Women for Thompson Meet n' Greet Tonight & Kozlar Interview

Kelly Fitzpatrick, PDT's youthful social media manager asked me to spread the event below.
If you are undecided about the aldermanic election, it might be something that you would like to attend.

Kelly is a huge bada$$. She got her current position when she tried to sell a copying machine to the Thompson campaign office.  Young women in politics is the best. So I post this for you, Kelly.

In the interest of fairness, I am also embedding a recent interview with John Kozlar.
The interviewer is pretty obviously into Kozlar going so far as to say "I have a guy for that" in reference to some improvement project they are talking about doing.

The only point of contention I have is------

Kozlar & Thompson, are you aware that there is a Bridgeport 3rd Fridays (http://bridgeportart.com/portfolio/3rd-fridays/)  as well as a Pilsen 2nd Fridays?

Kozlar only mentions one is this interview, and Thompson didn't reference it in his speech about cultural development last night.

Branding 3rd Fridays is long overdue.

THIS WEDNESDAY: Winter Issue Release Party & P.Daley Thompson Discusses His Plans for Culture in the 11th Ward

LINK TO PARTY

Dear All--
Winter has sprung again just in time for the release of the

  WINTER 2014/2015 BRIDGEPORT INTERNATIONAL

(Your only destination for Bridgeport news & ephemera.)


come pick up a copy & drink some beer


this Wednesday @6:30 PM

CO-Prosperity Sphere

3219 S Morgan


Aldermanic hopefull Patrick Daley Thompson (PDT) will be speaking about his plans for hipster reunification in the 11th Ward.



PARTY LINK 

after that we will party & talk about THE FUTURE OF THE PAPER

WANT TO WRITE?
WANT TO HANG?
HAVE JOURNALISTIC & ARTISTIC FANTASIES?
COME BY. 







PARTY LINK 

Unofficial 11th Ward Results--Color-Coded

The Bridgeport International has received this image from a twitter well-wisher. Data is said to be from chicagoelections.com.

Check out this link for some precinct-level percentages.
http://www.chicagoelections.com/en/pctlevel3.asp?Ward=11&elec_code=10&race_number=23

Who Was Behind this website?--Heliport

How come it was never "revealed" who was running this facebook page and website? 

//www.stopthehalstedheliport.com/---defunct. 

And why did this group collect names at the first St. Barbara's public meeting?

Why did no one ever contact me? 

Just wondering. 

http://www.stopthehalstedheliport.com/

Party Update: Kozlar @ Fabulous Freddie's

Our lithe and beautiful intern, @samstecky, is reporting live from John Kozlar's party at Fabulous Freddie's.


He reports thus:

"I'm here"

"No pizza, looks like salad and beer?"

"Kozlar is 'feeling good' "

"He looks shaky and nervous as hell though"

AlderManic Panic

We don't know how many people have voted. At 5PM--only 100 people had voted at the 9th District Police Station. That's about as good and verifiable a sample size as the only poll conducted about the 11th ward race.  The BI had to drag teenagers off the street in-between their runs to Wing Stop and make them vote.


 Early results point to a possible run-off between Thompson and Kozlar. (WTF).


We'll be covering election parties tonight. Kozlar's is at Fabulous Freddie's. BI Intern Sam Stecklow should be arriving soon. Sullivan's is at her office at Morgan and 34th. PDT has announced NO party. MAYBE HE KNEW IT WOULD BE A RUNOFF.

The Bridgeport International has been alternately weeping and shaking with rage all day. We should have gotten interviews we should have gotten the scoop! We should have been FOIAing since the summer. This race feels really important and under researched. 

Questions left unanswered by candidates:

If you were throwing out the first pitch at Sox Stadium—what theme song would you have played?

What is the last move you saw in theaters?

What will you do to bring Rudy home?

If you (hypothetically) caught me writing in chalk on the outside of the aldermanic office “More Trashcans…Long Live the Bridgeport International”

Would you 

A. Call the police and send me to jail. 

B. Have me wash it off with a bucket and water hastily borrowed from Schaller’s Pump.

C. Say “You damn hipster!”

Other:_________

Will you get me a patronage job?

Election Results: Tuesday 7:35

Holy shit. Do we know anything about Kozlar besides the fact that he built a stadium?
What kind of music does he like? Is he Hazel Motes from Flannery O'Connor's novel Wise Blood?
Is this indicative of further results? Did Daley thugs really break ballot seals?