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 From the Sun-Times, January 2, 2010
Political brawl brewing on SW Side

BY CAROL MARIN Sun-Times Columnist 

The primary is only a month away. Bring your brass knuckles if you happen to live on the Southwest Side. There's a brawl in the making.

Consider two pitched battles.

One involves Jesus "Chuy" Garcia, a 53-year-old former alderman and state senator. At issue is whether he can evict Commissioner Joseph Mario Moreno, 57, from the seat he has held since 1995 on the Cook County Board. Moreno is a loyalist of the embattled president of the board, Todd Stroger.

The other involves 33-year-old Rudy Lozano Jr., whose community activist father, a supporter of Mayor Harold Washington, was murdered in 1983 just weeks after narrowly losing a race for 22nd Ward alderman.

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