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Lightfoot Woos Tech Companies During Visit to San Francisco, Even as the City Reels from Violence
https://news.wttw.com/2021/07/08/lightfoot-woos-tech-companies-during-visit-san-francisco-even-city-reels-violence ^ | 7/8/2021 | Heather Cherone

Posted on 07/16/2021 11:15:22 AM PDT by simpson96

Determined to convince tech companies to trade in views of the Golden Gate Bridge for the City of Big Shoulders, Mayor Lori Lightfoot spent Wednesday and Thursday wooing Silicon Valley entrepreneurs, even as the city reeled from the most violent weekend of 2021.

Touting her administration’s efforts to “build the most diverse tech economy in the country” in Chicago, Lightfoot met with leaders of Uber Freight and Salesforce in San Francisco Thursday. The two tech firms announced plans to expand their operations in Chicago before the COVID-19 pandemic up-ended the U.S. economy.

“We have no indication that it is anything but full-steam ahead,” Lightfoot said. “I feel very good about the conversations we had today.”

Describing herself as Chicago’s “advocate-in-chief,” Lightfoot also met with San Francisco Mayor London Breed, presided over a roundtable of venture capital leaders and planned to host a reception Thursday evening.(snip)

The “best and most effective” long-term solution to the violence plaguing Chicago is to grow jobs and opportunities for residents of all neighborhoods, Lightfoot said.

But in the short term, Lightfoot said she was hopeful that a federal strike force — set to arrive in Chicago by the end of July — would tamp down the violence that swept the South and West sides, wounding more than 100 people and killing 18 people.

(Excerpt) Read more at news.wttw.com ...


TOPICS: Chit/Chat
KEYWORDS: bigtech; chicago; crime; violence
If anyone's dumb enough to fall for this, it's London Breed. Good going, Lightfoot, targeting the stupidest.
1 posted on 07/16/2021 11:15:22 AM PDT by simpson96
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To: simpson96

Politicians honestly believe that if you give someone a basketball or a job, they will stop selling crack.

Crack is much more profitable.


2 posted on 07/16/2021 11:19:25 AM PDT by ButThreeLeftsDo (The best things in life aren't things.)
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To: simpson96

Let ‘em leave.

SF native here (and still live kind of close); the city is way too overcrowded. Can’t build ‘up’ because of earthquakes and potential liquifaction, can’t build out, there’s no where to do it. And as shitty as it seems to be these days, more and more people want to live here (SMH).

California needs to lose about 10-15 million people just to have enough water and electrical power.


3 posted on 07/16/2021 11:33:49 AM PDT by RedStateRocker (NUKE MECCA. ABOLISH THE DEA, IRS, AND ATF)
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To: ButThreeLeftsDo

This seems to be a case of inducing a leap from frying pan to fire.


4 posted on 07/16/2021 11:39:13 AM PDT by arthurus (covfefe N)
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To: arthurus

Not even the crazy homeless people in SF would be stupid enough to fall for this.

I will say that in my 35 years in the Chicago area, there was only one tiny notable quake. And there was always plenty of increasingly expensive water.


5 posted on 07/16/2021 11:45:21 AM PDT by The Antiyuppie (When small men cast long shadows, then it is very late in the day.)
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To: simpson96

You would have to be stupid or insane to even visit Chicongo.


6 posted on 07/16/2021 11:50:24 AM PDT by Lurkinanloomin (Natural Born Citizens Are Born Here of Citizen Parents)(Know Islam, No Peace - No Islam, Know Peace)
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To: The Antiyuppie

We lived in One of the FINEST neighborhoods of Chicago between Lake Michigan and Michigan Ave. In Streeterville wher Oprah lived a block away....you couldn’t PAY me to move back now and we had a FABULOUS LIFESTYLE there.


7 posted on 07/16/2021 11:51:39 AM PDT by Ann Archy (Abortion....... The HUMAN Sacrifice to the god of Convenience.)
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To: RedStateRocker

10-15 million?

Easy, just deport illegal aliens.


8 posted on 07/16/2021 11:51:40 AM PDT by Lurkinanloomin (Natural Born Citizens Are Born Here of Citizen Parents)(Know Islam, No Peace - No Islam, Know Peace)
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To: simpson96

Lightfoot to San Fran Nan:

“Yeah, we may be the murder capitol of the world. But at least our streets aren’t strewn with trash, feces and used needles.”


9 posted on 07/16/2021 11:51:59 AM PDT by throwthebumsout
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To: simpson96
So...do you want to be stabbed with a syringe or capped with a "nine"?

Death by fecal-transmitted diseases or by gunfire and arson?

10 posted on 07/16/2021 11:58:20 AM PDT by T.B. Yoits
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To: simpson96

Chicago University student Max Lewis was unavailable for comment.

He was killed by a “stray” bullet riding the subway home last week.

https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3973850/posts?q=1&;page=1


11 posted on 07/16/2021 12:09:22 PM PDT by Moltke (Reasoning with a liberal is like watering a rock in the hope to grow a building.)
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To: simpson96

Imagine that ugly weird looking psycho trying to woo someone. Cringe.


12 posted on 07/16/2021 12:14:05 PM PDT by Richard Axtell (As if.)
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To: arthurus
 
 
To a freakin' blast furnace. Not counting all the crooked political palms that have to be greased. The spirit of Al Capone is still alive and well there.
 
 

13 posted on 07/16/2021 12:14:30 PM PDT by lapsus calami (What's that stink? Code Pink ! ! And their buddy Murtha, too!)
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To: simpson96

Video news report

Report: Chicago Gang Members Now Outnumber Police 10 to 1…

https://www.weaselzippers.us/471967-report-chicago-gang-members-now-outnumber-police-10-to-1/


14 posted on 07/16/2021 12:39:54 PM PDT by KeyLargo
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To: simpson96

Yeah, come to Chicago and commit financial suicide.


15 posted on 07/16/2021 12:45:08 PM PDT by antidemoncrat (somRead more at: https://economicti)
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To: simpson96

Sound like something concocted by the Bee. It’s a stretch, but I guess there are some stupid enough to jump from the frying pan into the fire.


16 posted on 07/16/2021 1:52:30 PM PDT by RetiredTexasVet (Corrupt Slow Joe Biden is the Bolshevik sock puppet.)
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To: simpson96

Moving from San Francisco to Chicago is akin to jumping from the frying pan into the fire.


17 posted on 07/16/2021 7:48:11 PM PDT by BrexitBen
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