Posted on 07/02/2021 10:12:03 AM PDT by simpson96
Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot claimed most of her critics do not attack her over her policies but because of her gender and her race.
"About 99% of it,” Lightfoot responded during an interview on WTTW's Chicago Tonight when asked how much of the criticism she faces is either race-based or sex-based.
She later contended that she receives comments that her white, male predecessors would never have received.
"Look at my predecessors. Did people say that Rich Daley held tea sessions with people that he didn't disagree on? Rahm Emanuel was a polite guy who was a uniter? No,” she said.
“Women and people of color are always held to a different standard,” Lightfoot added. “I’ve known that my whole life.”
Those claims are a “cop-out,” according to Chicago’s 20th Ward Alderwoman Jeanette Taylor.
Taylor, who is also a black woman, often feuds with the Chicago mayor and disputed the assertion that she is treated differently than her predecessors.
"The same way that I challenged her, I've challenged Rahm and I've challenged Daley. And I was a community organizer then,” she said. “That's not true. That's the cop-out.”
“At the end of the day, it's her responsibility and duty as our co-worker to pull us together and have us figure out plans that work for our community," Taylor added.
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I guess the other 1% was due to homophobia.
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No, that would be climate change.
Maybe she doesn't know how to do that.
Beetlejuice is an idiot, but she knows how to work the system and appeal to idiot voters.
“Women and people of color are always held to a different standard,” Lightfoot added.”
No they aren’t...you are just a paranoid racist and have a chip on your shoulder.
She must be breaking down if she is resorting to this.
Chicago is a Socialist Utopia.
How about anticommunism?
Any "ism" will suffice as an excuse for incompetence when you're a Democrat mayor of a failing city.
-PJ
Lightfoot is what happens when fewer than a third of voters bother to vote, and about 18% of voters choose the mayor. Even in Chicago, there were better choices.
She’s not using the new excuse phrase - “Hyper Urban Area”.
I have no idea what that means. So I asked my Magic 8-Ball. Here’s what I got:
Chicago government and city administration have had it ALL its own way for as long as anyone can remember.
So-why on earth is it still something that she has to make excuses about??
democrats are all racists. It is an entry criteria to even join the party.
She doesn’t need voters and doesn’t care what they think. SHE counts the ballots.
Dwarf, bug-eyed lowlife looks like one of the “Star Wars” Bar Scene creatures.
I’ve read her referred to as “Beetlejuice” before, but never really appreciated that nickname until this particular clip. O.M.G. She IS Beetlejuice.
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