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Is Chicago’s New Mayor Lightfoot Really Mayor Heavyfoot?
(Ask The Chicago Police Department And Its Union)
W e are approaching 100 days since Chicago elected its first black female mayor. Oh, and she is also Chicago’s first openly gay mayor as well, making Chicago the largest city in the country with an admittedly gay mayor.
Attorney Lori Elaine Lightfoot’s victory in last April’s general election surprised no one. However, her primary election win two months earlier in a field of fourteen candidates really did shock and awe this city and qualified as a real upset.
She then went on to take the general election by storm, not quite completely obliterating her opponent in an old fashioned, bona fide “landslide.” Lightfoot won every single one of Chicago’s 50 wards and stacked up votes so high and overwhelming as to be embarrassing for both her opponent, a long time black female pol, Cook County Board President Toni Preckwinkle, and Lightfoot herself.
Mid-way through that campaign, when it became apparent that Lightfoot would win, Preckwinkle’s team abruptly stopped airing all TV and radio commercials touting her candidacy. Still, none of Chicago’s political cognoscenti, including yours truly, even came close to predicting the utterly thorough drubbing Lightfoot unceremoniously administered to the highest ranking politician in both…
