The Bull Leaves The China Shop
By Mitch Berg
Lori Lightfoot, out as mayor of Chicago, after failing to advance to the runoff, in Yesterdays election:
The top two vote getters – the liberal endorsed by the police union, and the center radical endorsed by the teachers – will face off in the runoff:
Mr. [Paul] Vallas, an adviser to the Fraternal Order of Police during its negotiations with Ms. Lightfoot’s administration, used the crime issue against her on the way to his first-place finish, calling for hundreds of new police officers.
Turns out blue city Democrats can reach a tipping point.
Exactly what that means will be interesting to see, where “interesting“ means in the classic rural Scandinavian sense of the term.
March 1st, 2023 at 6:41 am
For all the folks that idolize Portland, Seattle, San Fran, and Chicago, you got your wish, we are becoming those cities.
March 1st, 2023 at 6:44 am
https://www.chicagobusiness.com/economy/chicago-convention-industry-pandemic-recovery-rival-cities
March 1st, 2023 at 6:48 am
Lightfoot received 73% of the vote in 2019.
Reagan never dreamed of getting 73% of the vote.
March 1st, 2023 at 6:55 am
I’m not really that interested because it’s, well, Chicago, but I’d be interested to know what it was that enabled that frog to be elected. I mean, Chicago is totally corrupt in all sorts of ways but there always seemed to be a sense that the parties to that corruption were able to “work together” to maintain whatever semblance of order was needed to continue that corruption. Until Gollum. How did that happen?
March 1st, 2023 at 6:56 am
In Reagan’s day, votes were counted by hand. Too hard to fake results (remember hanging chads from the Bush v. Gore fiasco)?
Lightfoot was battling two different unions to determine which corrupt gang would steal the election for their candidate. Down to cops v. teachers now. I’m betting on teachers – they have fewer scruples.
March 1st, 2023 at 6:58 am
I think that the way it works in Chicago is whether you win or lose depends on the Daley machine. Lightfoot lost the confidence of the Daley machine.
March 1st, 2023 at 7:02 am
^ That seems pretty solid, AUMMP.
This has some info too in a MSM sort of way that could be worth a skim.
https://chicago.suntimes.com/elections/2023/2/28/23619711/chicago-mayor-lori-lightfoot-vallas-johnson-april-4-runoff
March 1st, 2023 at 7:03 am
Now Lightfoot can return to her old job, which was appearing in the mirrors of people who said “Dead Mary” three times.
March 1st, 2023 at 7:17 am
🎵Chicongo, Chicongo, that toddlin’ town! 🎶
March 1st, 2023 at 7:54 am
Lightfoot supposedly came in with a lot of good will and a huge mandate and just utterly squandered it. You would think a former prosecutor would have been more politically astute. She was frequently tone deaf and then incredibly arrogant when called on it. When you are a sitting incumbent mayor in Chicago with all the powers that incumbency holds and 84% of the voters tell you to go jump in Lake Michigan, you have officially been exited from the main stage and are not coming back.
March 1st, 2023 at 7:59 am
rAT! Forget about Beetlejuice.
You told us you were headed for the FaBULoUs Ski SHaK last weekend…gonna ShRed tEH BiRKiE.
What was your finish time? How did you place?
March 1st, 2023 at 8:04 am
If this post was about Lori Lightfoot, why did you link a video featuring Skeletor?
March 1st, 2023 at 8:10 am
I lived in Chicago for five years before I moved here. It doesn’t matter who runs Chicago. They are all corrupt. It’s a parlor game (for parlor Bolsheviks) to watch for who is in the balcony when the graft rolls by, but the graft never ends.
March 1st, 2023 at 8:52 am
Gollum is dead, long live the next Grifter. If anyone thinks things will change in Chicago, I have two words for you: Vote Harder™
March 1st, 2023 at 9:24 am
To paraphrase Sturgill Simpson, and the infinite regress of Chicago, “It’s grifters all the way down.”
March 1st, 2023 at 9:42 am
Maybe there is some hope for Chiraq after all. But let’s see who wins and if they are actually able to stop crime
March 1st, 2023 at 9:47 am
Now Lightfoot can return to her old job, which was appearing in the mirrors of people who said “Dead Mary” three times.
Wrong AIUMMP, only when Beatlejuice is uttered 3X will she re-apper. Get your cultural references right boomer 😉
March 1st, 2023 at 11:23 am
Not clear whether this is par for the course, or whether this is something new for Chicago. The Chicago I grew up around would tolerate a lot of corruption as long as essential services were provided and the streets got plowed. Even horrendous crime was OK as long as it was restricted to poor areas. Michael Bilandic was ousted for not getting the streets plowed in 1979, and Jane Byrne was ousted because of general incompetence (and finally facing a credible black challenger).
So the question here is what the “Pareto” looks like for Lightfoot. Reading some of the accounts, it looks like the north side and lakefront said “no” to her because crime was coming to their neighborhoods. Not entirely clear whether the far worse crime on the South Side factored much into their calculations. If it did, I think that bodes well for Chicago, because they would finally be saying “no, it is not OK that we’re burying lots of black kids because the city doesn’t do policing well.”
Otherwise, everybody’s pretty much a leftist, but a leftist who wants to arrest criminals and put them in jail is far better than a leftist who doesn’t.
March 1st, 2023 at 5:17 pm
“Jane Byrne was ousted because of general incompetence (and finally facing a credible black challenger).”
I know, and Thank God…they’ve saved the city.
Before 1980 and since the late 1800’s, every single person with the Nzimande surname was related to me. Gramma Nzimande was the clerk for the Cook County board for 30 years.
Now, those Nzimande’s found there are culturally appropriating my heritage…none of the True tribe remain within the borders of that wretched, unwholesome city.