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Lori plays the race card!Chicago mayor Lightfoot urges black voters to help her 'keep the seat' from falling to white or Hispanic challengers, despite crime spike - as local business leaders plot to oust her
Chicago mayor Lori Lightfoot is in a tight race with Paul Vallas and Chuy Garcia
Lightfoot made history as first black gay woman to serve as Chicago mayor
But her bid for a second term is in question amid concerns over high crime rates
February 18, 2023
As Lightfoot seeks a second term in the upcoming February 28 election, some business leaders concerned about the continuing crime wave say they don't think she is up to the task.
In rallies on Saturday, Lightfoot told the South and West side residents who don't support her to not bother voting at all. Chicago's South Side is a historically-black area.
'Any vote coming from the South Side for somebody not named Lightfoot is a vote for Chuy Garcia or Paul Vallas,' Lightfoot said. 'If you want them controlling your destiny, then stay home. Then don't vote. But we've got to do better.'
Lightfoot made the remarks naming the only white and Latino challengers in the race, Paul Vallas, a former Chicago public schools chief and past city budget director, and fellow progressive Rep. Jesus 'Chuy' Garcia. She is also facing six black opponents in the race.
Sauce/more: https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11768009/Chicago-mayor-Lori-Lightfoot-urges-black-voters-help-seat.html
And the stars look very different today
Here am I sitting in a tin can far above the world
Planet Earth is blue and there's nothing I can do
What a bish Angus is, and erection interference, proven not speculated based on his demand to silence voters in favor of his competition.
Hilly & Billy struck a special nerve though? Interdasting. Guess who owns Angus..
At Bowdoin, Sen. Angus King Explains His Decision to Back Clinton
November 7, 2016
Casually dressed and perched atop a table in Hubbard Hall, Sen. Angus King (I-Maine) explained to a group of students how he came to his decision to back Hillary Clinton for president.
King said that one experience influenced his thinking the most, and he described it in detail. Last winter, he was invited as a member of a congressional subcommittee focused on nuclear weapons to ride on a jet nicknamed the “Doomsday plane.” The official name for the jet is the National Airborne Operations Center, and its mission is to serve as the communications link between the president and the armed forces, particularly during a nuclear attack. Read King’s recent editorial about his endorsement.
Halfway through the trip, the plane’s crew began to simulate a nuclear attack. “I can’t tell you too much about the details because it is classified, but I can tell you it was a very sobering experience,” King said. “Because what hit me…was what a short decision time the president had—minutes, not hours or days.”
He continued: “And the second thing that hit me was so powerful, it was physical, I almost lost my breath, is that in that situation, where our country is under attack and a decision has to be made that could end civilization, there is only one person. There is no Congress, no checks and balances, no Supreme Court, no counsel of advisors, no poll, no election. There is one person…making the decision about the fate of our civilization. And I thought, ‘I really don’t want Donald Trump in that situation.'”
King said Trump is “too volatile, he sends tweets in the middle of the night, any slight or taunt he has to say something, and his rhetoric is so inflammatory.”
As for Hillary Clinton, King said that while he didn’t know her personally, his impression of her was that “she is pretty cool.” He pointed to her unflappability during the 11-hour congressional hearing on Benghazi as an example of her composure and unflappability.
“The country is divided, and until the country has some sense of unification, I don’t see how it’s going to happen in Washington.”
—Sen. Angus King, Nov. 3, 2016
King then switched gears to discuss the election and campaigns more broadly. He described the race this year as “really disturbing.” He repeated an observation he had heard recently—that Trump and Clinton are running for president of two different countries. “The two countries aren’t talking to each other, and they don’t understand each other and they’re angry with each other,” he said. “We need to find out why, what’s wrong.” He said when the election ends, he’ll travel to northern Maine, where Trump support is strong, to listen to people, their frustrations and disappointments, to understand what government can do better.
He criticized gerrymandering, the practice of redrawing congressional districts for partisan advantage, calling it one of the huge problems in the country today, because it helps to elect candidates who are ideologically extreme. “Right now we have people running to the edge, and we really need people running toward the middle,” he said. He recalled a conversation he had with a Florida representative who said that back at home, his biggest political risk is if, during the primaries, voters get the idea that he is “willing to compromise,” or is known to have met with President Obama. “That’s a dangerous idea,” King said.
When another student asked King for clarification about his standing with Democrats and Republicans, the Independent senator said, “I vote with the Dems most of the time because I agree with them most of the time. When I became an Independent in the early ’90s, the Republican Party was a lot different than it is today. It has moved so far to the right it is harder for me to find areas of agreement. When I run for reelection in two years, people will say, ‘he’s really a Democrat,’ but that’s because the Republicans haven’t given me much to vote for.”
In particular, King was critical of the Republican Party’s refusal this past year to grant President Obama’s Supreme Court nominee Merrick Garland a hearing. “That wasn’t right, particularly with a guy like him,” King commented. “He’s a judge’s judge, a thoughtful nonpartisan, not an ultra-liberal or an ultra-conservative. That was terrible, terrible, a misuse of process and a failure to do the job we were elected to do.”
sauce/more: https://www.bowdoin.edu/news/2016/11/at-bowdoin-sen-angus-king-explains-his-decision-to-back-clinton.html
Kingo is a PedoPisoShitto too? Huh.