Posted on 06/02/2022 8:01:59 PM PDT by simpson96
A Chicago alderman and mayoral candidate tore into fellow Democrat Mayor Lori Lightfoot on Thursday, accusing her of emboldening criminals with her soft-on-crime policies, which he blames for the city's deadly crime wave.
Alderman Raymond Lopez, who is running to unseat the mayor in the fall elections, told "Jesse Watters Primetime" on Thursday that deadly shootings over Memorial Day weekend and other incidents offer a glimpse into the city's dangerous conditions under Lightfoot's leadership.
"Chicago is in a state of lawlessness right now thanks to the policies of Lori Lightfoot, who has enabled and emboldened criminals to feel that they can literally get away with murder on the streets of Chicago at any day of their choosing," Lopez told Fox News' Jesse Watters.
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"Criminals run around knowing that they have the mayor at their side, that Lori Lightfoot is willing to stand up and enable them to be as lawless as they want," Lopez said. "Going back for the last two years when she first allowed the righteous protesters to come down and destroy the city of Chicago and in every step since she has tried to deflect and divert attention from her failed policies that have led to Chicago the most American of American cities, a global city, to be run into the ground under her leadership."
Lopez also took aim at President Biden and the White House for failing to acknowledge the deadly consequences of Lightfoot's policies.
"We have had six mass shootings in the city of Chicago this year alone…not once has anyone on the national level, let alone our own mayor called out the shooting for what they were: mass shootings," he said.
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The BeetleJuice demon is doing a great job for its Big Daddy.
BeetleJuice ain’t goin’ anywhere till its Big Daddy says so.
This Lopez guy has NO IDEA who he’s really up against...LOL.
She’s SO guilty in so many categories.
Lock her up.
I don’t see a problem, if they want to kill themselves, LET THEM!! put up cameras,live online betting, Pay Per View... better than any hollywood production ever could be
If I recall correctly, it seems to me, that she had been feuding with a Hispanic politician. I wonder if this is the same guy?
If Grute’s such a great mayor that should be re-elected then why is everyone trying to get out of Chicago?
Twenty-two summers ago, I took my family via AMTRAK to CHI and stayed in a small hotel about a block off of Michigan Ave. We traveled everywhere by bus or train on CTA, including a Cubs game, Billy Goat Tavern, Taste of Chicago, Shedd Aquarium, Field Museum, and the Museum of Science & Industry. I should be arrested today if I even thought about doing that same trip with my grandkids.
This guy is gay and goes on Tucker all the time. He is the same guy she fights with.
I do as well. Anyone would be an improvement over this communist looney.
1981 I first visited Chicago for my industry trade show at the Mart. I loved Chicago! After show hours our sales team took clients to cigar lounge restaurants and walked in the city finding below ground level jazz clubs with the greatest jazz musicians which we were blessed to enjoy! Took a boat excursion out onto the lake…. I came home and told my hubby we needed to go back for a vacay..we never did, and beautiful Chicago has been driven into the ground by leftist idiocy. So very sad.
I thought it was. I keep saying, she is a walking birth control advertisement.
Crime City, Killinois
As I’ve called it for a while. Coercive Gerrymandering.
Make the blue cities so bad...the people move to red states...and vote the same way and crap their nests.
Make the blue cities so bad...the people move to red states...and vote the same way and crap their nests.
After the Dems lost the Senate in 2014 Obama said something about getting more Dem voters in red states. This, and opening the borders are getting it done.
Grandstanding. As a democrat, what parts of the Lightfoot agenda has he really voted against. He criticizes her after the fact, but what did he really oppose of her governing at the times of implementation. What did he fight against and vote against?
“As a democrat, what parts of the Lightfoot agenda has he really voted against. He criticizes her after the fact, but what did he really oppose of her governing at the times of implementation. What did he fight against and vote against?”
Lopez dropped a load of F-bombs on Mayor Groot after Groot called Mexicans racists for beating the crap out of her racist BLM goons in June, 2020. It was inspiring to see. Lopez and his Mexican allies are responsible for blowing up the deep state’s plan to unleash BLM across the Midwest.
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