Posted on 05/11/2022 3:44:13 PM PDT by Libloather
What if we’re stuck with Lori Lightfoot?
Not just for another year, but for another term. Would it really be so bad?
Let’s think this through.
Like you, I was hoping one of the usual suspects - Paul Vallas, Mike Quigley - would come charging into the mayor’s race, someone significant we could get excited about. And no, Willie Wilson tossing away fistfuls of cash doesn’t count.
But each potential savior took a long look at our churning municipal disaster, then fled.
Another kick to prostrate Chicago: a city so broken nobody even wants to run it.
Except Lightfoot, though yes, she goes about the task with the determined cringe of a cat owner squeegeeing up a particularly voluminous pool from a hardwood floor.
Can you blame her? Why would anybody want to be mayor of Chicago? It’s an impossible job.
Do you remember a successful, popular mayor? Me neither.
Do those two traits even go together? Effectiveness and popularity seem inverse qualities. Jane Byrne was a hot mess with no idea what she was doing. Yet Chicagoans were fond of her ... why? Personal style. Panache.
That’s what makes a mayor beloved. People embraced Harold Washington whether he got anything done or not. Richard J. Daley was so hated we forget how loved he was by the bungalow belt, who kept pictures of him in their living rooms, like he was the pope. All they ask is that the mayor reflect their own person. Then they can extend the blanket approval they give themselves.
(Excerpt) Read more at chicago.suntimes.com ...
Chicago gets what they deserve.
This is so typical from Democrats.
Well, at least that part of the article is truthful. 🙂
Article to be expected from the Communist Run Chicago Sun-Times. Circulation is almost at zero, but far left wing investors keep pumping money into the rag.
I guess I should care because it’s an American city, but I don’t care. It’s a nasty, corrupt cesspool. Even if I had some extra dough, I’ll never go there even though I’m sure there are better parts of it to be seen. Won’t be going to any of the cesspools...no Seattle. No Portland. No Baltimore. No L.A. I’d rather go to some rinky dink town in the middle of nowhere. Most places you can find an interesting little museum or park to see.
Groooot!
The red star is part of the Chicago flag.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flag_of_Chicago
Steinberg is a moron
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neil_Steinberg
This guy is on drugs.
Well, you at least want a mayor that’s not a mentally retarded crazy person, don’t you?
1917. That was a looooong time ago.
What a pile.
Actually, I remember Mayor Daley. The first one. Met him once. A real scoundrel and also most powerful person I ever met — and I’ve met plenty. When he was mayor, I was a teenager and could walk across the loop from the train station to Michigan Avenue for dental appointments with zero fear of getting mugged.
Today, I’d make it a block, if that.
So yes indeed, Lightfoot sux.
Veto!
(The girl)
Chicago can wallow in their own feces, for all I care. They can enjoy what they continuously vote for—Shitcago.
Today they represent: corruption, race-baiting, Marxism, revenge, envy, dissolution
No an alcoholic wife beater who also tried to purchase an
- ar-15 as part of hit piece , store denied his attempt to purchase and he looked like an idiot
I had connections to King Richard— both of them. Each ran a tight ship and tolerated zero corruption. They were not interested in money, only in the levers of power. Both had their flaws but were infinitely better than any other in the modern era.
It’s your typical communist rag.
Commit massive election fraud.
City gets worse.
Blame republicans.
Repeat.
I wish I could have left that shithole sooner than I did.
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