Lori Lightfoot loses in political embarrassment

[SoCal Deek]

1 minute ago, ChiGoose said:

Tell me you have no idea what’s going on with the Chicago mayoral election without saying you have no idea what’s going on with the Chicago mayoral election. 

Goose, do you live in Chicago?  Who do you think wins the runoff?  And will it be a positive change?

[Tommy Callahan]

12 minutes ago, ChiGoose said:

Tell me you have no idea what’s going on with the Chicago mayoral election without saying you have no idea what’s going on with the Chicago mayoral election. 

ITs valid. the bail reform/prison reform/soft on crime policies of the last few years are seen as the reason the crime is rising and affecting the well to do folks.

 

Shoot, on Vallas's page the biggest statements are about fighting crime and removing the cuffs from the police.

 

Chuy photo opps with cory bush might have hurt him more than helped him.

 

but for real, its like no on on that ticket have actually worked or ran a business.

 

just failures and life time governement folks.

 

 

Edited March 1, 2023 by Chris farley

[\GoBillsInDallas/]

The biggest problem with Chicago is that it does not have a City Charter, which is the document that spells out the way a City government is supposed to operate:

 

https://www.discoursemagazine.com/politics/2022/10/14/the-importance-of-city-charters/

 

Without a charter, it pretty much allows the mayor to do whatever they want and bypass government committees, lawyers, etc. without oversight.

 

BTW here's the charter for Buffalo:

 

https://ecode360.com/13550986

 

 

[ChiGoose]

42 minutes ago, SoCal Deek said:

Goose, do you live in Chicago?  Who do you think wins the runoff?  And will it be a positive change?

 

Yup! I moved to Chicago a little over a decade ago. I think Johnson will be favored to win but Vallas will have a shot at the upset. Johnson's lead won't be prohibitive and turnout is going to be the major factor.

 

Any change from Lori is a positive change. Beyond that, hard to say. Chicago's biggest problems (gun violence, lack of investment, housing, etc) can't be solved solely by the mayor but instead require help from Springfield as well as states like Wisconsin and Indiana. 

 

Personally, I voted for Kam Buckner because I liked his ideas around fostering entrepreneurship, trade and vocational schools, funding neighborhoods and a post-COVID downtown with mixed use and more public spaces.

 

34 minutes ago, Chris farley said:

ITs valid. the bail reform/prison reform/soft on crime policies of the last few years are seen as the reason the crime is rising and affecting the well to do folks.

 

Shoot, on Vallas's page the biggest statements are about fighting crime and removing the cuffs from the police.

 

Chuy photo opps with cory bush might have hurt him more than helped him.

 

but for real, its like no on on that ticket have actually worked or ran a business.

 

just failures and life time governement folks.

 

 

 

Crime is the top issue in Chicago, but it's not the only issue and it's not why Lori lost. She lost because she alienated everyone. She spent her entire term yelling at everyone and claiming she had the biggest dick in Chicago. Even people who work for her don't like her.

 

If the theory that supporting the police / being tough on crime was the only issue in this race, Brandon Johnson wouldn't have made the runoff.

 

Chuy ran a pathetic and lethargic campaign. Lori was hitting him in the local media and he wasn't responding. I'm not sure he even wanted to win, his campaign was so bad. It had nothing to do with Cori Bush. 

 

Don't form your opinions on a local race from the national media. That goes double for Chicago where most of the national coverage is junk.

Edited March 1, 2023 by ChiGoose

[aristocrat]

3 hours ago, Tiberius said:

I love Chicago! 

 

I LOVE LAMP

[Over 29 years of fanhood]

3 hours ago, JDHillFan said:

So unfair!!

She was so bad at her job she made the people that elected her racists and misogynists??

 

😯 

[leh-nerd skin-erd]

1 hour ago, ChiGoose said:

Tell me you have no idea what’s going on with the Chicago mayoral election without saying you have no idea what’s going on with the Chicago mayoral election. 

I wasn’t telling you anything, RiddlerGoose, I was just commenting on the message sent in the election.  
 

