01/2012

      You sound like a Daley family kiss ass.

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  13. Anonymous5/03/2012

    put a fork in this irish pig, i think hes done.

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  14. Anonymous10/28/2012

    Patrick Daley Thompson worked with Sterling Bay Developers on the deal to destroy a rare nature preserve known as the Evergreen Park Golf Course. How do you feel when you see those 45 acres of land stripped and leveled at 91st and Western? Were YOUR interests ever considered? Patrick Daley Thompson wants your vote to run the Metropolitan Water Reclamation district of Greater Chicago?! Whose interests will be served with Daley Thompson in that position? Please, Beverly, and those who oppose corruption and environmental destruction, don't reward him with your vote... and spread the word!

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