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Chicago mayor rips Cruz for tweet about violence: 'Keep our name out of your mouth'
The Hill ^ | 09/03/19 | Jessica Campisi

Posted on 09/03/2019 5:48:48 AM PDT by yesthatjallen

Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot (D) took aim at GOP Sen. Ted Cruz (Texas) after the lawmaker said a weekend uptick in violence in the city proved that “gun control doesn’t work.”

“60% of illegal firearms recovered in Chicago come from outside IL — mostly from states dominated by coward Republicans like you who refuse to enact commonsense gun legislation,” Lightfoot tweeted late Monday. “Keep our name out of your mouth.”

Cruz Tweet:

Gun control doesn’t work. Look at Chicago. Disarming law-abiding citizens isn’t the answer. Stopping violent criminals—prosecuting & getting them off the street—BEFORE they commit more violent crimes is the most effective way to reduce murder rates. Let’s protect our citizens.

SNIP


TOPICS: News/Current Events; US: Illinois
KEYWORDS: bluezones; chicago; cruz; cultureofcorruption; democratscandals; guncontrol; guns; lorilightfoot; mayor; snitchesgetstiches; thugthevote; urban
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To: pas

https://abc7chicago.com/41-shot-7-fatally-in-chicago-labor-day-weekend-violence/5510911/


21 posted on 09/03/2019 6:08:47 AM PDT by mplc51
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To: yesthatjallen

Chicago, Home of Corruption and Death!


22 posted on 09/03/2019 6:09:39 AM PDT by chris37 (Monday, March 25 2019 is Maga Day!)
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To: yesthatjallen

Sounds like Cruz HIT A NERVE there. Obviously the Dems never want to talk about Chicago, but her reaction implies that they see it as a ‘family secret’, best kept that way.

What’s interesting is that she could have answered Cruz by saying something like: “Yes, we do have problems in Chicago with gang violence and we are continuing to do our best to fight it. However, this does not detract from the mass shootings that seem to be sweeping the country”

Something like the above would imply that they don’t fear the Chicago situation become viral - but apparently, that is exactly what they do fear. They want it ‘kept to themselves’.

Obviously, this is a good area to bring up, again and again.


23 posted on 09/03/2019 6:09:54 AM PDT by BobL (I eat at McDonald's and shop at Walmart - I just don't tell anyone.)
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To: Haiku Guy

“The problem is the person who wants to kill. We are producing people who want to kill in huge numbers. This is the problem we need to address.”

The issues that need to be addressed are the decline of morality, religion, and loss generally held standards for personal behavior. Add to that drug use, gang membership, and celebration of violence in the mass media (television, movies, video games, books). Throw in fatherless households and the absence of inspiring and moral male role models.

Liberals are responsible for most of the above and have no interest in reinstating standards or demanding personal responsibility.


24 posted on 09/03/2019 6:11:13 AM PDT by Soul of the South (The past is gone and cannot be changed. Tomorrow can be a better day if we work on it.)
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To: yesthatjallen

Cruz needs to concentrate on Texas.
Its a big State and plenty to do.
How about visiting the districts which didn’t vote for him in 2016?


25 posted on 09/03/2019 6:12:12 AM PDT by Zathras
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To: House Atreides

“I pity its citizens.”

Don’t...they deserve it.


26 posted on 09/03/2019 6:13:45 AM PDT by Bonemaker (invictus maneo)
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To: yesthatjallen

And keep Texas out of yours... bit@h.


27 posted on 09/03/2019 6:14:10 AM PDT by DesertRhino (Dog is man's best friend, and moslems hate dogs. Add that up. ....)
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To: yesthatjallen

These rat cities, when their rat mayors turn out to be losers, just replace them with another rat. Nothing changes. The real problem is that democrat politicians are no good at running things and are only accomplished at wealth transfers.


28 posted on 09/03/2019 6:14:41 AM PDT by OrioleFan (Republicans beliCNN eve every day is July 4th, Democrats believe every day is April 15th.)
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To: yesthatjallen

Must have hit a nerve. Keep drilling Ted.


29 posted on 09/03/2019 6:15:37 AM PDT by McGruff (If you hate our Country, or if you are not happy here, you can leave!)
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To: yesthatjallen
'Keep our name Chicago: Murder City out of your mouth' We DemocRATS own that city!
30 posted on 09/03/2019 6:16:15 AM PDT by CptnObvious (Question her now.)
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To: yesthatjallen

Rudy Giuliani @RudyGiuliani

8 people murdered in Chicago this weekend, I,600 shot so far this year. This doesn’t have to happen. It’s the result of failed political ideas and pandering rather than caring.

7:41 AM · Sep 3, 2019


31 posted on 09/03/2019 6:17:53 AM PDT by McGruff (If you hate our Country, or if you are not happy here, you can leave!)
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To: yesthatjallen

“60% of illegal firearms recovered in Chicago come from outside IL”


Then why isn’t there the same level of gun crimes in those states?

This is a cultural issue, not a gun issue.


32 posted on 09/03/2019 6:17:57 AM PDT by ConservativeWarrior (Fall down 7 times, stand up 8. - Japanese proverb)
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To: yesthatjallen
“Keep our name out of your mouth”?

This intellectual feat is why Chicago is the way it is.

33 posted on 09/03/2019 6:20:19 AM PDT by Vision (Obama corrupted, sought to weaken and fundamentally change America; he didn't plan on being stopped.)
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To: yesthatjallen

Problem with “getting felons off the street” in Chicago: felons have girlfriends, baby momas, mothers and other relatives — and they vote.


34 posted on 09/03/2019 6:20:34 AM PDT by PapaBear3625 ("Those who can make you believe absurdities, can make you commit atrocities." -- Voltaire)
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To: yesthatjallen

It screws up your narrative about universal gun confiscation in America, right Princess Mayor? LOL! Your town is a dump and you socialists piggies made it that way.


35 posted on 09/03/2019 6:22:31 AM PDT by FlingWingFlyer (You can vote your way into socialism but you have to shoot your way out of it.)
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To: yesthatjallen

Maybe the Mayor should tend to her own backyard and go spend some time in the Chicago hot zones. Of course, that wouldn’t be Rat political.


36 posted on 09/03/2019 6:22:45 AM PDT by Truth29
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To: yesthatjallen

The black-on-black killings in major cities far outnumber mass killings but no one cares.


37 posted on 09/03/2019 6:23:38 AM PDT by Wm F Buckley Republican
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To: yesthatjallen

And how many of those guns which come from outside the state were stolen.


38 posted on 09/03/2019 6:24:08 AM PDT by circlecity
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To: yesthatjallen
“Keep our name out of your mouth.”

Chicago!
Chitcago!
Chitcago!
Shitcago!

39 posted on 09/03/2019 6:24:39 AM PDT by Road Warrior ‘04 (Boycott The NFL! Molon Labe! Oathkeeper)
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To: rlmorel

Very good.


40 posted on 09/03/2019 6:25:42 AM PDT by Eagles6
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