, “I have never met anybody who has managed to piss off every single person they come in contact with—police, fire, teachers, aldermen, businesses, manufacturing.”
One night, in the community room of an upscale condominium on the North Side, near the lakefront, Scott Waguespack, a leading member of the Progressive Reform Caucus, who has been a member of the city council since 2007, watched Lightfoot make a measured pitch to a largely white audience. Afterward, I asked him about the mayor’s combativeness. One explanation for her style, he said, is that she’s trying to end the patronage politics that have long dominated city government.
All eight of Lightfoot’s challengers have vowed to fire David Brown, the police chief she appointed in 2020. Vallas says, in a televised ad, “Crime is out of control and combative leadership is failing us.” Willie Wilson, a businessman who lost a son to gun violence in 1995, said that police should be allowed to chase suspects and “.” Four years ago, after winning fourteen predominantly Black wards, but falling short of the runoff, he endorsed Lightfoot, something he has vowed not to do again.
At a rally this month in Austin, on the western edge of the city, Lightfoot stressed the need to juice the economy—delivering jobs and better living conditions to impoverished areas—to address crime’s root causes. “The traditional strategy of law enforcement first and only, with nothing else, it does not work,” she said. “It has not brought peace.
Byeeeeeeeeee
She’s got what battle weary vets of war call 1000 yard stare or she’s a natural for the remake of beetle juice.
Yikes. Why are dems trying to split her vote?
All crises are in her control, by what she does or doesn’t do.
What does it mean? A lot of deep stinky poo-poo between Tuesday and Nov 2024.
Yet Chicago remains one of the great US cities. Mayors can’t do it all, but many of them need to go really bold in order to turn around the bad things plaguing their cities
How
Don’t see how anyone with any amount of intelligence would re-elect her, which means she will be elected
Beetlejuice has done a great job showing what happens when you vote for people based on surface level attributes. Unfortunately for you in this city, I think Chicago has perfected the election steal to a science. Say it with me Beetlejuice Beetlejuice Beetlejuice!
Have you noticed how she's become Pro-Cop in the runup to the election? Will voters buy it?
Zero confidence in Illinois as a whole
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