What experience do you have in the community and how do you think that will help with administering your duties as state representative? When you were running for alderman, you were a supporter of the Clean Power Ordinance and it got a lot of people excited bringing support to your campaign.
As a former juvenile probation officer, it would be safe to say that you are well aware of the issues affecting the youth in our communities. How will you use your role as state representative to decrease crime and implement strategies to keep youth off the streets? What do you think of our educational system? Do you support charter schools and think they are helping bridge the existing educational gap among school districts?
What is your plan to strengthen the economy and bring back jobs to your district? But on that day, he wasn't t in a formal setting, and it was a different Morfin on display than we'd seen in debates. Here we are again, it's time for change.
This is another very important position," he says to her, a man getting out of his van on the street that he chases down, a pair of women who are sitting on their stoop, watching their kids play, and many others. He's currently walking in prime Acevedo country — I spot about 15 signs for the incumbent and just a few for Morfin during my brief time walking with him — but Morfin carries enthusiasm in his speech and a stubbornness in his approach.
Registered republicans and homes with Acevedo signs are not ignored by him — he goes straight to their doorways and rings their bell, hoping to speak with them, however slim his chance to convert them. Many people seem to know Morfin personally, giving him hugs and chit-chatting about their families and goings on. Quite a few others, though they don't know him, take time to discuss their concerns with him for extended periods of time.
Maybe the sunshine is helping put people in an agreeable mood, but it is still rare to see this level of interaction from people who, essentially, are just being bugged to take a flyer and support a stranger. One woman tells Morfin that she believes her neighborhood does need change, and she tells him how, when a relative of hers needed help navigating an immigration situation, she went to the Ward alderman Solis' office for help.
She says she never got to speak with the alderman and was told by an office employee that the alderman's office was not the correct place for her to seek assistance from. The woman says she could understand if the alderman's office could not directly help with her relative's immigration issues, but she wishes that they would have at least given her direction on who she could go to for help.
If not direct assistance, she was looking for guidance, and feels brushed off. Morfin, who is not running for the office that the woman is talking about, agrees and says its time to replace the current elected officials. The approach is typical of Morfin — identify a broad problem like accessibility of officials, and offer himself as a solution. The particular politician doesn't matter, just the wide notions of "status quo" vs. You feel it, even if you don't know anything different, afterwards.
It's a simplified selling point but he hoped it would be effective. Just as he had in past campaigns, Morfin tried to capitalize on what he says are deep feelings of dissatisfaction among community residents. This time around, he at least had a real result to run on, even if its success has been co-opted.
It's a big deal," he told an elderly woman. She's aware that, after many years of community activists fighting for the closure of two of the state's biggest air polluters,.
That the Fisk power plant in Pilsen contributed to many illnesses of community members, and that Solis had opposed incarnations of proposed city ordinances to require it to run a cleaner operation while taking money from Midwest Generation, was the one real solid issue that Morfin ran on in CF: Tell me about your family.
CM: We came here from Mexico. CF: Did you go to public school? CM: All the way through—grammar school, middle school in the Ward, and then high school at Benito Juarez, also in the Ward.
After high school, I went to Northern Illinois University and graduated in CF: Married, children? I do have a child who is 11 years old; never did get married—we share joint custody. CF: Since college, what have you done? CM: I introduced the first ever concept of a workout and nutrition center here in the ward. I was also working as a juvenile probation officer. I took a leave to run in , and after that election, I started working with a brother of mine who has a construction company, establishing more clientele for him.
What does that mean?
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