Posted on 03/02/2023 6:58:58 AM PST by SeekAndFind
Back in our early days in the U.S., circa 1964-66, we lived in Wisconsin and traveled to Chicago to visit a Cuban store there. It was a quick drive on I-94 and the sights of Lake Shore Drive and O'Hare Airport were spectacular. My parents always complimented how clean and orderly everything was. I guess that there was something good about Mayor Richard Daley after all.
On Tuesday night, Mayor Lightfoot was rejected by the voters. She came in 3rd place and will start packing her bags for a post-political life. My guess is that she'll end up at MSNBC but maybe I'm just cynical today.
What happened to Mayor Lightfoot? According to the Chicago Sun Times, she did not do a good job:
Bad timing is too simple an explanation for Lightfoot’s stunning political downfall.
It does not explain why violent crime is up 40% since Lightfoot promised during her inaugural address to stop the “epidemic of gun violence that devastates families, shatters communities, holds children hostage to fear in their own homes” and leaves parents wondering “if Chicago is a place where they can continue to live and raise their children.”
It does not explain why Lightfoot has been such a disappointment to the lakefront voters who formed the base of her support in 2019. Lightfoot opposed the elected school board after saying she’d support it; failed to deliver the transparency she had promised; and broke her pledge to raise the real estate transfer tax on high-end home sales to create a dedicated funding source to reduce homelessness.
Bad timing also can’t explain Lightfoot’s inability to get along with people and a relationship with the City Council so contentious at least seven members of her own leadership team abandoned ship, endorsing other mayoral candidates.
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No.
So, So what happens next? I don’t know, but I hope that the next mayor understands that people are leaving the city and public schools because nothing works in Chicago.
short answer.... they will keep doing what they’ve always done... and keep getting what they always got.
Did things change when Adams replaced Deblasio in NY?
So No, nothing will change.
Absolutely nothing of substance will change. Rational, decent people left Chicago long ago. The elected officials will represent the values, habits and culture of the majority who choose to live there.
We won’t have to look at her!
Lori was complaining g about racism in an area that is majority,black- 80% of the people didn’t want her I wonder what % minorities live there? 80%
2 Tim 3:13 But evil men and seducers shall wax worse and worse, deceiving, and being deceived.
And as go the cities, so goes the country.
Actually, Johnson is a complete Leftwing lunatic. So things may change - for the worse.
They’ll probably have a different face walking at the front of their “pride” parades. Beetlejuice is outta there.
Most people don't realize that Chicago is roughly 1/3 white, 1/3 black, and 1/3 Latino. The Latinos despise her, the liberal whites on the Northshore who helped vote her in last time abandoned her over the fact crime is out of control, and the black vote got split among Groot and the 6 other black candidates who ran this time.
And keep making the excuses they always make.
In that her nickname is “Beetlejuice”, and she could have come off an episode of “Tales From The Crypt”, I doubt she’s going to be walking the red carpet anytime soon.
Though some fashion designer may try a fashion show theme of zombies, necromancy, or Invaders from Mars.
Meet the new boss, same as the old boss.
Yep, if Chuy (who is just as much as a leftwing lunatic as Johnson) gets his Latino voters to vote for Johnson and the black voters who voted for Lightfoot and all the other black candidates decide to vote for one of their own, Vallas is in trouble. Johnson would try to completely gut the police and would give the Chicago Teachers Union complete control of the schools.
Exactly. It will depend on who actually becomes mayor. This runoff is extremely interesting because the two candidates are polar opposites (within the normal lunacy that you have to deal with in Chicago).
Lightfoot was elected because she is a black lesbian. Totally unqualified for the job and in over her head from Day One. Bad timing? There would never have been a good time for her.
“Chicago ain’t READY for reform!”
Attributed to Mathias “Paddy” Bauler, the saloonkeeper and sometimes city council member who controlled the 43d Ward from 1933 to 1967.
Not much has changed for the Chicago Machine, just different players step up from to time, the line of succession sometimes going back to before birth.
RE: Lightfoot was elected because she is a black lesbian.
I am beginning to understand why a huge percentage of Gen Zers identify as LGBT. See here:
You need to identify as such to “get ahead” in your career. Competency be damned.
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