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Lori Lightfoot claims she 'misspoke' when telling voters who don't support her not to vote
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| 2/21/2023
| Landon Mion
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."
(snip)
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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Top 2 finishers go to a runoff election on April 4th.
She's polling third.
If she finishes third in the voting Feb. 28th, she's out.
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posted on
02/22/2023 3:59:40 PM PST
by
simpson96
To: simpson96
New lefty dictionary :
I was wrong - I misspoke
To: simpson96
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posted on
02/22/2023 4:04:38 PM PST
by
dfwgator
(Endut! Hoch Hech!)
To: simpson96
If the vote was clean she would finish 3rd or maybe even 4th behind Willie Wilson.
4
posted on
02/22/2023 4:07:44 PM PST
by
Freedumb
To: simpson96
These days, Democrats can say anything and do “almost” anything and they become shoo-ins in elections. Amazing!
5
posted on
02/22/2023 4:10:29 PM PST
by
JoJo354
(We need to get to work, Conservatives!)
To: simpson96
If she is bounced out of office, where could that hobgoblin go ? She has a face
made for radio. She doesn’t seem to be glib enough for a talk show though.
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posted on
02/22/2023 4:13:00 PM PST
by
csvset
(tolerance becomes a crime when attached to evil)
To: simpson96
What is this BS that after the fact you try to weasel out of what you plainly said by claiming you ‘mis-spoke’. Either you lied when you said it or you are lying now. If you don’t know what you are talking about, keep your big trap shut. You are accountable for what you say, so why not just be responsible enough to own up to your BS.
To: csvset
“..If she is bounced out of office, where could that hobgoblin go?...”
I would politely suggest that the BeetleJuice demon quietly and quickly return back to hell from whence it came. Its big daddy is no longer pleased with it not meeting the weekly death quotas that were originally agreed upon. So now, big daddy has a special place reserved for it.
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posted on
02/22/2023 4:30:42 PM PST
by
lgjhn23
("On the 8th day, Satan created the progressive liberal to destroy all the good that God created...")
To: simpson96
Would a penile reduction surgery help her maybe? Asking for a friend...
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posted on
02/22/2023 4:32:50 PM PST
by
know.your.why
(Be not eager to be offended. The narcissism of small differences leads to THE most boring conformity)
To: simpson96
There seems to be a lot of ‘misspeaking’ being announced today...
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posted on
02/22/2023 4:37:44 PM PST
by
Jamestown1630
("A Republic, if you can keep it.")
To: simpson96
She’s admitting it doesn’t matter.
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posted on
02/22/2023 4:45:22 PM PST
by
blackdog
((Z28.310) Forget "Global Warming", new grants are for "Galaxy Dimming")
To: simpson96
I believe her, after all her native language is Klingon.
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posted on
02/22/2023 4:57:39 PM PST
by
muir_redwoods
(Freedom isn't free, liberty isn't liberal and you'll never find anything Right on the Left)
To: muir_redwoods
The Klingons would never rule as poorly....
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posted on
02/22/2023 5:04:28 PM PST
by
M1903A1
("We shed all that is good and virtuous for that which is shoddy and sleazy...and call it progress" )
To: AdmSmith; AnonymousConservative; Arthur Wildfire! March; Berosus; Bockscar; BraveMan; cardinal4; ...
She's lying.
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posted on
02/22/2023 5:07:11 PM PST
by
SunkenCiv
(Imagine an imaginary menagerie manager imagining managing an imaginary menagerie.)
To: simpson96
She’s allowed to be a hatemonger, you see.
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posted on
02/22/2023 5:07:46 PM PST
by
Vision
(Woke is communism and it has no place in America. Election Reform Now! Obama is an evildoer.)
To: muir_redwoods
She’s too ugly to be a Klingon.
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posted on
02/22/2023 5:27:30 PM PST
by
rllngrk33
(It seems the soap box and ballot box have failed, it might be time for the bullet box.)
To: dfwgator
You’re right.
The bar is quite low for Dems like her.
As in on the ground.
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posted on
02/22/2023 6:15:17 PM PST
by
frank ballenger
(You have summoned up a thundercloud. You're gonna hear from me. Anthem by Leonard Cohen)
To: simpson96
” then I misspoke in the heat of a campaign rally”
No, it did not misspeak.
It said exactly what it believes.
.
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posted on
02/22/2023 6:17:24 PM PST
by
TLI
(ITINERIS IMPENDEO VALHALLA)
To: rllngrk33
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posted on
02/22/2023 6:19:15 PM PST
by
frank ballenger
(You have summoned up a thundercloud. You're gonna hear from me. Anthem by Leonard Cohen)
To: rllngrk33
But,she’ll fit right in in the Biden administration
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posted on
02/22/2023 6:29:27 PM PST
by
digger48
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