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Dem Chicago Alderman: Mayor’s ‘Grandstanding’ and ‘Pettiness’ Costing Lives
Breitbart ^ | 07/22/2020 | Ian Hanchett

Posted on 07/23/2020 5:55:40 AM PDT by ChicagoConservative27

During an interview aired on Wednesday’s broadcast of the Fox News Channel’s “The Story,” Chicago Alderman Raymond Lopez (D) sharply criticized Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot (D) by stating that her “level of pettiness is causing disaster” and criticizing her public feud with President Trump by stating that the dispute reminds him “of how many lives were lost because of the politics of grandstanding in the city of Chicago.”

Lopez said, “It’s unfortunate. Because the mayor has been going back and forth with the president, who, to be perfectly honest, I don’t agree on many of his policies, but protecting our citizens should not be a partisan issue. … And for her to go for weeks on end tweeting back and forth and making all kinds of comments, and then finally admitting yesterday, that she’s open to having the FBI, DEA, and ATF come in. Those comments that she made, remind me of how many lives were lost because of the politics of grandstanding in the city of Chicago.”

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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Crime/Corruption; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: banglist; chicago; civilunrest; illinois; lightfoot; lives
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1 posted on 07/23/2020 5:55:40 AM PDT by ChicagoConservative27
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To: ChicagoConservative27

I love the video clip of him telling Lightbitch, “well f you then.”


2 posted on 07/23/2020 5:56:14 AM PDT by ChicagoConservative27
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To: ChicagoConservative27

No one in the administration there, could pass a ‘Civics 101’ exam.

They are clueless. That ship is adrift.


3 posted on 07/23/2020 5:57:41 AM PDT by SMARTY (Freedom from effort in the present means effort has been stored up, in the past. T Roosevelt)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Hey Raymond.....better take COVER because the mean ass, supremely STUPID, Lesbian B*tch will be coming after you!


4 posted on 07/23/2020 5:59:08 AM PDT by Ann Archy (Abortion....... The HUMAN Sacrifice to the god of Convenience.)
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To: ChicagoConservative27
to be perfectly honest, I don’t agree on many of his policies, but protecting our citizens should not be a partisan issue.

What, a sane and rational functioning adult in the room?


5 posted on 07/23/2020 6:01:24 AM PDT by Buckeye McFrog (Patrick Henry would have been an anti-vaxxer)
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To: Buckeye McFrog

The problem is that some of the things he disagrees with Trump about likely led up to what is happening there.


6 posted on 07/23/2020 6:03:24 AM PDT by dp0622 (Trump!!)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Hmmmmm... a Latino who hasn’t been fully introduced to life on the plantation. Hey Raymond, INCOMING!


7 posted on 07/23/2020 6:03:28 AM PDT by brownsfan (Behold, the power of government cheese.)
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To: Buckeye McFrog

I suppose even some on the left are waking up to what’s happening.

Let’s pray it continues.


8 posted on 07/23/2020 6:22:00 AM PDT by metmom ( ...fixing our eyes on Jesus, the Author and Perfecter of our faith...)
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I think this also indicates the advancing rift in this country that BLM has opened between Blacks and Hispanics.

BLM does not believe that all lives matter. Hence they are telling Hispanics your lives don’t matter. Not many people out there will react well to that message.


9 posted on 07/23/2020 6:25:16 AM PDT by Buckeye McFrog (Patrick Henry would have been an anti-vaxxer)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Lightfoot would rather blame Trump and let the killings go on in her city:

Chicago:

Year to Date

Shot & Killed: 385
Shot & Wounded: 1773
Total Shot: 2158
Total Homicides: 428

Hope Chicago empties of its tax base and businesses and Trump tells Lightfoot NO when she comes begging for Federal funds


10 posted on 07/23/2020 6:27:09 AM PDT by Bon of Babble (In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida, Baby!)
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To: Buckeye McFrog

My understanding is that there’s plenty of animosity to go around between the blacks and Hispanics already.

This cannot be helping in the least.


11 posted on 07/23/2020 6:30:28 AM PDT by metmom ( ...fixing our eyes on Jesus, the Author and Perfecter of our faith...)
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To: metmom
Let’s pray it continues.

