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‘I Fear No One’: Lightfoot Welcomes Re-Election Challenge Amid Spate of Downtown Violence
WTTW ^ | 5/2/2022 | Heather Cherone

Posted on 05/06/2022 5:55:58 PM PDT by simpson96

Mayor Lori Lightfoot vowed Monday to take on anyone who may seek to deny her a second term in office.

The comments come as a spate of violent incidents downtown threatened to overshadow the mayor’s effort to encourage workers and tourists to return to the Loop and Michigan Avenue and emerge from the COVID-19 pandemic.

After two people were shot behind the Chicago Theatre just after 5 p.m., Sunday night’s performance of the musical “Moulin Rouge” was canceled, a high-profile embarrassment to the mayor who has begun making her case for re-election to Chicago voters rattled by persistently high violent crime rates and COVID-19 cases that are once again rising.

“We’re working our tails off every single day,” Lightfoot said. “Obviously not happy about this weekend.”

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“I’ll run on my record,” Lightfoot said. “I’ll present that to the voters. I feel very good about the accomplishments that we are making today. We are bringing equity and inclusion in real ways with real dollars and commitments all across the city. I think people are starting to see it. We’ve got work to do to make sure that people know everything we’ve done over these almost three years, almost not quite three years. So, I feel very, very comfortable about where we are.”

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To: Libloather

‘I Fear No One’...for I have a 24 hr armed security detail.


21 posted on 05/06/2022 7:34:08 PM PDT by Ken H (Trump won.)
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To: The Sentient Sheep

It’s probably the vote counters that she’s referring to.


22 posted on 05/06/2022 8:12:28 PM PDT by scrabblehack
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To: simpson96

Honey child, with that face of yours I wouldn’t fear God Almighty himself.


23 posted on 05/06/2022 11:18:11 PM PDT by jmacusa (America. Founded by geniuses. Now governed by idiots. )
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To: WMarshal

She needs to get another beautician. That mortician she’s using now isn’t hacking it.


24 posted on 05/06/2022 11:30:46 PM PDT by Gaffer
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To: AdmSmith; AnonymousConservative; Arthur Wildfire! March; Berosus; Bockscar; BraveMan; cardinal4; ...

25 posted on 05/08/2022 7:47:30 AM PDT by SunkenCiv (Imagine an imaginary menagerie manager imagining managing an imaginary menagerie.)
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