Rep. Luis Gutierrez won't run for re-election, 'Chuy' Garcia preps bid to succeed him in Congress

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#1 | Rep. Luis Gutierrez won't run for re-election, 'Chuy' Garcia preps bid to succeed him in Congress datum

Tue Nov 28, 2017 12:08 am

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Longtime Democratic U.S. Rep. Luis Gutierrez won't seek re-election next year, sources said Monday night, setting off a domino effect in Chicago Latino politics.

As a result, Cook County Commissioner Jesus "Chuy" Garcia plans to start gathering signatures to seek Gutierrez's congressional seat, sources said. And 22nd Ward Ald. Ric Munoz plans to runs for Garcia's county board seat.

The decision marks a change from Monday morning, when Gutierrez's campaign filed his paperwork to secure a spot on the March 20 primary ballot. Gutierrez, a high-profile pro-immigration activist, has been in Congress since 1993, representing the 4th District.

http://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/r...5a8k&ocid=ientp

Gutierrez surely won't be missed, but I suspect his replacement won't be much better.

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#2 | RE: Rep. Luis Gutierrez won't run for re-election, 'Chuy' Garcia preps bid to succeed him in Congress datum

Tue Nov 28, 2017 4:50 pm

Gutierrez's sudden withdrawal is causing a great deal of speculation as to why. Consider this from "Daily Mail":

Garcia�s political strength almost certainly has nothing to do with this. Democrats have a +33 edge in IL-04, and Republicans didn�t even bother to run a candidate against Gutierrez last November. In 2014, a strong Republican midterm, Gutierrez won 78/22. He managed to eke out a 77/14 win in the GOP tidal wave of 2010, too. This was as safe a seat for Gutierrez as possible; he could have hung on for another twenty years without even breaking a sweat.

Gutierrez is also the leading Hispanic mouthpiece in Congress and gets plenty of air time to promote his Leftist views on immigration and other such matters.

So why? The "Daily Mail" offers a number of possible causes, though the only one which seems plausible to me is that a scandal of some sort is about to break out involving him, though what sort of scandal could be bad as to alienate his supporters is somewhat beyond me. The person who wrote the article thinks he has made some of deal with the Chicago Democrat machine which benefits him in the long term. So who knows, but his retirement is a bit of a shocker.

https://hotair.com/archives/2017/11/28/h...m_medium=fbpage

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#3 | RE: Rep. Luis Gutierrez won't run for re-election, 'Chuy' Garcia preps bid to succeed him in Congress datum

Tue Nov 28, 2017 7:01 pm

The latest ... I sound like Gutierrez see an opportunity to set up a fiefdom in Puerto Rico.

Luis Gutierrez retiring from Congress to help Puerto Rico rebuild
by Anna Giaritelli
Nov 28, 2017, 2:28 PM

Rep. Luis Gutierrez, D-Ill., announced Tuesday afternoon that he will not seek re-election in 2018 because he wants to help Puerto Rico recover from two disastrous hurricanes.

"I cannot be here in the 4th congressional district and be rebuilding the home of my mom and my dad," Gutierrez said about Puerto Rico. "The place that I love so much � and I'm gonna work really hard until she's completely built to 21st century standards, but I can't do them both."

"I'm not going to run for reelection, but I'm also throwing my support behind Jesus [Chuy] Garcia, to run for the office of representative for the 4th District," Gutierrez added. "I want to make absolutely clear that I'd be a candidate in the congressional district if Jesus Garcia had not volunteered to run."

Gutierrez, a stalwart for immigrant rights and defender of sanctuary city policies, said he has spent 4,000 nights away from home over the past 24 years he has served in Congress.

"It's almost 11 years that I didn't spend in Chicago. It's a lot of time, and life to me is like a novel. It's only a certain number of chapters and as I write this last chapter, I wanna write it with [my family]," Gutierrez said.

The outgoing lawmaker will instead focus on creating a "new fierce framework" for immigrant rights as the parties head toward the 2020 presidential election.

http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/luis-g...article/2641886

Illegitimi non Carborundum

During times of universal deceit, telling the truth becomes a revolutionary act.- Orwell

The further a society drifts from the truth, the more it will hate those who speak it - Orwell

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#4 | RE: Rep. Luis Gutierrez won't run for re-election, 'Chuy' Garcia preps bid to succeed him in Congress datum

Tue Nov 28, 2017 7:15 pm

Excuse my cynicism, but I doubt he's retiring in order to selflessly help rebuild Puerto Rico. There is something in it for him.

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#5 | RE: Rep. Luis Gutierrez won't run for re-election, 'Chuy' Garcia preps bid to succeed him in Congress datum

Wed Nov 29, 2017 4:41 am

Quote: Cincinnatus wrote in post #4
Excuse my cynicism, but I doubt he's retiring in order to selflessly help rebuild Puerto Rico. There is something in it for him.

"The outgoing lawmaker will instead focus on creating a "new fierce framework" for immigrant rights as the parties head toward the 2020 presidential election."

Yeah he's an idealogue first. Since when does being out of power help a blindly partisan advocate create such a fierce thing?

I too cannot help but think there's more to the story than this peaceful transition of power.

When this shite hits the fan it's going to change the course of many political futures...

http://www.cnn.com/2017/11/16/politics/s...ment/index.html

"The demographic most opposed to President Trump is not a racial minority, but a cultural elite." Daniel Greenberg

"Failure to adequately denounce Islamic extremism, not only denies the existence of an absolute moral wrong but inherently diminishes our chances of defeating it." Tulsi Gabbard

"It�s a movement comprised of Americans from all races, religions, backgrounds and beliefs, who want and expect our government to serve the people, and serve the people it will." Donald Trump's Victory Speech 11/9/16

INSIDE EVERY LIBERAL IS A TOTALITARIAN SCREAMING TO GET OUT -- Frontpage mag

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#6 | RE: Rep. Luis Gutierrez won't run for re-election, 'Chuy' Garcia preps bid to succeed him in Congress datum

Wed Nov 29, 2017 4:54 am

GUTIÉRREZ recently said the decision to end Temporary Protected Status in July of 2019 for Haitians is a great injustice."

I wonder what his definition of "temporary" is?

"Our goal should be a system where immigrants, refugees, and asylum-seekers who qualify under our laws are allowed to live and work in the open, playing by established rules that are evenly and humanely enforced, but the President clearly disagrees with that approach."

"playing by the established rules"? we all agree on that. But NOT only when it's convenient Luis. I notice the word ILLEGAL isn't in his vocabulary when he's referring to injustices. We'd like that to be a part of the 'established rules' as well.

These dang ideologues always distort the truth with their rhetoric.