Mayoral candidate Jesus 'Chuy' Garcia (left) gives a thumbs up sign after voting on election day. Mayor Rahm Emanuel (right) greets supporters at an election day rally. Garcia forced a runoff election with Emanuel, to be held in April. (Credit: Scott Olson/Getty Images)

CHICAGO (CBS) — Mayoral challenger Jesus “Chuy” Garcia said Mayor Rahm Emanuel needs to answer tough questions about how he plans to handle the city’s financial woes.

The Emanuel campaign has chided for Garcia for not providing specifics on how he’d lower the city’s pension debt, or how he’d pay for his pledge to hire 1,000 new police officers.

“The mayor is the last one, the last person that can criticize anyone else. Why? Because Chicago appears to be in a financial freefall that happened on his watch. The downgrading by Moody’s of the city’s finances is a verdict on his poor stewardship of the city’s finances,” Garcia said during a campaign stop at a senior housing center on the North Side.