Citing Dark Money Tricia Duncan drops out, encourages supporters to back Frumin

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Anonymous wrote:Damn I voted for Tricia on Friday! Is there any way that I can get a new ballot?

Surely there must be a Chicagoan or two here to tell us how it is done.

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Anonymous wrote:Cheh is the one who loses here. She wouldn’t endorse her former campaign treasurer, Frumin. She endorsed Duncan who dropped out in favor of Frumin. Why does Cheh not like Frumin?

She probably wanted a woman to fill her seat. We don't always get what we want.

This is what she told people. She wasn't anti-Frumin.

At the same time, did Tricia Duncan garner a single donation because of the Cheh support?

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Anonymous wrote:I already voted for her. I want a refund.

It does make you wonder why she didn’t do it earlier. What happened over the weekend that brought her around? The NIMBYs upped their anti-Tricia campaign but that was only helping her, in a big way. And what if OCF decides to throw Goulet out of the race for an undeclared contribution? Did she get word that wasn’t going to happen. Is there a poll that no one else knows about. She made the right decision, but why couldn’t it have been made a week or two ago?

What happened is that on Friday, the campaigns filed their monthly reports, and Duncan's was pretty low.

She did the right thing here and the others should follow her lead. If she wants to run again in the future, there will be a lot of people who will have admired this move.

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Anonymous wrote:Damn I voted for Tricia on Friday! Is there any way that I can get a new ballot?

If you can vote in person before the mail in ballot is tabulated, the in-person vote is the one that will count.

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So you're suggesting that people vote twice and depend on the city to catch it?

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Anonymous wrote:I just want to say, as someone who has voted for Eric Goulet, that my vote has nothing to do with whatever advertising "dark" or any other money may have bought. I really haven't seen any advertising other than the campaign signs up and down the roads in Ward 3. My vote has mainly been based on what I have read in these forums, including my positive reaction to Goulet's interest in speaking up and doing something about crime in Ward 3 and my negative reaction to the obvious smear campaign a few people have been engaged in against him. I want to see more Council members who are centrist, business-friendly and serious about reducing out-of-control crime in our city. I want the Ward 3 Councilmember to actually represent Ward 3.

This is why most people are not supporting Goulet. He is being supported by out of state interests and has very little actual in-ward financial support. He has done nothing in the community and now wants to swoop in and play councilmember.

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Anonymous wrote:I just want to say, as someone who has voted for Eric Goulet, that my vote has nothing to do with whatever advertising "dark" or any other money may have bought. I really haven't seen any advertising other than the campaign signs up and down the roads in Ward 3. My vote has mainly been based on what I have read in these forums, including my positive reaction to Goulet's interest in speaking up and doing something about crime in Ward 3 and my negative reaction to the obvious smear campaign a few people have been engaged in against him. I want to see more Council members who are centrist, business-friendly and serious about reducing out-of-control crime in our city. I want the Ward 3 Councilmember to actually represent Ward 3.

This is why most people are not supporting Goulet. He is being supported by out of state interests and has very little actual in-ward financial support. He has done nothing in the community and now wants to swoop in and play councilmember.

Exactly. He is the least likely to represent the residents of Ward 3 since he’s beholden to the out-of-state interests that have bankrolled him.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I already voted for her. I want a refund.

It does make you wonder why she didn’t do it earlier. What happened over the weekend that brought her around? The NIMBYs upped their anti-Tricia campaign but that was only helping her, in a big way. And what if OCF decides to throw Goulet out of the race for an undeclared contribution? Did she get word that wasn’t going to happen. Is there a poll that no one else knows about. She made the right decision, but why couldn’t it have been made a week or two ago?

What happened is that on Friday, the campaigns filed their monthly reports, and Duncan's was pretty low.

She did the right thing here and the others should follow her lead. If she wants to run again in the future, there will be a lot of people who will have admired this move.

Yup, the combo of the flood of money to Goulet and her support hitting a ceiling killed it off. It seems like Goulet/Monash/Thomas are still splitting up support on the more conservative side. I bet bergmann follows Duncan. He is young and probably will run again for some city office. That consolidates the 'normal' center-left democrats (by W3 standards). Open Q if the progressives (really only Beau, but also the high schooler is also there) follow and throw support behind Frumin.

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Anonymous wrote:I just want to say, as someone who has voted for Eric Goulet, that my vote has nothing to do with whatever advertising "dark" or any other money may have bought. I really haven't seen any advertising other than the campaign signs up and down the roads in Ward 3. My vote has mainly been based on what I have read in these forums, including my positive reaction to Goulet's interest in speaking up and doing something about crime in Ward 3 and my negative reaction to the obvious smear campaign a few people have been engaged in against him. I want to see more Council members who are centrist, business-friendly and serious about reducing out-of-control crime in our city. I want the Ward 3 Councilmember to actually represent Ward 3.

