Beetle Juice Loses

[GURPS]

Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot loses re-election bid as city battles crime epidemic​

Receiving only 16.4% of the vote, Lightfoot, 60, finished behind former head of Chicago Public Schools Paul Vallas and Cook County Commissioner Brandon Johnson in Tuesday’s race.

Vallas, who took 35% of the vote, and Johnson, who obtained 20.2% of the vote, will head to an April 4 runoff election to determine who will be the city’s next mayor.

“I will be rooting and praying for our next mayor,” Lightfoot said in her concession speech.

She called being Chicago’s mayor “the honor of a lifetime.”

 

[Gilligan]

Good riddance....although I don't expect the next one to be any better. Chicagoans obviously have a special place in their hearts for incompetent city leaders.

 

[Kyle]

Good riddance....although I don't expect the next one to be any better. Chicagoans obviously have a special place in their hearts for incompetent/corrupt city leaders.

The Democrat tradition.

 

[GregV814]

Well, when one door opens........ look, she has Mayoral experience, an ability to act sane, used to worshipers.....

Pennsylvania.....

missing at least two senators..... umm.... may be a good resume builder for Harris/Lightfoot '24....

 

[herb749]

Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot loses re-election bid as city battles crime epidemic​

Receiving only 16.4% of the vote, Lightfoot, 60, finished behind former head of Chicago Public Schools Paul Vallas and Cook County Commissioner Brandon Johnson in Tuesday’s race.

Vallas, who took 35% of the vote, and Johnson, who obtained 20.2% of the vote, will head to an April 4 runoff election to determine who will be the city’s next mayor.

“I will be rooting and praying for our next mayor,” Lightfoot said in her concession speech.

She called being Chicago’s mayor “the honor of a lifetime.”

Wow, 16% of the voters think she did a good job .

 

[GURPS]

Lori Lightfoot Blames Re-Election Woes On Racism, Sexism, And TIME Magazine​

“Of course, you can’t have lived through what we lived through and say I did everything perfect. We made mistakes,” she said, pivoting to bring former Mayor Rahm Emanuel’s TIME Magazine spread into the conversation.

“I remember Rahm Emanuel appearing on the cover of Time magazine, the headline was basically like: ‘Tough guy for Chicago.’ No woman or woman of color is ever going to get that headline,” she complained.

Lightfoot, the city’s first black female lesbian mayor, made a similar complaint during another interview with The New Yorker. “I’m a black woman and, let’s not forget, some folks frankly don’t support us in leadership roles,” she said.

She faces a slate of eight challengers in Tuesday’s election — the top two of whom will face each other in a run-off election — and there are some who don’t believe she’ll even make it to the run-off.

“Personally, I don’t [think she can pull off this race], but I’ve been wrong before as the polls have in the past,” local radio host Ray Stevens told “Fox & Friends First.”

 

[vraiblonde]

16% of Chicagoans voted for her. Who are these people???

Not that whoever replaces her will be any better. The second they try to crack down on crime the durhards in that city will be like, "Wah! No! You're so mean!! ACAB!! Mah boah a goot boah! Defund! Defund!!"

 

[Clem72]

Good riddance....although I don't expect the next one to be any better. Chicagoans obviously have a special place in their hearts for incompetent city leaders.

I thought Lori was a success going by the metric that she hasn't been arrested. Yet.

 

[WingsOfGold]

So 16.4% of the vote are still sub human stupid, they deserve what they got.

 

[GURPS]

 

[vraiblonde]

There should be a literacy test to vote. That would knock out 2/3 of the Democrat Party.

 

[Kyle]

There should be a literacy test to vote. That would knock out 2/3 of the Democrat Party.

Add a morality clause and you can get that down to 5%.

 

[Monello]

“I’m a black woman and, let’s not forget, some folks frankly don’t support us in leadership roles,” she said.

The American people don't support incompetent people in leadership roles. Regardless of gender or color or orientation or nation of birth(except for prez).

Run Condi Rice for president. She checks 2 boxes, maybe 3. And she has leadership talent.

 

[vraiblonde]

"Oh, voters are racist and sexist and homophobic!!"

....forgetting completely that SHE IS THE INCUMBENT.

 

[vraiblonde]

The American people don't support incompetent people in leadership roles.

Sure they do - look at Joe Biden and Kamala Harris.

 

[CPUSA]

The American people don't support incompetent people in leadership roles. Regardless of gender or color or orientation or nation of birth(except for prez).

Ohhhhh yes they do....Look at the incompetent fools that got re elected in 2022...

 

[stgislander]

Run Condi Rice for president. She checks 2 boxes, maybe 3. And she has leadership talent.

She's definitely smart enough. I would have to take a hard look at her foreign policy stances again.

Besides, she's said more than once that her dream job would be NFL Commissioner.

 

[RoseRed]

 

[my-thyme]

"Oh, voters are racist and sexist and homophobic!!"

....forgetting completely that SHE IS THE INCUMBENT.

Just saw this. It's incredulous that people are buying this, yet many will back her in this opinion.

 

[Kyle]