Lori Lightfoot wins Chicago mayoral race, to become city´s first black woman mayor
Fox News,
by
Gregg Re
Original Article
Posted By: earlybird,
4/2/2019 11:15:09 PM
Former federal prosecutor Lori Lightfoot was elected Chicago mayor on Tuesday, becoming the first black woman and first openly gay person to lead the nation´s third-largest city. Lightfoot, 56, defeated Toni Preckwinkle, who served in the City Council for 19 years before becoming Cook County Board president. Lightfoot has never been elected to public office; she and her wife have one daughter. (Snip) Lightfoot promised to rid City Hall of corruption and help low-income and working-class people she said had been "left behind and ignored" by Chicago´s political ruling class.
Reply 1 - Posted by:
janjan 4/2/2019 11:20:41 PM (No. 21544)
Guaranteeing that Chicago will not change.
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
peebster 4/2/2019 11:25:45 PM (No. 21532)
There is a chance things will change, most likely for the worse. Good luck with that graduated tax thing. Michigan isn’t a big move for those evil rich folks.
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
mc squared 4/2/2019 11:38:42 PM (No. 21530)
Black, female and gay. Can´t top a threefer.
Chicago is officially toast.
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
subal 4/2/2019 11:39:21 PM (No. 21522)
Baltimore west!
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
Vaquero45 4/2/2019 11:55:03 PM (No. 21534)
Chicago is finished. Now, it will drag the entire state of Illinois into the sewer with it.
Buh-bye, you idiots.
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
Kate318 4/2/2019 11:58:02 PM (No. 21531)
Spare me. On so many fronts.
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Reply 7 - Posted by:
DVC 4/3/2019 12:00:11 AM (No. 21517)
Chicago deserves what they get....however, wasn´t the other one the puppetmaster for that idiot Foxx woman?
Might this screw up the cancellation of the felony charges against Smollet? Gee, I hope so.
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Reply 8 - Posted by:
Illinois Mom 4/3/2019 12:06:52 AM (No. 21515)
Either candidate guaranteed the demise of this once beautiful city.
Only thirty percent of registered voters even bothered to vote. Given the choices for mayor I probably wouldn´t have bothered either.
I´m just so glad that for all who think "firsts" are so important that they can check off "Black Woman."
Chicago has already elected a woman, Jane Byrne, a Black man, Harold Washington and, since he dropped dead wearing women´s lingerie and never married, they has most likely elected a Gay mayor as well.
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Reply 9 - Posted by:
Urgent Fury 4/3/2019 12:07:24 AM (No. 21539)
There´s an Edmund Fitzgerald sinking of the city joke in there somewhere but I´m too tired.
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Reply 10 - Posted by:
jntsrgn 4/3/2019 12:23:55 AM (No. 21514)
A progressive State income tax is prohibited by the State Constitution just like pension reform. Good luck with any of it.
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Reply 11 - Posted by:
droopydog 4/3/2019 12:24:17 AM (No. 21523)
They will soon look back upon the Rahm Emmanuel era with fondness.
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Lori Lightintheloafers will get things fixed! NOT!
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Reply 13 - Posted by:
Nevadadad46 4/3/2019 12:32:36 AM (No. 21540)
This ought to end in total freaking disaster.
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Reply 14 - Posted by:
msjena 4/3/2019 12:33:41 AM (No. 21513)
Unfortunately, the brain-dead voters of Illinois are likely to vote for to change the state constitution to allow the graduated tax. It won’t make much of a dent in Chicago’s fiscal woes. Good luck to Ms Lightfoot. She’s going to need it.
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Reply 15 - Posted by:
AltaD 4/3/2019 12:38:50 AM (No. 21536)
40 years ago Chicago elected the city´s first female mayor and she was replaced by the city´s first black mayor. So it´s no big deal that Chicago now has a black woman as mayor.
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Reply 16 - Posted by:
chiller 4/3/2019 1:22:16 AM (No. 21521)
There is not enough popcorn in the world for this upcoming show between the new mayor and speaker Madigan, who´s run the city and state for decades.
mo butta
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One by one every city in the country will look like Baltimore and other liberal cities run by Democrats. Everybody looking for free stuff but somebody has to to make the doughnuts-like whitey.