Agree, disagree, it’s largely irrelevant.  Crime seems to have been top of mind for lots of voters, including some I know, but maybe it’s that she liked thin crust pizza.  
 

 

[ChiGoose]

4 minutes ago, leh-nerd skin-erd said:

I wasn’t telling you anything, RiddlerGoose, I was just commenting on the message sent in the election.  
 

Agree, disagree, it’s largely irrelevant.  Crime seems to have been top of mind for lots of voters, including some I know, but maybe it’s that she liked thin crust pizza.  
 

 

The true Chicago style pizza is tavern style and it has a cracker thin crust. It’s cut into squares.
 

It has a cool history, but I’m not a fan. 

Edited March 1, 2023 by ChiGoose

[leh-nerd skin-erd]

5 minutes ago, ChiGoose said:

The true Chicago style pizza is tavern style and it has a cracker thin crust. It’s cut into squares.
 

It has a cool history, but I’m not a fan. 

Well then it’s crime, like, duh.  

[B-Man]

 

 

UNEXPECTEDLY! 

 

‘I’m a Black Woman in America:’ Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot Blames Election Loss on Racism, Sexism.

 

 

Chicago has been a Democrat-monopoly stronghold since 1931. The last time the city’s voters elected a Republican to be their mayor was 1927.

 

Almost a century later, Lightfoot calling her (now thankfully former) constituents sexists and racists is yet another reminder of how out of touch she was.

 

 

https://www.nationalreview.com/news/im-a-black-woman-in-america-chicago-mayor-lori-lightfoot-blames-election-loss-on-racism-sexism/

 

[US Egg]

That Lightfoot lovers are hangin in there to this very minute, defending her charade, is almost comical, if it wasn’t so pathetic and damaging.
 

That it mirrors their obsessive, continued vilifying and broad stroke painting of the scoundrel Trumpites, they hemorrhage about and will do forever, is irrelevant to them.
 

They are incapable of self awareness as much, if not more, than those they seek to destroy.

Edited March 1, 2023 by I am the egg man

[ChiGoose]

17 minutes ago, I am the egg man said:

That Lightfoot lovers are hangin in there to this very minute, defending her charade, is almost comical, if it wasn’t so pathetic.
 

That it mirrors their obsessive, continued vilifying and broad stroke painting of the scoundrel Trumpites, they hemorrhage about and will do forever, is irrelevant to them.
 

They are incapable of self awareness as much, if not more, than those they seek to destroy.

Hard to understand who is still supporting her. What are they saying?

 

I don’t know anyone who voted for her this time around even though most people I know (including myself) voted for her in the runoff in 2019. 

[US Egg]

2 minutes ago, ChiGoose said:

Hard to understand who is still supporting her. What are they saying?

 

I don’t know anyone who voted for her this time around even though most people I know (including myself) voted for her in the runoff in 2019. 

Are you glad she didn’t have another chance at Chicago?

[ChiGoose]

35 minutes ago, I am the egg man said:

Are you glad she didn’t have another chance at Chicago?

 

I mean, yeah. That's why I didn't vote for her. And it seems most of Chicago agreed with me.

[US Egg]

14 minutes ago, ChiGoose said:

I mean, yeah. That's why I didn't vote for her. And it seems most of Chicago agreed with me.

Respect that.

 

Unfortunately, her ilk want to hide behind her social issue crusade as being foremost, rather than consider her City and societal demising ideology.

 

In their view, ruinous influence should only be applicable to her opposers.

Edited March 1, 2023 by I am the egg man

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[Unforgiven]

A little hard to stuff ballots when you only get 17% of votes.

BTW who the hell are the 17% who voted for her?

[Irv]

The problem with Lightfoot was that he didn’t do anything about crime.  In fact, he made it worse.  Add in Demented Biden’s failures and he never had a chance. What a mess.  

[BillStime]

23 hours ago, Precision said:

This is what happens when you vote and promote for race/gender/sexual orientation rather than ability. 

