Paul Vallas was accused of being a “Democrat in name only.” In this political territory, that could be fatal to state’s attorney candidate Eileen O’Neill Burke.
Grace Nelson, 22, votes early at the Humboldt Park library branch in Chicago’s 26th Ward on March 12, 2024. Paul Vallas, the tough-on-crime Chicago mayoral candidate and public schools CEO,Throughout that campaign, Vallas was dogged by charges that. Though he ran as a Democrat, Vallas received massive political donations from Republican and conservative interests. He took heat for his ties to John Catanzara, the inflammatory president of Chicago’s Fraternal Order of Police chapter.
Harris said he will seek a balance between crime fighting and criminal justice reform. O’Neill Burke, like Vallas, has been pushing a tough-on-crime approach. Harris has charged that O’Neill Burke is also a “Democrat in name only” and is influenced, even controlled, by Republicans.from labor organizations, business owners and finance executives, legal professionals and Democratic political committees, according to a Chicago Tribune analysis.
O’Neill Burke responded: “Every day I’m hearing the same thing. That people are afraid. People are afraid to come downtown — those are the people supporting me. Some of those are business leaders. Nobody asks your political leanings before they come and carjack you.”Meanwhile, Catanzara recently released a video that offered a full-throated endorsement of O’Neill Burke.
The FOP is not taking a position “publicly,” he said, but he exhorted his members to vote for O’Neill Burke in the Democratic primary, even if they are Republicans. “Hold your nose if you have to. But make sure you do it,” Catanzara said.
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