Garry McCarthy
Garry McCarthy ran for election for Mayor of Chicago in Illinois. He lost in the general election on February 26, 2019.
Mayor Rahm Emanuel appointed McCarthy as superintendent of the Chicago Police Department in 2011 and dismissed him in 2015.[1] Read more below. From 2006 to 2011, he was police director in Newark, New Jersey. McCarthy was a New York City police officer from 1981 to 2006 and served as deputy commissioner for operations for six years.
Elections
2019
See also: Mayoral election in Chicago, Illinois (2019)
General runoff election
General runoff election for Mayor of Chicago
Lori Lightfoot defeated Toni Preckwinkle in the general runoff election for Mayor of Chicago on April 2, 2019.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ |  | Lori Lightfoot (Nonpartisan) | 73.7 | 386,039 |
 | Toni Preckwinkle (Nonpartisan) | 26.3 | 137,765 | |
| Total votes: 523,804 | |||
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General election
General election for Mayor of Chicago
The following candidates ran in the general election for Mayor of Chicago on February 26, 2019.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ | | Lori Lightfoot (Nonpartisan) | 17.5 | 97,667 |
| ✔ | | Toni Preckwinkle (Nonpartisan) | 16.0 | 89,343 |
 | Bill Daley (Nonpartisan) | 14.8 | 82,294 | |
 | Willie Wilson (Nonpartisan) | 10.6 | 59,072 | |
 | Susana Mendoza (Nonpartisan) | 9.0 | 50,373 | |
 | Amara Enyia (Nonpartisan) | 8.0 | 44,589 | |
 | Jerry Joyce (Nonpartisan) | 7.2 | 40,099 | |
 | Gery Chico (Nonpartisan) | 6.2 | 34,521 | |
 | Paul Vallas (Nonpartisan) | 5.4 | 30,236 | |
 | Garry McCarthy (Nonpartisan) | 2.7 | 14,784 | |
 | La Shawn Ford (Nonpartisan) | 1.0 | 5,606 | |
 | Bob Fioretti (Nonpartisan) | 0.8 | 4,302 | |
 | John Kozlar (Nonpartisan) | 0.4 | 2,349 | |
 | Neal Sáles-Griffin (Nonpartisan) | 0.3 | 1,523 | |
| Other/Write-in votes | 0.0 | 86 | ||
| Total votes: 556,844 | |||
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Withdrawn or disqualified candidates
- Catherine Brown D'Tycoon (Nonpartisan)
- Dorothy Brown (Nonpartisan)
- Ja'Mal Green (Nonpartisan)
- Conrien Hykes Clark (Nonpartisan)
- Sandra Mallory (Nonpartisan)
- Richard Mayers (Nonpartisan)
- Roger Washington (Nonpartisan)
Campaign themes
2019
Ballotpedia survey responses
See also: Chicago 2019 Candidate Survey
Garry McCarthy did not complete Ballotpedia's Chicago candidates survey for 2019.
Campaign website
The following themes were found on McCarthy's 2019 campaign website.
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While Chicago faces a myriad of issues, there are three major categories that must be addressed by the next mayor:
These problems are complicated and inexorably intertwined. Each affects the other and must be addressed holistically to re-establish a healthy city. Crime is driving people out of Chicago. This is reducing our tax base, increasing taxes for those left behind. Lower revenue has resulted in school closings and social service cuts in the neighborhoods most impacted by crime. This vicious cycle results in even more crime, and, under this Mayor, continues unabated. Chicago needs performance-based government. There are no political solutions for practical problems. The bullying politics of our current administration only serve to exacerbate these formidable issues. This Mayor can no longer dodge his responsibilities to every citizen in the city, he must be held accountable for his dereliction of duty. We don’t have to live like this. Chicago doesn’t have to live like this.
Chicagoans have lost trust in Mayor Emanuel because of his inability to tell the truth, endless scandals, and political bullying. His Administration has been riddled with one scandal after another. City Hall has become merely a place for the Mayor to play politics, reward allies, and bully perceived opponents. For these reasons, he has lost the trust of the people of this city. When he was elected Mayor, Rahm promised to make Chicago government open, honest and transparent. He’s broken that promise again and again. We will never solve the problems facing Chicago if we can’t trust the Mayor to do what’s right. As Mayor, I will restore honesty, transparency and trust to our government. EDUCATION Chicago students are fighting to get ahead in the face of the city’s mean-spirited and aggressive campaign to disinvest from them, their neighborhood schools and the families who rely on them. Garry McCarthy’s Neighborhood Schools Reinvestment Plan reinforces Garry’s commitment to Chicago’s children, teachers and families and pushes back against a future that shutters their schools and shuts out students from real world opportunities to get ahead in life. CRIME Every Chicagoan deserves to feel safe. Despite years of promises from the Mayor, crime continues to spread and infect every neighborhood in the city. No place is safe. I’ll be a Mayor who will make fighting crime our first priority. I’ll be ready to lead on day #1 to make this city safe again. FINANCE After years of borrowing against our city’s future, Mayor Emanuel can no longer kick the can down the road. Chicago needs real reform. Shady accounting tricks and constant tax hikes will not help fund our municipal and teacher pensions. Selling off our greatest assets will not keep schools open in our city’s struggling neighborhoods. |
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| —Garry McCarthy's 2019 campaign website[3] | ||
Noteworthy events
Dismissal as Chicago police superintendent, 2015
On December 1, 2015, Mayor Rahm Emanuel dismissed McCarthy from the position of Chicago Police Department superintendent. The dismissal came a week after the release of video footage of Jason Van Dyke, a white police officer, shooting and killing Laquan McDonald, a black teenager.[4]
Emanuel said of the dismissal, "There are systematic challenges that will require sustained reforms. ... [A]t this point and this juncture for the city, given what we’re working on, [McCarthy] has become an issue rather than dealing with the issue, and a distraction."[4]
Earlier on Dec. 1, McCarthy said in an interview with NBC Chicago, "The things that I have authority over are training, policy, and supervision. And in the case of police-related shootings...they're down almost 70 percent over the last four years. That's because we made the policy more stringent, we gave it more supervision, and...every single training cycle talks about tactics now."[5]
See also
2019 Elections
External links
Footnotes
- ↑ Chicago Tribune, "Who is Garry McCarthy?" January 26, 2019
- ↑ Note: This text is quoted verbatim from the original source. Any inconsistencies are attributable to the original source.
- ↑ Garry McCarthy's 2019 campaign website, "Issues," accessed February 18, 2019
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 The New York Times, "Mayor Rahm Emanuel Fires Chicago Police Superintendent," December 1, 2015
- ↑ NBC Chicago, "McCarthy Admits Initial Press Release on Laquan McDonald Shooting Was Wrong: 'That's My Fault,'" December 1, 2015
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