This is why most people are not supporting Goulet. He is being supported by out of state interests and has very little actual in-ward financial support. He has done nothing in the community and now wants to swoop in and play councilmember.

Exactly. He is the least likely to represent the residents of Ward 3 since he’s beholden to the out-of-state interests that have bankrolled him.

He has zero clue about w3 schools. That is the most important issue for many of the families around here. I really don't care about charter schools or whatever he seem to know so much about. I really don't think a W3 CM should really be leading about an issue that barely affects us.

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I don’t know about anyone else, but I received a political poll via text on Friday night. I’ve been getting a lot of those but this was short and only about the Ward 3 race. I wonder who funded it/ if it got back to her.

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Anonymous wrote:I just want to say, as someone who has voted for Eric Goulet, that my vote has nothing to do with whatever advertising "dark" or any other money may have bought. I really haven't seen any advertising other than the campaign signs up and down the roads in Ward 3. My vote has mainly been based on what I have read in these forums, including my positive reaction to Goulet's interest in speaking up and doing something about crime in Ward 3 and my negative reaction to the obvious smear campaign a few people have been engaged in against him. I want to see more Council members who are centrist, business-friendly and serious about reducing out-of-control crime in our city. I want the Ward 3 Councilmember to actually represent Ward 3.

This is why most people are not supporting Goulet. He is being supported by out of state interests and has very little actual in-ward financial support. He has done nothing in the community and now wants to swoop in and play councilmember.

Exactly. He is the least likely to represent the residents of Ward 3 since he’s beholden to the out-of-state interests that have bankrolled him.

Thank you Frumin campaign staff. You have hit your talking points.

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Anonymous wrote:I just want to say, as someone who has voted for Eric Goulet, that my vote has nothing to do with whatever advertising "dark" or any other money may have bought. I really haven't seen any advertising other than the campaign signs up and down the roads in Ward 3. My vote has mainly been based on what I have read in these forums, including my positive reaction to Goulet's interest in speaking up and doing something about crime in Ward 3 and my negative reaction to the obvious smear campaign a few people have been engaged in against him. I want to see more Council members who are centrist, business-friendly and serious about reducing out-of-control crime in our city. I want the Ward 3 Councilmember to actually represent Ward 3.

That is a really strange thing to say. Goulet has no ties to Ward 3. None. His campaign is being funded by out-of-state -- and in some cases, out-of-country -- interests. And I don't care how rich you are, if you drop a quarter of a million dollars, you expect something in return.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I just want to say, as someone who has voted for Eric Goulet, that my vote has nothing to do with whatever advertising "dark" or any other money may have bought. I really haven't seen any advertising other than the campaign signs up and down the roads in Ward 3. My vote has mainly been based on what I have read in these forums, including my positive reaction to Goulet's interest in speaking up and doing something about crime in Ward 3 and my negative reaction to the obvious smear campaign a few people have been engaged in against him. I want to see more Council members who are centrist, business-friendly and serious about reducing out-of-control crime in our city. I want the Ward 3 Councilmember to actually represent Ward 3.

This is why most people are not supporting Goulet. He is being supported by out of state interests and has very little actual in-ward financial support. He has done nothing in the community and now wants to swoop in and play councilmember.

Exactly. He is the least likely to represent the residents of Ward 3 since he’s beholden to the out-of-state interests that have bankrolled him.

Thank you Frumin campaign staff. You have hit your talking points.

You understand, these were Duncan's points in suspending her campaign, right?

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I just want to say, as someone who has voted for Eric Goulet, that my vote has nothing to do with whatever advertising "dark" or any other money may have bought. I really haven't seen any advertising other than the campaign signs up and down the roads in Ward 3. My vote has mainly been based on what I have read in these forums, including my positive reaction to Goulet's interest in speaking up and doing something about crime in Ward 3 and my negative reaction to the obvious smear campaign a few people have been engaged in against him. I want to see more Council members who are centrist, business-friendly and serious about reducing out-of-control crime in our city. I want the Ward 3 Councilmember to actually represent Ward 3.

This is why most people are not supporting Goulet. He is being supported by out of state interests and has very little actual in-ward financial support. He has done nothing in the community and now wants to swoop in and play councilmember.

Exactly. He is the least likely to represent the residents of Ward 3 since he’s beholden to the out-of-state interests that have bankrolled him.

Thank you Frumin campaign staff. You have hit your talking points.

Nah, those are Duncan supporter talking points. Frumin's taking the high road.

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Where’s Ben?