Paul McKinley is among 22 candidates (17 Democrats and 5 Republicans) in the race for Jesse Jackson Jr.’s vacated Congressional seat (IL-2), but the only one speaking out against the Chicago machine. He discusses why he is an activist and running for political office. From Legal Insurrection: "Because an injustice has been done in our community. We have just lived under 27–21 — years of Mayor Daley, and now we’re living under Rahm 'Caligulus' Emanuel. We’re living underneath a whole new reign of insanity....The machine don’t like you, and it don’t like me….I am not running against a particular person. I’m running against a machine that has gobbled my community up….if you think it’s normal for your neighborhood to have only vacant houses and only poor people walking around that’s broke and ain’t got no money. Only in our community, where you can walk down the street and you see 8 or 9 or 15 people standing on the corner, you have to ask yourself, ‘what’s wrong with me to make me think that this is alright. What’s wrong with me to think that this is normal for my community to look like this’ You need to ask yourself why do I keep voting for the same people. Listen, if you go along with these people, if you go along with this stuff, it’s your fault. It’s your fault."
GOP Candidate For Jesse Jackson Jr.'s Old Congressional Seat Slams Chicago Machine Politics
