-By Warner Todd Huston
Yet another announced candidate for Chicago Mayor has dropped his bid for the top seat. Wilfredo De Jesus announced Friday that he is giving up his quest and is throwing his support over to Gery Chico.
It really looks like a three person race at this point. Rahm Emanuel, Gery Chico, and Carol Moseley Braun.
If anyone is marking their race cards, an activity so woefully prevalent in Chicago, that leaves still campaigning:
Two Hispanics (Gery Chico, Miguel Del Valle)
Three blacks — two of whom are women (Carol Moseley Braun, Patricia Van Pelt Watkins, and William Walls III)
One Jewish candidate (Rahm Emanuel)
One lonely white dude (Fredrick K. White)
Oh, and three unknowns that have no chance at all, who don’t even have a website, and aren’t worth mentioning… but you can see their names below.
Here are the candidates that are left in the race (and more of these will be dropping soon enough, too):
Mayoral Candidates
Rahm Emanuel – Former U.S. Representative 5th District, West Town, White House Chief of Staff
www.chicagoforrahm.com
Carol Moseley Braun – Former U.S. Senator, Hyde Park resident
http://carolforchicago.com
Gery J. Chico – Former President of the Board of Trustees of the Chicago Public Schools, Downtown Chicago (Loop)
www.gerychicoformayor.com
Miguel Del Valle – Chicago City Clerk, Belmont
www.delvalleformayor.com
William Walls III – Community Activist, former aide to Mayor Harold Washington, Galewood
http://wallsformayor.com
Patricia Van Pelt Watkins – Community Activist, CEO of Target Area Development Corp., E. Garfield Park
www.patriciaforchicago.com
Fredrick K. White – City Employee, Logan Square
www.fredrick-k-white.com
Tyrone Carter – Austin, Music Producer, Author
Fenton C. Patterson – ??, Englewood
Howard Ray – ??, Humbolt Park
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Warner Todd Huston is a Chicago based freelance writer. He has been writing opinion editorials and social criticism since early 2001 and before that he wrote articles on U.S. history for several small American magazines. His political columns are featured on many websites such as Andrew Breitbart’s BigGovernment.com, BigHollywood.com, and BigJournalism.com, as well as RightWingNews.com, CanadaFreePress.com, StoptheACLU.com, AmericanDaily.com, among many, many others. Mr. Huston is also endlessly amused that one of his articles formed the basis of an article in Germany’s Der Spiegel Magazine in 2008.
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