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Lori Lightfoot becomes the first Chicago mayor in 40 years to lose re-election
NBC News ^
| 2/28/2023
| Natasha Korecki
Posted on 02/28/2023 7:31:59 PM PST by simpson96
CHICAGO — Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot lost her bid for re-election Tuesday, ending her historic run as the city’s first Black woman and first openly gay person to serve in the position.
The Democratic incumbent failed to gain enough votes in the nine-person race to move on to an April 4 runoff election, according to projections by The Associated Press.
Paul Vallas, a former CEO of Chicago schools, will face Brandon Johnson, a Cook County commissioner endorsed by the Chicago Teachers Union.
Ideologically, the choice between Vallas and Johnson is stark. Vallas ran as a moderate law-and-order candidate, while Johnson ran on an unabashedly progressive agenda.
But Chicagoans sent a message that they wanted change, rejecting both an incumbent mayor and a sitting congressman. Lightfoot is the first incumbent elected Chicago mayor to lose re-election since 1983, when Jane Byrne, the city's first female mayor, lost her primary.
The mayor conceded defeat Tuesday night at her party in downtown Chicago, saying, "Obviously we didn't win the election today, but I stand here with my head held high."
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TOPICS: Chit/Chat
KEYWORDS: beelzebub; beetlejuice; buhbye; chicago; groot; illinois; lorilightfoot; mayorbeetlejuice; mayorgroot; shesaracist; wellbye
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posted on
02/28/2023 7:31:59 PM PST
by
simpson96
To: simpson96
She only had one term?
Seemed like more...much, much more.
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posted on
02/28/2023 7:34:48 PM PST
by
seowulf
(Civilization begins with order, grows with liberty, and dies with chaos...Will Durant)
To: simpson96
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posted on
02/28/2023 7:35:01 PM PST
by
Persevero
(You cannot comply your way out of tyranny. )
To: simpson96
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posted on
02/28/2023 7:35:10 PM PST
by
dfwgator
(Endut! Hoch Hech!)
To: simpson96
To: seowulf
Yup, she destroyed more of the Chicago spitit in jsut 4 years that any prior mayor...
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posted on
02/28/2023 7:37:06 PM PST
by
PubliusMM
(RKBA; a matter of fact, not opinion. The Dhimmicraps are ALL Traitors. All of them.)
To: simpson96
So long!
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posted on
02/28/2023 7:37:42 PM PST
by
Alas Babylon!
(Gov't declaring misinformation is tyranny: “Who determines what false information is?” )
To: simpson96
Gordon Lightfoot would have been a better mayor.
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posted on
02/28/2023 7:38:36 PM PST
by
dfwgator
(Endut! Hoch Hech!)
To: simpson96
They should re-elect Mayor Daley from 1968. His corpse would do a better job.
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posted on
02/28/2023 7:40:03 PM PST
by
dynachrome
(“We cannot save Ukraine by dooming the US economy.” Rand Paul)
To: simpson96
> Paul Vallas, a former CEO of Chicago schools...
There’s something that should get left off the resume.
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posted on
02/28/2023 7:40:09 PM PST
by
glorgau
To: simpson96
Just sweeping out the trash…
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posted on
02/28/2023 7:41:46 PM PST
by
Skybird
To: seowulf
Look what Biden’s done in only two years...
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posted on
02/28/2023 7:42:12 PM PST
by
gundog
(It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were striking thirteen. )
To: Alas Babylon!
To: simpson96
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posted on
02/28/2023 7:47:15 PM PST
by
Major Matt Mason
(To solve the Democrat problem, the RINO problem must first be solved.)
To: seowulf
Don’t worry, I’m sure the Dems can still come up with someone equally useless.
To: simpson96
Sounds like the other two are worse.
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posted on
02/28/2023 7:54:45 PM PST
by
bray
(Order at TheRepublicofTexas.store)
To: seowulf
Obviously, racism was at play here.
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posted on
02/28/2023 7:54:50 PM PST
by
llevrok
(Pronouns: Me/myself/& I)
To: simpson96
To: Aquamarine
An old Henny Young man line "Every body has a right to be ugly. She abuses the privilege!!
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posted on
02/28/2023 7:57:30 PM PST
by
llevrok
(Pronouns: Me/myself/& I)
To: simpson96
She can go back to trying to kill Karen Black now....
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posted on
02/28/2023 8:01:23 PM PST
by
dead
(https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D_vFiUUcBkc)
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