Ability:

 

 

[Tommy Callahan]

AW, someone's got a crush. wants to date MTG or something.

 

them the AOC rulles.

 

 

 

 

[Irv]

This Lightfoot guy kinda looks like an fugly woman.  😳

[All_Pro_Bills]

2 minutes ago, Irv said:

This Lightfoot guy kinda looks like an fugly woman.  😳

Not to be rude but can go out to Halloween parties as Bettlejuice without the need for make up or costume.

[ChiGoose]

This should have a significant impact on the runoff:

 

For those who aren’t familiar, White is the closest thing you can find to a consensus candidate in our polarized environment. 
 

In his last election (2018), he won 68% of the vote in an election where the Dem governor and AG candidates each won 55%. The next closest statewide candidate that election was the Comptroller who won with 60%.

White carried a lot of downstate counties that are equivalent to the upstate and western counties of NY. 

 

He’s recently retired but this is a significant endorsement for Vallas. 
 

Here’s how the state voted for Governor in 2018:

 

And here’s how it voted for Secretary of State (Jesse White’s race):

Edited March 2, 2023 by ChiGoose

[Unforgiven]

8 hours ago, BillStime said:

Ability:

 

 

Nothing keeps me up at night. This is what keeps dumb dumbs up at night. like yourself.

[B-Man]

 

 

 

SHE’S DEMENTED AND DELUSIONAL, WHICH PUTS HER IN THE MAINSTREAM OF HER PARTY: 

 

Even After a Historic Landslide Defeat, Lori Lightfoot Doesn’t Seem to Realize It Was All About the Crime.

 

 

https://www.thetruthaboutguns.com/even-after-a-historic-landslide-defeat-lori-lightfoot-doesnt-seem-to-realize-it-was-about-the-crime/

 

 

 

[ChiGoose]

Wonder how the “it was all about the crime” narrative is going to go if Johnson ends up beating FOP-endorsed Vallas.

 

If only someone had pointed out that it was more complicated than that…

 

 

 

[SCBills]

3 minutes ago, ChiGoose said:

Wonder how the “it was all about the crime” narrative is going to go if Johnson ends up beating FOP-endorsed Vallas.

 

If only someone had pointed out that it was more complicated than that…

 

 

 

Chicago deserves what they vote for.  
 

Vallas was their chance.  Good luck. 

[ChiGoose]

Just now, SCBills said:

Chicago deserves what they vote for.  
 

Vallas was their chance.  Good luck. 

So, Chicago voters are smart because they got rid of Lightfoot because of crime but they are dumb because they didn’t vote in Vallas because of crime?

 

Is that where we are? Everyone was so certain about the facts on the ground here a month ago…

[SCBills]

2 minutes ago, ChiGoose said:

So, Chicago voters are smart because they got rid of Lightfoot because of crime but they are dumb because they didn’t vote in Vallas because of crime?

 

Is that where we are? Everyone was so certain about the facts on the ground here a month ago…

Lightfoot was toxic.

 

Many thought they’d actually vote to, attempt, to have a safe city.  Silly us .. hope it works out. 

[Doc]

3 minutes ago, ChiGoose said:

So, Chicago voters are smart because they got rid of Lightfoot because of crime but they are dumb because they didn’t vote in Vallas because of crime?

 

Is that where we are? Everyone was so certain about the facts on the ground here a month ago…

 

No he's saying Chicago voters are stupid and deserve what they get.

[ChiGoose]

Just now, SCBills said:

Lightfoot was toxic.

 

Many thought they’d actually vote to, attempt, to have a safe city.  Silly us .. hope it works out. 

The national ratio of cops to population is 2.4 officers per 1,000 people, but in Chicago, we have 4.7 officers per 1,000 people.

 

If more cops was the solution to crime, Chicago would be the safest city in the country. 

[SCBills]

1 minute ago, ChiGoose said:

The national ratio of cops to population is 2.4 officers per 1,000 people, but in Chicago, we have 4.7 officers per 1,000 people.

