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3 Questions: Preckwinkles losing bets

Dan Mihalopoulos assess the primary night defeats for candidates endorsed by Cook County Board President Toni Preckwinkle. Watch the video at politics.suntimes.com

Updated: March 20, 2014 2:19AM

Election Night was a great night for political types who call themselves progressives, but not so much for the politician many of them want to run against Mayor Rahm Emanuel next year.

Cook County Board President Toni Preckwinkle sided with the loser in the marquee fight between progressives and machine politicians in Tuesdays Democratic primary. Preckwinkle endorsed state Rep. Toni Berrios (D-Chicago), appearing in a campaign video for the daughter of county party boss and nepotism king Joe Berrios.

Not only did Toni Berrios suffer a landslide loss to left-leaning upstart Will Guzzardi, but the two County Board candidates who got the most money from Preckwinkles own political fund also fared poorly at the polls. Incumbent Cook County Commissioner Edwin Reyes (D-Chicago) and rookie candidate Blake Sercye each received the maximum total contributions of $52,500 from Preckwinkle and lost.

So did another Preckwinkle pick: Josina Morita, who got $5,000 from the Preckwinkle For President campaign fund in her failed run for a seat on the Metropolitan Water Reclamation District of Greater Chicago board.

Preckwinkle who ran unopposed in the primary could take some solace in the victories of state Rep. Christian Mitchell (D-Chicago) and all but one of the judicial candidates she endorsed.

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Rough night for some of Preckwinkles picks