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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Let me speak up for the millennials who are voting with their “feelings” (and I’m closer to the 19th than to the 21st).
Something is very, very wrong. We all feel it. There is a social and political crisis in Western Europe and in America which threatens everything we love, which is one of the reasons we are here.
The two major parties in the US and the UK (I don’t follow continental politics) are both split and played out. The “conservative” parties (GOP and Tories) have contempt for their voters and love for globalism and the personal rewards it can bring.
The unfolding Brexit disaster in the UK and the #resistance within the Executive Branch to a legally elected President are two sides of the same coin.
Those of us looking at ten-twenty years before we are gone experience this differently than the young.
The ascension of the Leftist tendency is due solely to the fact that their politicians AFFIRM and VALIDATE the view that following the post-1945 global capitalist path to dissolution of borders and atomization of peoples is leading us to disaster, while the Tories and GOPe policies (except for Trump) say, basically, “pay no attention to that man behind the curtain”.
Tax cuts and cheap labor are not going to win hearts and minds of a frightened generation who have been cheated out of their birthright.
As long as we allow voting, radical change is coming. If the GOP and the Tory party in the UK do not cut their ties to the Davoisie, they will be gone in ten years or less.
Just what they deserve: a rug muncher of the highest order!
It appears that they anticipate a LOT more in the future!
Oh; they'll get touched...
Genesis 18:20-21
20. Then the LORD said, "The outcry against Sodom and Gomorrah is so great and their sin so grievous
21. that I will go down and see if what they have done is as bad as the outcry that has reached me. If not, I will know."
Genesis 19:4-7
4. Before they had gone to bed, all the men from every part of the city of Sodom--both young and old--surrounded the house.
5. They called to Lot, "Where are the men who came to you tonight? Bring them out to us so that we can have sex with them."
6. Lot went outside to meet them and shut the door behind him
7. and said, "No, my friends. Don't do this wicked thing.
Leviticus niv
18:22 Do not have sexual relations with a man as one does with a woman; that is detestable.
20:13 If a man has sexual relations with a man as one does with a woman, both of them have done what is detestable. They are to be put to death; their blood will be on their own heads.
Isaiah 3:9 The look on their faces testifies against them; they parade their sin like Sodom; they do not hide it. Woe to them! They have brought disaster upon themselves.
2 Peter 2:13b Their idea of pleasure is to carouse in broad daylight. They are blots and blemishes, reveling in their pleasures while they feast with you.
Ezekiel 16:49-50
49. "`Now this was the sin of your sister Sodom: She and her daughters were arrogant, overfed and unconcerned; they did not help the poor and needy.
50. They were haughty and did detestable things before me. Therefore I did away with them as you have seen.
1. But there were also false prophets among the people, just as there will be false teachers among you. They will secretly introduce destructive heresies, even denying the sovereign Lord who bought them--bringing swift destruction on themselves.
2. Many will follow their shameful ways and will bring the way of truth into disrepute.
3. In their greed these teachers will exploit you with stories they have made up. Their condemnation has long been hanging over them, and their destruction has not been sleeping.
4. For if God did not spare angels when they sinned, but sent them to hell, putting them into gloomy dungeons to be held for judgment;
5. if he did not spare the ancient world when he brought the flood on its ungodly people, but protected Noah, a preacher of righteousness, and seven others;
6. if he condemned the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah by burning them to ashes, and made them an example of what is going to happen to the ungodly;
7. and if he rescued Lot, a righteous man, who was distressed by the filthy lives of lawless men
8. (for that righteous man, living among them day after day, was tormented in his righteous soul by the lawless deeds he saw and heard)--
9. if this is so, then the Lord knows how to rescue godly men from trials and to hold the unrighteous for the day of judgment, while continuing their punishment.
10. This is especially true of those who follow the corrupt desire of the sinful nature and despise authority. Bold and arrogant, these men are not afraid to slander celestial beings;
11. yet even angels, although they are stronger and more powerful, do not bring slanderous accusations against such beings in the presence of the Lord.
12. But these men blaspheme in matters they do not understand. They are like brute beasts, creatures of instinct, born only to be caught and destroyed, and like beasts they too will perish.
13. They will be paid back with harm for the harm they have done. Their idea of pleasure is to carouse in broad daylight. They are blots and blemishes, reveling in their pleasures while they feast with you.
But there IS hope!!!
1 Corinthians 6:9-11
9. Do you not know that the wicked will not inherit the kingdom of God? Do not be deceived:
Neither the sexually immoral nor idolaters nor adulterers nor male prostitutes nor homosexual offenders
10. nor thieves nor the greedy nor drunkards nor slanderers nor swindlers will inherit the kingdom of God.
11. And that is what some of you were. But you were washed, you were sanctified, you were justified in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ and by the Spirit of our God.
If you could NOT change, you would be in most pitiful shape...
Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other.
--John Adams
We've only been freely killing our unborn for a bit over 40 years.
Give this some more time...
I’m sorry; but I’m afraid they ARE using their brains!
Her wife, Amy Eshleman, a towering white woman with a short pixie cut,
is supportive of Lightfoots political endeavors. They are both heavily invested
in their hometown. Eshleman has spent most of her career working for
the city of Chicago libraries and has created impactful city-wide initiatives,
such as the One Book One Chicago literacy program and the Chicago Librarys
YouMedia lab, a design space for high schoolers to focus on STEAM and technology.
The two have a 10-year-old daughter.
“Oh geez.”
...emphasized with not one but TWO palm slams to the head while exclaiming “is that all she’s got?”
I am waiting for the first NON-CORRUPT mayor (of any big city) /s
Speaking as a millennial, I agree 100%.
The top headline on one news site this morning was something like Chicago elects first black, openly gay, female mayor. Millennials think those details are whats important.
You left out openly Gay....
“She is married to Amy Eshelman. The couple have one adopted daughter.”
I’m with you, I want to get off this planet too.
Low voter turnout? 30%?! Did people really not turn out? Or has the uniparty decided it’s better to subtract than pad these days...?
That is the REPUBLICANS that are pushing that agenda. Geez. Put the blame where it is due.
Tax cuts
Tax cuts stimulates the economy and increases revenue.
Again you have it all backwards.
Dude, didn't I say that?
And I quote: “The conservative parties (GOP and Tories) have contempt for their voters and love for globalism and the personal rewards it can bring.”
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