Here's why Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot can't ask teachers to help her reelection campaign

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Here’s why Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot can’t ask teachers to help her reelection campaign
Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot backtracked on an email sent by a campaign staffer to public school teachers last week asking them to

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1. It was moronic

Of course if your state has a $7,500 voucher for private school tuition, shouldn't the entities providing that education also refrain from partisan activity?

[frazzled]

2. Frankly, she's pretty much toast anyway

The teachers’ union had much earlier endorsed another candidate before this (I’m not surprised) contretemps about wielding her weight to inveigle free student campaign workers.
But just about every sector in the city is mad at her about something.

I still don’t know who I’ll vote for. I’m not super hyped about anyone. But it won’t be a vote for Lightfoot. I just hope the vote won’t get so split that she’ll end up in the run-off. Right now she’s in fourth place according to latest polls.