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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That would be bigoted, anti-homosexual hate speech.
Chicago is controlled by drug lords. Do you really think they let the gangs shoot it out in the streets for any other reason?
My spin is:
Meet The New Boss, Worse Than The Old Boss (if you can believe it!)
Chicago's decline will really accelerate now. Is this a female version of David Dinkins?
Chicago's elite, you got what you voted for - now get ready for tax and spend, worse government, moar graft, moar crime, you name it.
May God have mercy on her immortal soul.
She is walking into hell, a den of malicious inequity.
Yep, either way would have been an awful marxist dictator. Chicago was screwed in the runoff. Actually, they were screwed in the first round as well, hence the dismal turnout in THAT election.
I voted in the Crook County suburbs today for our local offices. Turnout was also dead here. Of course every race on the ballot was uncontested so people just can’t get excited about re-electing an incumbent with no opponents.
What does she think of Juicy Fruit’s fake hate crime and getting away free as a bird?
Her city. Her problem. She owns this mess.
Houston’s lesbian mayor was a homofascist and crony corrupt AF.
But I'm sure she'll give it the old Stalinist try.
Because Chicago was tired of Baltimore, St Louis, Detroit and New Orleans winning the per capita murder race. In 2 years they shackling of Chicago law enforcement will see murders top 1000.
I left the day Mayor WAshington was inaugurated 1983.
Chicago is such that the people there are almost lucky that anyone wants the job. Then again, is Rahm any the worse for wear?
Thunderbolt and Lori Lightfoot.
[You wanna make history, Chicago? Try electing a Mayor that wont be a total disaster like your previous mayors.]
Didn’t think Donna Brazile could look more unattractive but, why the alias?
Hey, it’s TRENDY. Anyhow, stand back a healthy distance while God lets the devil drive them bats in their self contradiction.
That seems to be true in most places now. Productive people want nothing to do with running for office, so they leave it to those like these people who actually want the job. That's the number one thing that is killing this country. White Flight from Government!
I fear they’ll invite almost anything in there except Christianity. Christianity will get the round boos.
A government that invites corruption then threatens to “gotcha” anyone who dares step out of line.
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