Tony Peraica, meanwhile, took his word to the street, as the Republican challenger walked Milwaukee Avenue, shaking hands with shoppers and those on bar stools watching the Bears game.Sunday's activities were a symbolic close to a campaign that has shown two vastly different candidates: Stroger relying on organized support from churches, labor unions and political machines to lead him to victory, while Peraica is primarily self- funding his campaign and receiving scant help from pastors, politicians or machines.
Still, polls have shown it could be the closest big race in the state.
Tribune take here:
Stroger stays in his comfort zone, while Peraica battles for every vote. Tribune editorial:Peraica courted ethnic voters along North Milwaukee Avenue, but said he would continue working in African-American majority wards on the South Side.
"I am not conceding one inch here," Peraica said of the home base of his rival Ald. Todd Stroger (8th).
Stroger joined Blagojevich at the House of Hope on Sunday morning and visited African-American churches well into Sunday evening.
"Why are the churches important? Really, the base of my candidacy is the South Side," Stroger said to reporters after he spoke at Salem Baptist.
If Peraica loses: The Chicago ward bosses who lied for months about County Board President John Stroger's health in order to scam his pliable son onto the ballot will have cheated their way to continued clout over contracts and jobs. They'll have gotten away with mugging every progressive Democrat who voted for Forrest Claypool in the March primary. And they'll have beaten back the reform agenda that many county voters first demanded in a 2002 election.Peraica has the guts and smarts to initiate honest reform.
Break the bosses' stranglehold. You may not get another chance.
VOTE Tony Peraica.
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