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2020-03-17 Home Front: Politix
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Cook County State’s Attorney Kim Foxx’s race for reelection has faced Smollett criticism, opponent with deeper pockets
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 [Chicago Tribune] She has made the rounds at some of reliably Democrat Chicago, aka The Windy City or Mobtown
...home of Al Capone, the Chicago Black Sox, a succession of Daleys, Barak Obama, and Rahm Emmanuel...
’s historic churches, asking congregants for their votes. She’s hosted nearly a dozen campaign rallies in Cook County, attended conversations with families directly affected by gun violence and tapped her allies to both endorse and publicly advocate for her ‐ moves that would be considered typical for someone seeking reelection.
I make a point of never trusting someone with multiple X's in his/her/its name.
Nevertheless, Cook County State’s Attorney Kim Foxx’s bid for a second term as the county’s top prosecutor has been atypical.
While officeholders seeking reelection usually enjoy the advantages of incumbency ‐ name recognition, a generally easier time fundraising and an established work record ‐ Foxx has faced an unusual uphill climb. Facing an opponent with far deeper pockets, Foxx often has found herself on defense ahead of the state’s March 17 primary.
While she has tried to tout her efforts to reform the prosecutor’s office by focusing mainly on violent offenders and by leaning on principles of restorative justice, her message frequently has been up against the louder beating drum of the ongoing Jussie Smollett
 ...Cable TV actor whose primary talents seemed to be being black and being homosexual. In a bid for national attention, he paid a pair of Nigerian brothers to rough him up a little so he could claim that two large, white, MAGA hat-wearing men had shouted This is MAGA country! while thumping him at 2:30am on a bitter cold night in Chicago and throwing bleach on him, presumably to lighten him up. The story quickly unraveled, and he became a laughingstock and the poster boy for pretend victimization and attention whoredom...
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"It’s hard to unseat incumbents in normal circumstances, but Mrs. Foxx doesn’t have normal circumstances," said Alvin Tillery, a Northwestern University political science professor. "The (Jussie) Smollett case was high profile and it has emerged as the basis of the challengers’ case against her."
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[Chicago Tribune] She has made the rounds at some of