The mayor isn’t very good at this, is she? [Lori Lightfoot]

Chicago Sun-Times ^ | 6/24/2021 | Neil Steinberg

[simpson96]

“Rahm Emanuel was abrasive,” my savvy Chicago pal said. “But if he’s sandpaper, Lori Lightfoot is a belt sander.” (snip)

Now, our current mayor, well, I don’t have much direct personal experience to bring to the table. Lightfoot sat down for an hour with me and my colleague Lauren FitzPatrick for a profile when she was running in 2019. Lightfoot struck me then not as abrasive but guarded, measured, deliberate. Not personable in the look-you-in-the-eye-and-ask-about-your-dog sense. Not much eye contact, really.

But, then, Lightfoot isn’t a politician. Her campaign chairman told me as much while we chatted at an ACLU luncheon. A reluctant campaigner, he said, she had to be dragged into a room of potential supporters, where she’d stand, regarding them with disgust, until poked. Then, she’d murmur something and flee.

Voters claim to like that. They seem to like electing officials who aren’t politicians. Yet they wouldn’t hire a plumber that way, based on complete lack of familiarity with plumbing.

We saw the result again at Wednesday’s bizarre, amateur hour City Council meeting. Maybe we’re used to Rahm, and Rich Daley before him, who turned the Council into a trained seal act, rearing up on command, clapping their flippers together and barking approval in unison in return for a herring delivered in private.

Lightfoot couldn’t ram her new corporation counsel through, then ran to confront Ald. Jeanette Taylor (20th), accusing her of “cutting out a woman of color.”

Casting everything that doesn’t go her way in racial terms is the mayor’s go-to move. I’m sure she’ll dismiss whatever I say as the ravings of a suburban white man.

[simpson96]

[HighSierra5]

Talk about a gruesome twosome.

[caww]

Is it a wonder the city is a disaster!

[rktman]

You should(nt) see mare groot’s “husband”.

[econjack]

...as a former $1.1 million-a-year equity partner at the Mayer Brown law firm who quit to become mayor of Chicago in her first bid for elective office, Lightfoot’s continual insistence that she is a victim of racial oppression gets old.

Not only is she a phony, she can't do the job she was elected to do.

[caww]

Ffinger-pointing confrontation with the Alderman Jeanette Taylor, demands apology from Lightfoot, likens mayor to schoolyard ‘bully’...refusing to speak to her until she apologizes for “disrespecting” Taylor.

[43north]

In a sane world Little Groot would be hospitalized and heavily medicated.

[TigersEye]

Maybe it’s the congenital brain deformity. Just sayin’

[lee martell]

Picture these two on a school playground during recess.
Nose to nose talkin’ sh*t. Talking about the other one’s Mama.

All it would take is for somebody to step up behind either woman and push her HARD, into the other woman. Cat-Fight!!
Oh, the weaves, they would be a-flyin’!

[Fester Chugabrew]

The great City of Chicago and its people can get along just fine despite their lack of a functioning mayor.

[caww]

Reminds me of Detroit....cat fights.

[Fester Chugabrew]

. . . just as the United States of America and its people can get along just fine despite a dysfunctional President.

[cdcdawg]

“Rahm Emanuel was abrasive,” my savvy Chicago pal said. “But if he’s sandpaper, Lori Lightfoot is a belt sander.”

That’s pretty much an admission that Chicago politics is a personality contest between Leftists.

[sauropod]

Just watched a Chicongo news story about this.

[Rummyfan]

“Rahm Emanuel was abrasive,” my savvy Chicago pal said. “But if he’s sandpaper, Lori Lightfoot is a belt sander.”

And a stupid and ugly and racist one at that!

[Rummyfan]

A reluctant campaigner, he said, she had to be dragged into a room of potential supporters, where she’d stand, regarding them with disgust, until poked. Then, she’d murmur something and flee.

So this is Chicago. The machine still exists. She was chosen (for some unknown reason, because she does seem to have the political skills of a badger). Who pushed her and sponsored her?

[Rummyfan]

...as a former $1.1 million-a-year equity partner at the Mayer Brown law firm...

Surprising, because if she has any smarts she has yet to show them in her time as mayor.

[qaz123]

I could be wrong, but I’d love to see her legal work and what she did to make that kind of change.

I’m betting that her legal work and expertise was about as good as Dr Jill’s dissertation.

[chuckee]

Boy, if I ever saw a lose lose photo, that is it with one of the country’s largest cities run by two race baiting unprofessional women in way over their heads

[Paladin2]

Here’s a Fun Fact:

“While Lightfoot was an undergraduate, her older brother, Brian Lightfoot, was arrested in connection with a bank robbery and the shooting of a security guard.”