Election Night At The Hideout With A Trio Of Aldermen

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• Aldermen Pat Dowell (pictured second from left), Joe Moreno (pictured second from right), and Ameya Pawar (pictured far right) will help provide analysis on election night at the Hideout—but they’re not allowed to gloat, no matter what happens.

As a sign of my unshakable confidence that a change is gonna come to Chicago politics, I’ll be spending election night at the Hideout with—count ’em—three aldermanic supporters of Mayor Rahm.

So no excuses for not voting.

They’re the middle ground of aldermanic independents who reserve the right to occasionally vote against the mayor—as opposed to most of their aldermanic colleagues, who wouldn’t vote against the mayor if he were selling O’Hare to Milwaukee.

Also, now that Alderman Bob Fioretti threw in with the mayor, will Rahm re-remap the Second Ward so it looks like a real ward and not a string of spaghetti?