Lightfoot fights for political survival in Chicago mayor's race

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Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot (D) is bracing for a challenging reelection bid as she vies to remain the city’s top executive against eight other candidates in next month’s election.

Lightfoot, who made history in 2019 as the city’s first Black female and openly gay mayor, has faced a slew of challenges in recent years, including confrontations with local unions, the COVID-19 pandemic and rising concerns over crime.

Now the mayor is staring down efforts from within her own party to take her down, though observers suggest ousting Lightfoot will be no easy feat.

“She currently has two challenges. I would call them crime and combativeness,” said Jason DeSanto, a senior lecturer at the Northwestern Pritzker School of Law and a Democratic debate strategist.

Lightfoot’s time in office has at times been marked by contentious relationships with city and state officials. She’s gone head to head with the Fraternal Order of Police president over COVID-19 vaccines while grappling with two Chicago Teachers Union strikes, the first of which was held just months after her 2019 election. Text messages obtained from the Chicago Tribune through a public records request have also shown a frosty relationship at times with other leaders like Gov. J.B. Pritzker (D) and state Senate President Don Harmon (D).




https://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/3818634-lightfoot-fights-for-political-survival-in-chicago-mayors-race/

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1. She has made a lot of enemies. She is corrupt. I regret voting for her. One glaring example:

CHICAGO (CBS) -- Mayor Lori Lightfoot on Thursday acknowledged it "was clearly a mistake" for her campaign to email Chicago Public School teachers, asking them to encourage their students to volunteer for her campaign in exchange for class credit, but said "there was absolutely no nefarious intent."

The mayor's first public comments on the scandal came amid multiple ethics probes into the emails.

Lightfoot said she was not aware of the effort to email CPS teachers to recruit student volunteers until Wednesday, when WTTW first reported on the emails.

"As soon as I learned about the outreach to the CPS teachers, we put a stop to it. The bottom line here is it was clearly a mistake, and we've made sure that we emphasize that, not only to the staffer involved, but everybody on our campaign, to ensure this kind of conduct doesn't happen again," Lightfoot said at a press conference Thursday afternoon.

https://www.cbsnews.com/chicago/news/lightfoot-campaign-cps-teachers-student-volunteers-investigation/

Luckily there are other great liberal choices for me. I really thought being a former federal prosecutor she would't be corrupt. Silly me. She is in about 4th place in the polls now.