{"id":8309,"date":"2015-02-24T22:28:06","date_gmt":"2015-02-25T04:28:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/news.medill.northwestern.edu\/chicago\/?p=8309"},"modified":"2015-02-26T13:52:51","modified_gmt":"2015-02-26T19:52:51","slug":"garcia-spoils-emanuels-election-night-party","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.medill.northwestern.edu\/chicago\/garcia-spoils-emanuels-election-night-party\/","title":{"rendered":"Garcia spoils Emanuel&#8217;s election night party"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>By Phoebe Tollefson<\/p>\n<p>Cook County Commissioner Jesus \u201cChuy\u201d Garcia managed to dampen the mood at Mayor Rahm Emanuel\u2019s election night party Tuesday by temporarily overcoming the mayor\u2019s approximately $30 million war chest and forcing the city\u2019s first-ever runoff election on April 7.<\/p>\n<p>At the Journeyman Plumbers Union Local 130 on the Near West Side, Emanuel supporters waited patiently for their candidate. Emanuel received nearly 46 percent of the vote, just less than the 50-percent-plus-one vote threshold he needed to avoid a runoff. Garcia took\u00a034 percent and Alderman Bob Fioretti took\u00a07 percent.\u00a0Willie Wilson garnered nearly 11 percent of votes and\u00a0William \u201cDock\u201d Walls took 3 percent.<!--more--><\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_8350\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-8350\" style=\"width: 859px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-8350\" src=\"http:\/\/news.medill.northwestern.edu\/chicago\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2015\/02\/rahm-party.jpg\" alt=\"(Tollefson\/MEDILL)\" width=\"859\" height=\"536\" srcset=\"https:\/\/news.medill.northwestern.edu\/chicago\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2015\/02\/rahm-party.jpg 859w, https:\/\/news.medill.northwestern.edu\/chicago\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2015\/02\/rahm-party-300x187.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 859px) 100vw, 859px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-8350\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Supporters from throughout the city stand with Mayor Emanuel. (Phoebe Tollefson\/MEDILL)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Voter turnout sank to\u00a032 percent from 42 percent in Emanuel\u2019s 2011 win. Some observers blamed the frigid temperature. Others thought voters were less enthusiastic about the candidates this year than they were last election.<\/p>\n<p><iframe title=\"Emanuel Election Night\" src=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/120622383?dnt=1&amp;app_id=122963\" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"autoplay; fullscreen\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><em>VIDEO (above): Meg Rauch reports from Mayor Emanuel&#8217;s post-election event.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<div id=\"featurecaption\">Photo at top: Supporters for Rahm Emanuel gather in anticipation of election results. 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At the Journeyman Plumbers Union Local 130 on the Near West Side, Emanuel [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":68,"featured_media":8370,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[321,30,243],"tags":[192],"class_list":["post-8309","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-election2015","category-public-affairs","category-winter-2015","tag-promo"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.6 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Garcia spoils Emanuel&#039;s election night party - Medill Reports Chicago<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/news.medill.northwestern.edu\/chicago\/garcia-spoils-emanuels-election-night-party\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Garcia spoils Emanuel&#039;s election night party - Medill Reports Chicago\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"By Phoebe Tollefson Cook County Commissioner Jesus \u201cChuy\u201d Garcia managed to dampen the mood at Mayor Rahm Emanuel\u2019s election night party Tuesday by temporarily overcoming the mayor\u2019s approximately $30 million war chest and forcing the city\u2019s first-ever runoff election on April 7. 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