Posted on 04/02/2019 7:15:18 PM PDT by Rennes Templar
(CNN)Lori Lightfoot has been elected the next mayor of Chicago, according to the Associated Press, becoming the first African-American woman picked to lead the country's third-most populous city.
Lightfoot faced a historic runoff Tuesday against Toni Preckwinkle, who is also an African-American woman. "This may not be the outcome we wanted but while I may be disappointed, I'm not disheartened," Preckwinkle told supporters after she called Lightfoot to congratulate her. Mayor Rahm Emanuel was not in the race, as he was not seeking a third term. Lightfoot, 56, a former assistant US attorney, describes herself as "an out and proud black lesbian." When she is sworn in, she will be the first mayor in the Windy City who identifies as a lesbian.
In the wake of the Laquan McDonald scandal -- in which a white police officer, Jason Van Dyke, shot the black teenager 16 times as he walked away from police -- Lightfoot was appointed by Emanuel to head the newly created police accountability task force.
Preckwinkle, 72, is a political insider who heads the Cook County Board and chairs the Cook County Democratic Party. She made education and a $15 minimum wage focal points of her campaign. A Chicago Tribune report in January claimed that Preckwinkle hired the son of a powerful old-school alderman, Ed Burke, to a $100,000 a year job with the county. Burke was recently charged with attempted extortion after the FBI raided his offices in January. In February's general election which had 14 candidates, Lightfoot and Preckwinkle were the top two vote-getters, which led to Tuesday's runoff.
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She crossed my mind. It would be interesting to find out how often this happens.
#2. You got it about Preckwinkle being a communist but what do you have on Lightfoot. Daughter or granddaughter of Claude Lightfoot (CPUSA leader) and his red wife?
Haven’t seen anything on her.
[”an out and proud black lesbian.”]
Hooray!!
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[Well, I guess those who bothered to vote wanted someone different.]
And now, for something completely different.
[ Key positions: 1) Eliminate the Police Department’s gang database; ]
That’s a great idea. The gangbangers will just call in their identification.
No, he’s not much better, but the little snowflakes without two brain cells to rub together weren’t hanging on his every stupid word. Her kind of stupidity is dangerous. As someone said...she’s always wrong but never in doubt. Bad combination.
More and more all the time, since millennials are voting more and they vote with their feeeeeeeelings, not with their brains.
We have our share of many things here
Frodo rational? Alice is in wonderland.
Her father was a janitor/factory worker, so I’m guessing probably not. Claude Lightfoot had no biological children, he adopted two children.
Her gender is “other” and she has a wife.
I want to get off this planet!
https://gossipgist.com/lori-lightfoot
The africanization of America continues..
I'm with you. President Trump's success happened because folks are sick of what the club has done to the nation. THE WORSE are most of the Republican women in the US Senate, House, and Governors. They don't stand up to power, or seem to have a strong conservative moral compass. Perhaps a black gay female will be far enough out of the mainstream to not fall in line with the status quo, and do some good.
I was going to post her image, but I do not have enough eye bleach for every one who might glance at it an be forever blinded ... sorry.
Not who you are but WHAT you are once again
Just wait until it gets warmer and stays warm. There's a whole lotta pent up killin' that ain't happened yet because of the polar vortex. It's fact that the gang bangers do not like the cold weather and the police know the cooler weather has kept the murder rates down.
With a lesbian carpet licker who hates cops as the next mayor, the Van Dyke case and a Crook county states attorney who doesn't prosecute a single black male with a crime there's just no reason for the Chicago PD to do their jobs.
At this point their job is to make damn' sure they get home at the end of every shift and to hell with what happens in the bad neighborhoods in Shitcago.
Let the gang bangers kill each other, who the f**k cares.
Are other cities also dropping 16 felony counts because the defendant is black, a progressive liberal, gay, an actor, politically connected to a former President and the orchestrator of a hate-crime hoax designed to make all white guys look like racist thugs?
Didn't think so.
1) Pass ordinance ensuring affordable housing will be built in all wards; 2) Create a new Mayor’s Office of Public Safety to drive down crime and reform policing; 3) Approve a graduated real estate transfer tax to create more funding to eliminate homelessness; 4) Tax large law and accounting firms to help shore up City Hall finances; 5) Increase the city’s hotel tax by a percentage point or two to fund the arts; 6) Phase out the city’s red light cameras.
Key positions: 1) Eliminate the Police Department’s gang database; 2) Create civilian oversight of the Police Department; 3) Abolish U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement; 4) Eliminate elected city treasurer and city clerk’s offices; 5) Merge the administration of the city’s four pension funds.
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real estate transfer?
this has sealed Chicago’s fate of being a NO Go zone.
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