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Poor MLK is spinning in his grave, he wanted us to be color blind instead all the democrats want us to do is judge by color, or sex or whatever the criteria du jour is. Character is the last thing on the list, and Chicago is probably the best example of what happens to your city when all that matters is checking the correct boxes on your identity card. Cook county has always been corrupt even way back when, but now, looking back, you have to say that Al Capone was probably the most honest man to come out of that city. He at least gave you something for your money.
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Reply 19 - Posted by:
Pepper Tree 4/3/2019 1:48:10 AM (No. 21525)
Hurrah! Honest government in Chicago at last. Now that a black lesbian has been elected mayor of the crookedest city in the country there will finally be open and bigotry-fee government in Chicago. All the weekend shootings will stop and the patronage system of politics and government administration will be cleaned up for good.
sarcasm off.
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Reply 20 - Posted by:
anniebc 4/3/2019 2:21:25 AM (No. 21524)
"she and her wife have one daughter"
You know she´s jacked up. She pretends to have a wife, and she pretends that they had a daughter together. One of them, maybe, had a daughter. The other is just a poseur. They are not married because there is no such thing. Two people of the same sex can cohabit, but they are not and cannot really be married. Fake as all get out.
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Reply 21 - Posted by:
PChristopher 4/3/2019 2:40:32 AM (No. 21537)
I see the latest cancer cell has formed to continue the destruction of the body....and that´s just what they are, a cancer; they ultimately destroy everything they touch, milking it dry
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Reply 22 - Posted by:
SALady 4/3/2019 2:48:17 AM (No. 21527)
Chicago´s first affirmative action mayor will probably be as effective (and destructive) for Chicago as Ovomit was as America´s first affirmative action president!!!!
Basically, lots of corruption and cronyism, increased crime and violence and drugs, and just a disaster of Biblical proportions!!!!!
And she will then promptly be re-elected, because that is what brain dead Demon-Rats always tend to do!!!
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Reply 23 - Posted by:
Ketchuplover 4/3/2019 2:54:20 AM (No. 21520)
Chicago needs a heavy hand, not a Light Foot.
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Reply 24 - Posted by:
web 4/3/2019 3:04:47 AM (No. 21528)
First Black and openly gay mayor of Chicago. I´m sure that will fix all their problems.
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Reply 25 - Posted by:
KanCreeper 4/3/2019 3:12:11 AM (No. 21533)
And whoever thought that the "Circus was Dead"? It has simply moved to the Chicago area; and been renamed ´Granola Land Midwest´.
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Reply 26 - Posted by:
Roark 4/3/2019 3:15:00 AM (No. 21518)
Chicago had the choice between a black woman and a black woman. Who did you think they´d vote for? Prickweasle was in the Clinton orbit, so maybe Chicago chose wisely. But then again, the Light Foot might just take the long way to the bottom. However they get there, they don´t have far to go.
Far more entertaining will be how the Juicy Smell-it saga plays out. Chicago is done. They need another cow.
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Reply 27 - Posted by:
franq 4/3/2019 7:10:50 AM (No. 21512)
Her first legislation should be to rename the city Sodom.
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Reply 28 - Posted by:
Safari Man 4/3/2019 7:22:39 AM (No. 21541)
Rid corruption? If history is any guide, it’s just getting started and is going through the roof.
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Reply 29 - Posted by:
Trigger2 4/3/2019 7:37:28 AM (No. 21529)
Guaranteeing steps toward the final destruction of Chicago. I think a wall should be built around it to keep the commies in.
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Reply 30 - Posted by:
F15 Gork 4/3/2019 9:50:30 AM (No. 21510)
Chicago, a toddling town - toddling on the brink of Armageddon......
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Reply 31 - Posted by:
columba 4/3/2019 12:23:28 PM (No. 21535)
"She and her wife" ???
C´mon!
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Reply 32 - Posted by:
Smart11344 4/3/2019 2:30:11 PM (No. 21526)
Chicago, the sewage treatment plant for Lake Michigan.
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Elected by racists solely on the basis of her race.
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Reply 34 - Posted by:
udanja99 4/3/2019 3:41:25 PM (No. 21511)
Chicongo has been committing slow suicide for decades. This election is the equivalent of shooting up a massive dose of Fentanyl.
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