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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Groot gets the boot, what a hoot!
Until the law suit...because racism or something...
No way a white man can be worse than a black woman like Lightfoot.
He knew how to take care of antifart-BLM types.............
Great news, people are thinking!
But, ya know, she’s not a lesbian because her mate of choice is a male cross dresser. That just makes them openly kinky degenerates.
Bye, Groot!
Hopefully Vallas gets enough support from whites and Hispanics to win.
Old bug eyes met her well deserved demise.
GOTTA BE ONE OF THE UGLIEST “WOMEN” IN RECORDED HISTORY.....
GOTTA BE ONE OF THE UGLIEST “WOMEN” IN RECORDED HISTORY.....
I hate left wing box checking. Who cares?
She’s Buckwheats older sister, that’s why
Two firsts (1)First Chicago mayor to lose reelection and (2)First black Chicago mayor to lose reelection.
She missed the runoff, because she came in turd place.
yes and no....shockingly, people here elected a white Mayor...and hes done a decent job considering what he took over. 65% of the city had no street lights...ambulances and police cars were old and broken down. Vacant and burned out houses for block after block. Trash everywhere...but, i give the guy credit, he corrected all that. Recently, Police Chief James Craig retired, and crime is def going back up. While its def not rock bottom, itll never regain the 1 million residents that split over the years. City is 5 times the land size of Boston, with almost the same population. Pockets of the City do ok...but the main streets are still vacant and empty. School system was destroyed years ago...its gotten much better, but again, theres really not much left. Absolute poster child of what democrat policies have done to the cities....
It’s still undetermined. Racism, Sexism, Homophobia.
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