(Chicago Sun Times) — Mayoral hopeful Carol Moseley Braun lashed out against Chicago Sun-Times columnist Neil Steinberg on Wednesday in response to a column criticizing the former U.S. senator. “He is a drunk and a wife beater, and that’s a matter of record. I didn’t make that up. It’s the truth,” Braun said at a […]
(Chicago Sun Times) — Congressman Danny Davis, former U.S. Sen. Carol Moseley Braun and State Sen. James Meeks met privately Wednesday in a last-ditch effort to unite behind a consensus black candidate for mayor. One day before today’s deadline to drop out of the race, the three top African-Americans in the race tried once again […]
(Politics365) — The battle for Mayor in the windy and very chilly city of Chicago has been heating up in recent weeks as the campaign rhetoric is noticeably more racial in edge. Many political junkies watching the closely contested race were mainly focused on the residency eligibility dispute involving former White House Chief of Staff […]
(Chicago Sun Times) — Mayoral candidate Carol Moseley Braun has unveiled her plans to improve the process of allocating contracts to minority- and women-owned businesses. Calling the issue one of “grave importance,” Braun said: “It goes to the heart of defining our community as one of inclusion and diversity or exclusion and cabals.” If elected, […]
(Chicago Sun Times) — Chicago children shouldn’t have to compete for the chance to attend the city’s best performing schools, mayoral candidate Carol Moseley Braun said Thursday. And if she’s elected, Braun said she plans to focus on improving neighborhood schools so parents won’t have to send their kids to magnet and selective enrollment schools […]
(Chicago Sun Times) — When Carol Moseley Braun needed money for her new business, the onetime U.S. senator and ambassador — now one of the big names in the race for Chicago mayor — turned to a former campaign contributor for help. Joseph Stroud, a millionaire TV station owner from Oak Brook, came through in […]
(Uncovered Politics) — The nation’s first black female Senator, who was defeated in her 1998 bid for re-election, announced in early 2003 that she was forming an exploratory committee to run for the Democratic nomination for president. Carol Moseley Braun, now a leading candidate for mayor of Chicago, seemed an unlikely presidential candidate because her […]
(Chicago Tribune) — Seizing on a message she used two decades ago in her historic run for the U.S. Senate, Carol Moseley Braun announced Saturday she was running for Chicago mayor to be a voice for the unheard and an advocate for the underrepresented. “This great city can’t survive if some Chicagoans are treated like […]
(Chicago Tribune) — Though it’s unlikely any of them would turn down an endorsement from Mayor Richard Daley, those seeking to succeed the mayor took issue Wednesday with one his most unpopular decisions: leasing the city’s parking meters. Three mayoral candidates criticized Daley’s handling of the controversial lease and subsequent decision to tap city reserve funds […]
(Chicago Sun Times) — Chicago mayoral hopeful Carol Moseley Braun went on the attack Thursday, slamming rival Rahm Emanuel for “abandoning” President Obama after “pushing policies that [led] to the biggest Democratic Party political loss in 27 years.” “He left the president holding the bag,” Braun asserted in a statement that also claimed Emanuel “cut […]
(Chicago Sun Times) — Former U.S. Sen. Carol Moseley Braun has given her mayoral bid a big but potentially controversial boost — by signing a pair of seasoned campaign architects with winning track records and close ties to Mayor Daley and House Speaker Michael Madigan. The surprise hiring of Victor Reyes — Daley’s onetime political […]