Maybe some are getting un woke. 😁

12 posted on 07/23/2020 6:33:06 AM PDT by Mark17 (Father of a US Air Force commissioned officer, and trained Air Force combat pilot. USAF RULES)
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To: metmom
My understanding is that there’s plenty of animosity to go around between the blacks and Hispanics already. This cannot be helping in the least.

Correct, which is why Trump is pursuing his DACA/GOYA strategy.

13 posted on 07/23/2020 6:37:25 AM PDT by Buckeye McFrog (Patrick Henry would have been an anti-vaxxer)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Black dykes do not serve real Americans. She is a black dyke and not really an American and is beholden only to her dual constiruancies


14 posted on 07/23/2020 6:41:22 AM PDT by bert ( (KE. NP. N.C. +12) Progressives are existential American enemies)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

this is interesting from secondcity

Classless....Again
Small town bush league politico:
Mayor Lori Lightfoot on Wednesday defended sending several insulting text messages to Chicago Fraternal Order of Police President John Catanzara, saying she doesn’t “take back one word that I said.”

In a heated text exchange, obtained by WGN, Lightfoot called Catanzara a “cartoon character,” “clown” and “total fraud” after the recently appointed FOP president sent a letter to President Donald Trump on Saturday, pleading for federal help in combating the city’s gun violence.

Lightfoot said she believes her characterization of Catanzara is “100% accurate.” She also accused Catanzara of sending the letters in a “craven political move.”
What Chicago political office does Catanzara hold again? Oh yeah, none.

Then Groot starts with the lies:
“In the middle of everything that’s going on in a craven political move, this man waved his hand to President Trump and invited him to bring federal troops into our city, federal troops into our city, a la Portland,” Lightfoot said during a news conference. “How is that responsible? How does that make sense? What he should be doing is focusing on the things that [are] actually important to his members.”

In the letter, Catanzara didn’t specifically ask for “troops” or mention Portland, but he did call Lightfoot a “complete failure” who is unable to maintain law and order.
Amazingly, the Slum Times points out that Catanzara didn’t say what Groot claims he said - essentially calling her a liar. Which makes us wonder what other forces are at play here, seeing as how most of the Slum Times front page “reporters” have carried Groot’s bullshit for over a year now.


15 posted on 07/23/2020 6:42:54 AM PDT by RummyChick (Stop Apologizing for things you didn't do. Stop Demanding Apologies when refuse to forgive)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Somebody should ask Comey how many black lives could have been saved in the last four years if the FBI had spent their resources in Chicago instead of a fake investigation of Trump.


16 posted on 07/23/2020 6:42:58 AM PDT by alternatives? (Why have an army if there are no borders?)
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To: RummyChick

another one

“Silence of the Pfleger
Fifteen shot under 1,000 feet from Sabina’s front door.

And then the Supernintendo says this:
At a news conference with the mayor Wednesday, Brown said Chicago has 117,000 gang members divided into 55 major gangs and 747 factions with 2,500 “subsets of those factions.”

Any day of the week, any hour of the day, Chicago has “several hundred gang conflicts,” he said, and the cycle repeats: someone is shot and someone else “picks up a gun and retaliates.”
Which is exactly why he got rid of the Gang Unit, right?”


17 posted on 07/23/2020 6:43:47 AM PDT by RummyChick (Stop Apologizing for things you didn't do. Stop Demanding Apologies when refuse to forgive)
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Chicago has 117,000 gang members divided into 55 major gangs and 747 factions with 2,500 “subsets of those factions.” Any day of the week, any hour of the day, Chicago has “several hundred gang conflicts,” he said, and the cycle repeats: someone is shot and someone else “picks up a gun and retaliates.”

These gangs should be declared domestic terrorists and the order be given that they be shot on sight.

Either that, or round them up and put them all in a large secure facility with medieval weapons.

(Ooooh!...Gladiators!)

18 posted on 07/23/2020 7:07:31 AM PDT by ROCKLOBSTER (Celebrate "Republicans Freed the Slaves Month".)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Just like Obama she’s a Total Failure at the Job


19 posted on 07/23/2020 7:17:04 AM PDT by butlerweave
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To: Buckeye McFrog

“What, a sane and rational functioning adult in the room?”

Its temporary. Hes a democrat.


20 posted on 07/23/2020 7:35:17 AM PDT by lowbridge
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