No more City Council oversight of the mayor's action

Mayor for life, just like that guy in China

THIS IS  TRULY NUTTY. WHY WOULD THE ALDERMEN VOTE TO DO THIS? WHY DON'T THEY JUST RESIGN FROM OFFICE? 

From Second City Copper

Aldermen approved Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot’s coronavirus spending ordinance Friday over the objections of critics who say she’s giving herself too much authority to make big purchases using public money without City Council oversight.

The mayor’s emergency powers ordinance passed the council by a 29-21 vote following contentious debate. Lightfoot had the council meet Friday afternoon to consider the package after opponents used a parliamentary procedure to block it at Wednesday’s meeting.

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  The vote was unusually tight for a signature mayoral initiative. The no votes came from progressive and conservative aldermen from all over the city, with members of the Black and Latino caucuses joining white aldermen in coming out against the plan.
  
  On Wednesday, the mayor had excoriated the five aldermen who stopped the vote as a small group of selfish obstructionists more interested in “preening in front of the press” than working to help their constituents who are in the grips of the COVID-19 pandemic.
  
  But on Friday, Ald. Carlos Ramirez-Rosa, 35th, said Lightfoot’s failure to include provisions in the ordinance guaranteeing equitable distribution of coronavirus funds to protect vulnerable Chicagoans made it unacceptable. “With this mayor, we’ve seen that you have to get it in writing,” Ramirez-Rosa said.

And we all know that members of government willingly return power granted to them all the time. It just happened a few years ago with Lucius Quinctius Cincinnatus.

Groot immediately celebrated by riding along with Cato on the west side Friday night, putting her tacit stamp of approval on the redeployment of officers from taxpaying wards to the ones that contribute nothing but death and misery to Chicago.