“We have to get to the root cause of why most of these aldermen end up going to jail, and that’s aldermanic prerogative,” Mendoza said. “And any candidate who believes that we should be defending still aldermanic prerogative, with what we see and the climate that we’re living in, is just totally tone deaf. The fact that their unchecked power exists to the degree that it does is something that needs to stop, and President Preckwinkle still defends aldermanic prerogative, and that needs to stop.”