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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."

(Excerpt) Read more at nbcnews.com ...


TOPICS: Chit/Chat
KEYWORDS: beelzebub; beetlejuice; buhbye; chicago; groot; illinois; lorilightfoot; mayorbeetlejuice; mayorgroot; shesaracist; wellbye
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To: simpson96

41 posted on 02/28/2023 8:43:00 PM PST by bitt (<img src=' 'width=50%>)
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To: Aquamarine

Groot gets the boot, what a hoot!

Until the law suit...because racism or something...


42 posted on 02/28/2023 8:50:02 PM PST by bigbob
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To: bray

No way a white man can be worse than a black woman like Lightfoot.


43 posted on 02/28/2023 8:50:34 PM PST by nwrep
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To: bigbob
Groot gets the boot, what a hoot! Until the law suit..



"'Cause the question is moot!"
44 posted on 02/28/2023 8:52:51 PM PST by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: dynachrome

He knew how to take care of antifart-BLM types.............


45 posted on 02/28/2023 8:54:42 PM PST by doorgunner69 (Let's go Brandon)
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To: simpson96

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.


46 posted on 02/28/2023 8:57:03 PM PST by CaptainPhilFan ( )
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To: dfwgator






(I lost the one that I had put her face on :p )
47 posted on 02/28/2023 8:58:24 PM PST by Bikkuri (I am proud to be a PureBlood.)
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To: Alas Babylon!

Bye, Groot!


48 posted on 02/28/2023 9:03:29 PM PST by Jamestown1630 ("A Republic, if you can keep it.")
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To: simpson96
The runner up is a black Communist supported by the teacher's union who has called for defunding the police.

Hopefully Vallas gets enough support from whites and Hispanics to win.

49 posted on 02/28/2023 9:13:22 PM PST by pierrem15 ("Massacrez-les, car le seigneur connait les siens" )
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To: Persevero

Old bug eyes met her well deserved demise.


50 posted on 02/28/2023 9:42:43 PM PST by 353FMG (Secretly practicing my Putin swagger..)
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GOTTA BE ONE OF THE UGLIEST “WOMEN” IN RECORDED HISTORY.....


51 posted on 02/28/2023 9:58:54 PM PST by basalt (qb's)
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GOTTA BE ONE OF THE UGLIEST “WOMEN” IN RECORDED HISTORY.....


52 posted on 02/28/2023 9:58:54 PM PST by basalt (qb's)
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To: simpson96

I hate left wing box checking. Who cares?


53 posted on 02/28/2023 10:02:03 PM PST by Fledermaus (It's time to get rid of the Three McStooges; Mitch, Kevin and Ronna!)
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To: usconservative

She’s Buckwheats older sister, that’s why


54 posted on 02/28/2023 10:03:52 PM PST by Fledermaus (It's time to get rid of the Three McStooges; Mitch, Kevin and Ronna!)
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To: simpson96

Two firsts (1)First Chicago mayor to lose reelection and (2)First black Chicago mayor to lose reelection.


55 posted on 02/28/2023 10:13:41 PM PST by taxesareforever (Islam is an ideology. It is NOT a religion.)
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To: simpson96

She missed the runoff, because she came in turd place.


56 posted on 02/28/2023 10:15:48 PM PST by Paleo Conservative
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To: dfwgator

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....


57 posted on 02/28/2023 10:21:56 PM PST by basalt (qb's)
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To: llevrok

It’s still undetermined. Racism, Sexism, Homophobia.


58 posted on 02/28/2023 11:54:41 PM PST by Do_Tar (I wish I was kidding.)
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To: seowulf
GMTA! She defiantly can make the space time effect expand, like all creatures of her kind!
59 posted on 03/01/2023 12:39:36 AM PST by mad_as_he$$
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To: simpson96

https://www.thedailybeast.com/chicago-mayor-lori-lightfoot-bragged-about-having-biggest-dick-in-chicago-in-bizarre-rant-lawsuit-claims


60 posted on 03/01/2023 12:48:10 AM PST by Fresh Wind (The last remnants of the Old Republic have been swept away.)
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