How bad is she? So bad she’s become the first incumbent Chicago Mayor in 40 years to be ousted.
Paul Vallas and Brandon Johnson will meet in a runoff to be the next mayor of Chicago after voters on Tuesday denied incumbent Lori Lightfoot a second term, issuing a rebuke to a leader who made history as head of the nation’s third-largest city.
Vallas, a former schools CEO backed by the police union, and Johnson, a Cook County commissioner endorsed by the Chicago Teachers Union, advanced to the April 4 runoff after none of the nine candidates was able to secure over 50% of the vote to win outright.
Lightfoot, the first Black woman and first openly gay person to lead the city, won her first term in 2019 after promising to end decades of corruption and backroom dealing at City Hall. But opponents blamed Lightfoot for an increase in crime and criticized her as being a divisive, overly contentious leader.
Good riddance.
Vallas is seen as the conservative, at least by the standards of Chicago politics (he’s still a Democrat). Johnson is the more progressive one, although presumably an upgrade on Lightfoot.
Both solidly part of the democrat milieu.
Trading one big lib for another. Nothing will change in that sewer of a city.
Just remember voters. You asked for this.
Lightfoot must have pissed off someone in the “machine”. Now they seem to be looking for someone who will play along with Pritzger’s state machine. That may be difficult since Chicago is loosing the population and businesses that funded the city’s grift machine. Chicago served its purpose and now is being allowed to collapse. This does not bode well for Illinois, which will eventually have to foot the bill. Truth is, nobody needs the cities any longer.
Beetlejuice is history. Good riddance indeed.
Nobody destroys cities better than the Left.
mhb23re
Just look at Ca, WA, & Oregon.
Beetlejuice is gone. FILTHY LIBERALS elected her. Chicago got what they deserved. It is a SHithole town, like every other Democrat- Communist run city. If it wasn’t so cold there, it would have shit all over like San Fran.
Will Biden dump Kamala as running mate now that Lightfoot is available?
Biden must be salivating. A black, lesbian, with a First Nation sounding name. A real vote winner!
Plus… PLUS! She’s dumber than Kamala, if anyone ever thought that was possible, joe.
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Okay, okay. That was a gratuitous shot with no evidence whatsoever. Let’s settle it with a round of Politico Price Is Right where all the items come from the Dollar Store. (Now $1.25. Thanks, pResident Biden.)
“What’s your bid for the bar of soap, the bag of chips, and the sprig of artificial flowers?”
Kamalalala: $5.95?
Beetlejuice: [hmmm… I think she overbid] $5.94!
BZZZZZZZT!!!
“You’ve both over bid. It’s $3.75. You’re both going home… and we’ll never know who is dumber.”
[sad trombone]
Dumber than Kamala? Hardly possible.
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Beetle will lose her CPD protection detail pdq.
It will vacant Chitown very quickly afterwards.
Probably to Cali or Portland.
The good news for Lightweight is that she won’t have to stick around and clean up the mess she made. She won’t have to wallow in her mess any more. Just go away and collect a big fat public pension
The bad part Kenji. The next mayor will not fix zip.