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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It’s why right now I’m pretty down on “Democracy”.
No surprise here. Preckwinkle Cook County board President and County Dem chair had a soda tax passed which was dropped and hated by everybody. The Chicago mayoral race used to be a partisan one which was Republican vs Democrat. But changed into being so called non partisan election. During this primary there were 14 candidates running for mayor with Lightfoot and Preckwinkle the top two from a 35% voter turnout. This turnout was a reported 31%.
Democracy can only be as good as the, er, demos (Gk: people).
When America headed up its constitution with We The People, it threw the dice on its future.
There hasn’t been a Republican mayoral candidate in Chicago for the last 25 years at least.
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What does the race or gender have to do with being mayor of Chicago?Nothing that I can see.
All so see is another Rat running another defective city in a nation full of Rat run defective cities.
It’s about cities being Lefty playgrounds.
Congratulations, Mayor elect. I wish you luck.
Funny how people who demand tolerance for who they are, are intolerant of who others are.
Identity politics over leadership. That’s the current commie party.
Oh, man, if only she was Muslim ..
Gordon Lightfoot would have been a better choice.
It’s happening all across the cities. They’re not making arrests on the small crimes like prostitution, shoplifting, etc. anymore.
12,00 vote lead. 95 percent in. Waiting on the milwalkee last 5 percent fraud.
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From a criminal demonkkkRAT ballerina faggot to a degenerate dyke, glad I moved outta that IL sh*thole in 1967.
Micounted the 2nd time, now 14000 lead with 96 percent in.
Only thing missing is the New Green Chicago Deal.
Last one out of Chicago - please turn out the lights. Oh wait, they will probably be out already.
Maybe Mollett did his gig for her...
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