 

If more cops was the solution to crime, Chicago would be the safest city in the country. 

It’s not all about cops, but it is about DA’s and politicians allowing them to effectively do their jobs. 

[JDHillFan]

1 minute ago, ChiGoose said:

The national ratio of cops to population is 2.4 officers per 1,000 people, but in Chicago, we have 4.7 officers per 1,000 people.

 

If more cops was the solution to crime, Chicago would be the safest city in the country. 

Chicago has been under complete control of democrats forever. Is there something in their governance that just doesn’t work? 

[Doc]

2 minutes ago, JDHillFan said:

Chicago has been under complete control of democrats forever. Is there something in their governance that just doesn’t work? 

 

The definition of (really) stupidity...

[ChiGoose]

23 minutes ago, JDHillFan said:

Chicago has been under complete control of democrats forever. Is there something in their governance that just doesn’t work? 

Well, it only ended the machine like a decade ago. Since then, the city’s been going through a lot of changes with different constituencies valuing different things and vying for power. 
 

One of the major problems is that Chicago borders Indiana and is fewer than a three hour drive from Wisconsin. Those states are funneling guns into the city that are being used for crime. There isn’t much a mayor can do to fix that. 

It’s been a national punching bag for gun violence, but actually has a much lower homicide rate than cities like New Orleans and St. Louis. Some years, the homicide rate is within a point or two of Buffalo, but it’s a bigger city so the raw numbers look worse. 

 

Additionally, until recently, the state was run very poorly. In addition to the Chicago Machine, there was a Springfield Machine under Speaker Mike Madigan that was in effect until a couple of years ago. Madigan is now on trial for corruption and bribery. We also kept having governors go to jail. There was a famous clip years ago that you had a higher percentage chance of going to jail if you were the governor of Illinois than if you committed murder. 
 

The previous governor intentionally tried to tank the state’s finances to the point where his own party revolted and secretly negotiated a bipartisan budget behind his back. 
 

Because of all of that, Chicago couldn’t rely on the state for help when it needed it. 
 

Despite that, I think the city is actually doing pretty well despite its challenges. It was actually voted Best big city in the country for the sixth year in a row. The neighborhoods are great, the people are friendly, and the food is incredible. 

 

Take it from someone who lives there, life here isn’t anything like what you see on the national news. It’s actually a great place to live. I’m fairly optimistic about the future. 
 

Come visit some time. You’ll love it!

Edited April 5, 2023 by ChiGoose

[BillsFanNC]

🎯 

 

 

[Irv]

What a mess.  

[Big Blitz]

33 minutes ago, BillsFanNC said:

🎯

 

 

 

I want all the receipts from leftists here saying the Democrats have not moved left.  
 

It is as laughably stupid as their policies on law enforcement, economics, and biology claim otherwise.   
 

 

How you can be a white personal in 2023 and be told by someone that white supremacy is the problem, and not have that be an insult to your intelligence and everything this country has stood for - you’re one of the worst humans on the planet.  
 

Let alone have it be an excuse for why Blacks are murdering blacks every day in majority black Chicago - only 36 percent of the city is white.  
 

 

The policies this moron supports are the result of Black leadership failures.  They just can’t take accountability.  It’s going to still be the White persons fault.  And Trump.   
 

Now the school policies and tests the very liberal and Democrat NEA has supported for decades are white supremacy.  They apparently agree - indicting themselves as racists.  That’s freaking hilarious.   

 

You can btw, support less resources in law enforcement - but you have to preach PERSONAL RESPONSIBILITY in order to raise respectful well behaved intelligent and responsible children.  
 

How’s that working out America home of non existent genders and standards that by design leave our young men of all races and ethnicity feeling toxic and useless - I can’t imagine why.   

Edited April 5, 2023 by Big Blitz

[HamSandwhich]

Insanity personified, we’ll watch Chicago crash and burn more and more everyday, yet the liberals will sit there and wonder why it’s happening and vote another leftist into office. They are insane, get out of the cities. Let them burn, what else can you do? Can’t talk any sense into them.