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Lori Lightfoot slammed for suggesting voters oppose her because she's a Black woman in power: Her 'time is up'
Fox News ^ | Taylor Penley

Posted on 02/27/2023 1:16:28 PM PST by thegagline

Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot was put on blast by critics for blaming her dwindling re-election prospects on race and gender instead of the city's crime crisis.

"I'm a Black woman and, let's not forget, some folks frankly don't support us in leadership roles," Lightfoot told The New Yorker recently.

"I think Lori's time is up," local radio host Ray Stevens responded Monday on "Fox & Friends First."

"Personally, I don't [think she can pull off this race], but I've been wrong before as the polls have in the past," he said earlier in the segment.

Stevens told co-anchors Todd Piro and Ashley Strohmier that, instead of fixating on skin color, the race will boil down to key issues – most importantly, crime.

"Chicago has a rampant crime problem, and not only is it in Chicago, but its has reached the collar counties… crime, crime crime is going to be the issue in this election and, personally, what I'm hearing from my constituents, from listeners, is that it will come down to [Paul] Vallas [or] Brandon Johnson."

In the latest polls, Lightfoot trails Vallas by 19 points and Johnson by two. Jesus Chuy Garcia is also locked in a tight race with Lightfoot.

(Excerpt) Read more at foxnews.com ...


TOPICS: News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; US: Illinois
KEYWORDS: brandonjohnson; chicago; democrats; illinois; jesuschuygarcia; lorilightfoot; paulvallas; race; thegagseveryone
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Absent voter fraud, Vallas should win.
1 posted on 02/27/2023 1:16:28 PM PST by thegagline
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To: thegagline

Absent voter fraud...................IN CHICAGO?!?!?!?!?!?.....................


2 posted on 02/27/2023 1:21:05 PM PST by Red Badger (Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegal aliens are put up in hotels.....................)
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To: thegagline

Dominion has her back.


3 posted on 02/27/2023 1:24:24 PM PST by E. Pluribus Unum (The worst thing about censorship is ████ █ ██████ ███████ ███ ██████ ██ ████████. FJB.)
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To: thegagline

Nothing “light” about Lightfoot heh.


4 posted on 02/27/2023 1:26:14 PM PST by Bulwyf (Why? )
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To: Red Badger

To paraphrase a great statesman:

If you don’t vote for me you ain’t lesbian and you sho nuff ain’t black.👉🏿👭🏿


5 posted on 02/27/2023 1:27:31 PM PST by frank ballenger (You have summoned up a thundercloud. You're gonna hear from me. Anthem by Leonard Cohen)
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To: thegagline

Chicago has rigged EVERY election since the days of Al Capone.


6 posted on 02/27/2023 1:28:15 PM PST by BrexitBen
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To: thegagline

Lori Lightfoot
Maxine Waters
Sheila Jackson Lee
Ilhan Omar
Etc
Etc
Etc


7 posted on 02/27/2023 1:28:17 PM PST by bk1000 (Banned from Breitbart)
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To: thegagline

I noticed last week that all the vagrants are gone from O’Hare now. She probably put them all up in one of the downtown hotels. On our dime, of course.


8 posted on 02/27/2023 1:28:44 PM PST by SkiKnee
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Lightfoot is slipping. She forgot to add that she’s also an ugly lesbian.
Come on Lori, don’t hold back.


9 posted on 02/27/2023 1:28:47 PM PST by Leaning Right (The steal is real.)
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To: thegagline

I’d run for office but people won’t vote for me as I’m not a woman of color...they get all the breaks.

See I can say stupid crap like her too, maybe I should run for office.


10 posted on 02/27/2023 1:28:56 PM PST by for-q-clinton (Cancel Culture IS fascism...Let's start calling it that!)
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Ummm...didn’t she get elected? I think they oppose her now because she can’t do the job. Apparently being black and lesbian isn’t enough.


11 posted on 02/27/2023 1:29:12 PM PST by gundog (It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were striking thirteen. )
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"I'm a Black woman and, let's not forget, some folks frankly don't support us in leadership roles," Lightfoot told The New Yorker recently.

And they especially don't support you when you are manifestly incompetent and in way over your head. If TPTB in Chicago decide LL should be gone, she is gone.

12 posted on 02/27/2023 1:29:43 PM PST by Rummyfan (In any war between the civilized man and the savage, support the civilized of man.)
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Considering it's Chicago, and they're all Democrats, are all the candidates going to be using voter fraud? This may be the only way to get a fair election- every one cheats!
13 posted on 02/27/2023 1:30:43 PM PST by Repealthe17thAmendment
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Riiight. Fkg dems playing the race card again. Petty..shallow...shameless...lying...disingenuous...

Bastards!
15 posted on 02/27/2023 1:33:30 PM PST by know.your.why (Be not eager to be offended. The narcissism of small differences leads to THE most boring conformity)
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National debt paid in full. Church attendance way up as in the 1950s. Peace between Russia and Ukraine. More and more children respecting their parents and turning off texting and video games and turn to reading and volunteer work.

And a fair, honest election in Chicago, honestly counted and certified.

DREAM sung by the Pied Pipers and cover by Frank Sinatra and others.

Dream
When you’re feelin’ blue
Dream
That’s the thing to do

Just watch the smoke rings rise in the air
You’ll find your share of memories there

So dream
When the day is through
Dream
And they might come true

Things never are as bad as they seem
So dream, dream, dream


16 posted on 02/27/2023 1:34:42 PM PST by frank ballenger (You have summoned up a thundercloud. You're gonna hear from me. Anthem by Leonard Cohen)
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To: thegagline

I’m for Chuy.


17 posted on 02/27/2023 1:42:51 PM PST by desertsolitaire (Nothing Changes if Nothing Changes.)
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To: thegagline

Uh........ add loud mouthed stupid and ugly to that


18 posted on 02/27/2023 1:45:44 PM PST by ronnie raygun
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Beetlejuice! Beetlejuice! Beetlejuice!


19 posted on 02/27/2023 1:53:08 PM PST by dsrtsage ( Complexity is just simple lacking imagination)
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To: thegagline

Nope..He was once given the nod by the Daley machine some time ago.


20 posted on 02/27/2023 1:53:08 PM PST by crz
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