Chicago Mob Linked Alderman Burke's Judicial Slate Comes Up Short

The New York Times reports:

The Cook County Democratic Party’s fading potency was also evident further down the ballot. Edward Burke, a 40-year City Council veteran, is the chairman of the party’s committee for judges. Two of the party’s three picks for vacancies on the state appellate bench lost on Tuesday.

The true powerhouses of local politics today, Alderman Burke said, are unions that have the financial wherewithal as well as members who are willing to campaign door-to-door for labor’s favored candidates. Organized labor unseated several aldermen in the 2007 election, singling out Council members who had supported non-union Wal-Mart’s opening more stores in Chicago.

For a look at Alderman Burke's connection to the Chicago Mob.