O’Neill Burke now finds herself embraced by the same county Democratic Party that championed her primary opponent, Clayton Harris III.
Cook County state’s attorney Democratic Party nominee Eileen O’Neill Burke, left, chats with Ald. Debra Silverstein and supporters on April 1, 2024, at the Plumbers Local 130 UA Training Center in Chicago. that was among the closest in recent Cook County history, Eileen O’Neill Burke emerged Monday as the fully backed Democratic Party nominee for state’s attorney and immediately caught a glimpse of what her Republican opponent’s campaign strategy will be this fall.
“It meant so much to me to have the support of all of these elected officials who didn’t do the easy thing. They did the hard thing. And they said this is our candidate,” she said. “This is who we’re going with. It was great. And it meant that they were willing to do what was right for their constituents.”
“Depending on what audience she talked to in the primary, she either championed the misnamed SAFE-T Act or criticized it, praised law enforcement, or rejected their support, pretended to be a law-and-order candidate or a ‘Kim Foxx Lite’ candidate, complimenting Foxx on her coddling violent criminal policies,” Fioretti said in a release, describing O’Neill Burke’s tactics as “bait and switch.”
“Can we just do some on-topic questions first? And I’m happy to respond to that,” Johnson said at a Monday event marking the appointment of his homelessness czar. He never responded to the question. Cook County state’s attorney Democratic Party nominee Eileen O’Neill Burke thanks her husband, John Burke, right, at a victory event on April 1, 2024.
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