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Chicago elects black, gay woman as mayor in landmark vote

[Aljazeera] In a landmark vote, the US city of Chicago has elected its first black female mayor and the first openly gay person to hold the post.

Democrat Lori Lightfoot, a 56-year-old former federal prosecutor making her first run for elected office, won the Midwestern city's mayoral race on Tuesday in a lopsided victory.

She beat Toni Preckwinkle, a career politician who is also black, by a wide margin of 74 to 26 percent with most ballots counted.

"We were up against powerful interests," Lightfoot said in a victory speech, with her wife and young daughter by her side.

"Today, you did more than make history, you created a movement for change," she told a cheering crowd.

Lightfoot will replace outgoing Mayor Rahm Emanuel, once a rising star in the Democratic Party and former President Barack Obama's first White House chief of staff.

Chicago will become the largest US city to have a black woman serve as mayor when Lightfoot is sworn in on May 20.

She will join seven other black women currently serving as mayors in major US cities, including Atlanta and New Orleans, and will be the second woman as well as the third African American to lead Chicago.

Related: Chicago Sun Times.

Posted by Besoeker 2019-04-03 05:21|| || Front Page|| [11139 views ] Top

#1 Finally, Chicago elects a man.

Posted by Besoeker 2019-04-03 05:28|| 2019-04-03 05:28|| Front Page Top

#2 The Liberals in Chicago did what the Liberals in Ga. failed to do here.

Yes.... Stacy Abrams is GAY.

Her wiki-file dances around it, but Google her name and she is the center of every LGBT event in the Southeast.

Posted by Steve Tagh 2019-04-03 06:47|| 2019-04-03 06:47|| Front Page Top

#3 THIS THING is gonna be a GREAT "SHOWMAN"? time will tell?

Posted by ranture 2019-04-03 07:40|| 2019-04-03 07:40|| Front Page Top

#4 Rahm Emanuel will leave her three envelopes marked 'progressively' one, two and three. Will tell her when SHTF to open the first, when SHTF the second time to open number 2, finally when SHTF again to open the final one. The day will come and she'll open the first. It will say "Blame everything on me". When time that gave her runs out, she'll open number 2 which will read "Reorganize". When she gets to the third envelope, she'll read - "Prepare three envelopes".

Posted by Procopius2k 2019-04-03 07:57|| 2019-04-03 07:57|| Front Page Top

#5
It's gonna be great!

Posted by SR-71 2019-04-03 08:18|| 2019-04-03 08:18|| Front Page Top

#6 It will all be "business as usual." Nothing to see here...

Posted by M. Murcek 2019-04-03 08:54|| 2019-04-03 08:54|| Front Page Top

#7 Nothing to see here.... until 2024.

Posted by Besoeker 2019-04-03 09:03|| 2019-04-03 09:03|| Front Page Top

#8 Diversity and social justice is her core platform.

Good luck with that. I predict that it will not decrease the crime in that city, but only add more bodies than usual each year she is in office.

Posted by DarthVader 2019-04-03 10:45|| 2019-04-03 10:45|| Front Page Top

#9 And the idiots just added another layer of stupid, insipid and rigidly Socialist to their Petri dish of misery. This doesn’t end well...

Posted by NoMoreBS 2019-04-03 13:09|| 2019-04-03 13:09|| Front Page Top

#10 "Today, you did more than make history, you created a movement for change"

I did too.
Right after coffee.
It wasn't historic.

Posted by Skidmark 2019-04-03 14:08|| 2019-04-03 14:08|| Front Page Top

#11 Was that a haiku?

Posted by Skidmark 2019-04-03 14:08|| 2019-04-03 14:08|| Front Page Top

#12 Lori Lightfoot: What challenges lie ahead for Chicago's new mayor?

Posted by Skidmark 2019-04-03 14:51|| 2019-04-03 14:51|| Front Page Top

#13 Was that a haiku?

Close enough!

Coulda done without the visual though; then again, like I'm any better...

Posted by Raj 2019-04-03 18:34|| 2019-04-03 18:34|| Front Page Top

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