Politics is an evil game

Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel has won re-election in a hard-fought runoff against challenger Jesús "Chuy" García. Emanuel defeated García with a margin of around 55 percent to García's 44 percent. Emanuel raised $23 million for the campaign, more than three times García's $6 million. García, the son of Mexican immigrants, shocked the nation's political establishment by forcing Emanuel into the runoff earlier this year.

Emanuel faced public dissatisfaction over his closing of 50 schools in mostly African-American neighbourhoods, his handling of a 2012 teachers' strike, the city's high murder rate and levels of gun violence. One of the strategies of Rahm Emanuel was to try to exacerbate tensions between the Hispanic community of Chicago and the black community in Chicago, but the tensions were not there for him to exploit.

For the past four years we have seen Mayor Emanuel arrive in town with a boatload of money, impose his policies on the people of the city of Chicago. They've favoured a selected few in Chicago through the amassing of large sums of money. Politics is an evil game in which all the players are vying for control. They don't care about the poor people who'll get hurt as long as they get what they want.

Ted Rudow III, MA
Palo Alto, CA, USA