In bid to flex more political power, Chicago police union donates nearly $60K to State’s Attorney Kim Foxx’s Republican challenger Pat O’Brien

The Chicago Tribune ^ | August 20, 2020 | Alice Yin

[PBRCat]

Chicago police’s largest union donated $57,800 to Kim Foxx’s challenger in the Cook County state’s attorney’s race.

In addition, the former judge looking to unseat the Democratic incumbent this November received $5,000 from the Chicago Police Sergeants Association Fund.

“Kim Foxx doesn’t have the experience or judgment to run an office in regular times, and in times where there are events which obviously would test anyone, she certainly has failed that test,” O’Brien said. “There certainly is more of a feeling that I’m getting from business leaders and from individuals that they are sick and tired of favoring the criminal at the expense of the victim, and that they’re ready and willing and able to elect a Republican for state’s attorney.”

FOP President John Catanzara said “Pat O’Brien is gonna make a phenomenal state’s attorney,” Catanzara said. “If I had a law license, I’d be a better candidate than Kim Foxx. She’s that bad.”

Foxx has been panned by critics for this year’s surge in gun violence and summer lootings, as well as for a special prosecutor report that found “abuses of discretion” in the Jussie Smollett case.

O’Brien wasted no time in slamming Foxx after special prosecutor released his report stating her office misled the public on the Smollett deal. He also is pushing a narrative that Foxx is “soft-on-crime,” echoing criticism from Chicago police’s upper brass that her office does not prosecute offenders enough.

O’Brien said Foxx in fact “should be worried about the growing movement of people that don’t take to the streets or are fed up with a city that has to raise its drawbridges in order to protect itself, because the state’s attorney won’t.”

Foxx has rejected the characterization that she’s to blame for any increase in crime, especially following this summer’s lootings.

[PBRCat]

Foxx has denounced the Chicago Police as supremacists.

[BipolarBob]

Vote Kim Foxx for State Attorney

This ad paid for by the Looters and Thugs Association

[lgjhn23]

These rabid black, Soros-bought females are the absolute worst of the worst.
NONE of em are worth a shite, and ALL of em are post turtles.

[Regulator]

Man Bites Dog

Chicago police union on side of Repugs

The world is officially upside down

But of course, the real question is....what took them so long? They’ve been voting for the Daley machine garbage for decades and if they think Lori Lighthead isn’t a product of that, they’re smokin’ the crap they be taking off the streets

[gov_bean_ counter]

Passed the bar. Has a bar named after him. A twofer.

[JerryBlackwell]

Is this a once a century political realignment?

[SunkenCiv]

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