Lori Lightfoot claimed she was treated unfairly during her failed re-election bid for mayor because she is a woman of color, not for her failure to curb Chicago’s soaring crime rate.
Lightfoot, the first black woman and openly gay mayor of the Windy City, is now also the first Chicago mayor in 40 years to lose a re-election after trailing behind in third place with only 17.1 percent of votes as of Wednesday morning.
Throughout her term, she has been criticized for her soft-on-crime approach, which has led to massive increases in violence in the city, which is up 52 percent from last year and more than 100 percent from 2021.
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Following her concession speech, a reporter asked her if she was treated unfairly because of her race and gender, with Lightfoot answering: ‘I’m a black woman in America. Of course.’
So the same city that elected a black woman is now racist because they voted for someone else? Sadly, I think she really believes this. She refuses to see that she is a uniquely terrible mayor who alienated almost every single constituency in town from cops to teachers to business people to… everyone. The only people who like her are the criminals and they are not a reliable voting bloc.
I don’t know, Evers did just about everything Lightfoot did except maybe alienating teachers and he was re-elected. Is it because Evers is white and male or do we have to admit that maybe Illinoisans are smarter (or more conservative) than Wisconsinites?
The Chicago Way has always been rooted in the bartering of public corruption. Quid pro quo for criminals, if you prefer. Groot was always 100% her way or no way at all and she used friends and foes alike as sacrificial fodder. Can’t run a successful criminal enterprise that way.
Evers did just about everything Lightfoot did
Nope. You’re overlooking the horrific crime issue in Chicago. Evers is a dolt-with-degree, but he isn’t John Chisholm.
When you are an incumbant and 86% vote against you in a crappy, one party, leftist tyranny…..how awful is that? She must know what its like to look up to Harvey Weinstein in terms of public embarrassment.
>Nope. You’re overlooking the horrific crime issue in Chicago. Evers is a dolt-with-degree, but he isn’t John Chisholm.
Oops, right, I was comparing Mayors to Governors wasn’t I:)?
Sadly, Chicago will experience no benefit from Lightfoot’s departure. Dark blue will just continue to do what dark blue does.