Posted on 02/22/2023 3:59:40 PM PST by simpson96
Chicago mayor Lori Lightfoot, D, told South Side voters they should not vote at all if they do not vote to re-elect her, but she now insists that she misspoke during the heat of the moment.
During a campaign event over the weekend in Grand Crossing, the mayor said anyone from the South Side voting for "somebody not named Lightfoot is a vote for Chuy Garcia or Paul Vallas," referring to her challengers.
U.S. Rep. Jesus "Chuy" Garcia and former Chicago Public Schools CEO Paul Vallas are the other frontrunners in the election for Chicago mayor.
"If you want them controlling your fate and your destiny, then stay home," Lightfoot continued. "Then don’t vote."
But after casting her vote Monday at Northeastern Illinois University, Lightfoot told reporters she did not mean to suggest voters should sit out the election.
"If I said anything other than everybody everywhere needs to vote, then I misspoke in the heat of a campaign rally," she said. "But I’ve been very consistent all along saying everybody everywhere needs to step up, and they need to vote just as I said today."
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Another challenger, philanthropist Willie Wilson, said Lightfoot's words were "delusional, divisive, dangerous and disappointing."
Activist Ja’Mal Green, another mayoral candidate, wrote on Twitter that Lightfoot’s "desperation was showing."
"I just showed this to a bus load of new voters & the video made them more motivated than ever to vote against Lightfoot today," he wrote.
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Sure, what Department/Agency doesn't have some kind of freak running it? She's got the great qualifications; black, lesbian, married to a white woman, etc.
I heard she claimed to have the biggest D!ck in Chicago. I disagree, I think she is the biggest D!ck in Chicago.
Northeastern Illinois University. Isn’t that the school that displays a plaque claiming that Abraham Lincoln was a Democrat?
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