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This all or nothing things annoys me. Johnson has done alright in chicago and we will see how mamdani does. Pritzker, walz are great. Bernie is still pushing forward. Don't get me wrong. Mamdani is the right direction. My senators have done alright but being somewhat progressive is not longer going to cut it going forward.
Johnson has been disappointing, although he's been subject to constant and withering Media attacks his entire mayoralty, which is something Mandani can also expect. Johnson's substantive problem are not his policies but the fact that he's still a little too machined-up and not quite as progressive as we were hoping. For instance, I guess he owes a lot of south side preachers a lot so he has given them sinecures in his administration. Unfortunately some end up in positions where they're way out of their depth like Carter at the CTA.
I think we also tended to see a lot of hopes for reform in Johnson where he had no intention of delivering. He mostly ran as not-Rahm-not-Lightfoot-not-Vallas rather than articulating a positive vision. We kinda hoped he had one but he doesn't really seem to. This is not a problem Mandani has.
I think much of this is after the fact thinking. There was much more hope in his running which is why I want to see what mandani does. How much is talk and how much is walk. Still im glad for johnsons pushback on the rediculous curfew legislation.
I'm still extremely happy Johnson won because the alternative was Vallas. Not looking forward to the next election though because I don't think Johnson can win a second term and I know they're going to pull out some Vallas-like creature.
Johnson's base was extremely hopeful that he would be a forceful reformist and we've been disappointed. Carter is a good example, I guess Carter did recently resign on his own and now the CTA has an acting director, but we were hoping Johnson would fire Carter and the whole board and bring in people who actually care about transit. Johnson, however, doesn't seem to care at all about the CTA and doesn't want to have anything to do with it.
We were hoping Johnson was the second coming of Harold Washington and even though HW's term was chaos due to the council wars at least he was fighting. Johnson doesn't appear to be a fighter.
Can't say Im a big washington fan but yeah transit is a big mistake given how important it is to the people of the city. There is a reason the chicago bicycle federation became the active transit alliance. This was the biggest thing daley had going for him was he was laser focused on infrastructure.