Lori Lightfoot will be leaving the mayor's office soon enough but I wanted to take this opportunity briefly review her main accomplishments during the past four years.
She led the city during the pandemic. It was a tough time. Not everybody liked all of her decisions. Why would they? But most of the decisions were well reasoned, based on the limited knowledge everyone had and usually benefited most of Chicago. She was able to steer the city finances away from default and struggled to maintain the tax base. She usually had kind words for the non-political types and I always had the feeling that she sincerely cared about the little guy. On the other hand, her personality was that of a bully. When combined with her deep-down racist traits, the scene was not appealing to most.
Lightfoot's two biggest failures was her abandonment of the police department and the deterioration of race relations. A vibrant and responsive police department is critical, otherwise, anarchy will prevail, as we saw. The same with race relations. There is absolutely no reason for everyone to be so suspicious and scared of each other......just because of skin color? If she could have a do over, I'm sure it would be different. Hopefully, Lightfoot's successor will be mindful of her errors and work hard to avoid repeating them.
So good luck Mayor Lightfoot. I expect that you will be in private practice or on the bench soon enough.
She began her term with support from all 50 wards. She got into fights, needlessly and trashed the good will of Chicagoans who wanted her to succeed, so we all would. All this "racist" stuff carping discounts the work every Chicagoan makes, every day to keep our city vibrant and livable. Not a fan of giving the President a big "F.U." in front of a large Grant Park crowd. And giving COPA's phone number to the Antifa rioters at the Columbus statue was the end of it for me. And do we really need to know the size of her appendage, whether it be latex, runs on D cells or whatever?
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