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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“Are the perverts taking over the country?”
No, but they’re taking over the large cities.
another non hetero....
I moved out of Chicago in 1970, and it was one of the best moves I ever made.
Things have gone too far I think.
We are starting to resemble Weimar Germany, where people are losing interest in government, and don’t even want to bother to vote, much less ever run for office.
You know how this movie ends up turning out.
You mean your sole existence isn’t focused on your sexuality?
Two black female leftists, but one of them had extra lesbian diversity points.
And, she’s a lesbian, too?! She’d be perfect human being if she’d now convert to Islam.
If any normal people still live in Chicago you need to get out fast.
A threefer!! Wow intersectionality at its finest. This no doubt makes her more qualified than a mere twofer. Now if she were only a Muslim.
And cede even more territory to the Left? That's the whole problem in the first place. Conservatives turn and run instead of standing their ground and fight. It's just too easy to flee someone else.
But the day is fast approaching where there won't be anywhere to flee to.
Yep. Low turnout and lousy candidateS are not a good mix. There were actually some interesting candidates among the fourteen in the primary. About 10% of the total voters supported the two that went to the runoff.
No you cannot
You think you could never get worse and then......
Bammo!
Can’t vote for someone who doesn’t want the job.
And what rational person, would even want to get involved with that zoo. And therein lies the rub.
She’s going to make even Harold Washington look good.
Well, whoopteedo....who is supposed to care about their mayor’s sex life. If I lived there, I’d be more interested in how she’ll clean up that cesspool.
And low turnout [plus apathy] is how Occasional Cortex got elected in the Bronx.
And it's not as if her opposition was much better. Conservatives don't even bother to get involved in the cities, they know it's not worth their time and trouble. But it's going to have to change. I hoped Trump would have been the spark, maybe it still can be.
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