Chairwoman Preckwinkle S Machine Takeover A Far Cry From Days Of Fast Eddie

As gatherings of the Democratic Party go, Wednesday’s meeting of the Cook County Central Committee was a lovefest.

        Paul Rosenfeld, committeeman of the 47th ward, had talked about mounting a challenge. But he wound up endorsing Preckwinkle.

        Without the soda pop tax, her opposition had no issue to run on, and Preckwinkle wound up clobbering Robert Fioretti in last month’s Democratic primary.

        One black committeeman—Niles Sherman of the 21st—got so excited at the prospect of Vrdolyak’s chairmanship that he proclaimed: “This is a coming together process to broaden the horizons for everybody so all can get to the rainbow and stick our hand in that pot of gold.”

  As the meeting went on, Mell leaned forward and, all but talking in Dobry’s ear, began likening him to the former president of apartheid-era South Africa P.W. Botha.

        Man, you know the concept of progressivity has lost all meaning when the Trib’s editorial board—Bruce Rauner’s loudest cheerleader—has embraced it.