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2023-04-06 Home Front: Politix
Chicago Elects Mayor Even More Radical Than Lightfoot as Her Replacement
[TRENDINGPOLITICSNEWS] Just when you thought it couldn’t get any worse for the Windy City, there is yet another election that will have residents blowing out for greener pastures.

Brandon Johnson, a radical socialist candidate, defeated moderate Democrat Paul Vallas in the race to replace reliably Democrat Chicago, aka The Windy City or Mobtown
...home of Al Capone, the Chicago Black Sox, a succession of Daleys, Barak Obama, and Rahm Emmanuel...
mayor/Beetlejuice-lookalike Lori Lightfoot
...the diminutive and vacuous former Heronner da Mare of Chicago. When the corpse count rose she blamed the guns, which are banned anyway...
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As noted by journalist Andy Ngo, Johnson had called for "removing law enforcement from society. During the 2020 riots, he defended looters, saying they were lashing out against racism."

"Chicago’s violent mostly peaceful crime has surged over the last few years under Lori Lightfoot," he added.

Indeed it had. Violent crime had risen steadily throughout Lightfoot’s tenure. Gun violence went kaboom! in 2021, with some neighborhoods seeing over a 100% increase in fatal shootings.

The crime wave had played a major role in Lightfoot becoming the first Chicago mayor in four decades to lose a re-election bid.

But it looks like Chicago will be electing a candidate who is even more radical than Lightfoot to replace her.

Brandon Johnson has lied about his positions on the failed Democratic Party police known as "defund the police."

Johnson had claimed, "I never said, defund the police." But he avoided explaining his 2020 comment when he was shown on video during a debate saying that defunding police is not "a slogan, it’s an actual real political goal."

The incoming mayor also believes in structural racism and seeks "equity" through $800 million more in local taxes to benefit black and Latino communities and reduce crime.

No wonder Johnson was even endorsed by democratic socialist Senator Bernie Sanders
...The only first openly Socialist member of the U.S. Senate. Sanders was Representative-for-Life from Vermont until moving to the Senate for the rest of his life in 2006, assuming the seat vacated by Jim Jeffords. He ran for the 2016 nomination for president, to be cheated out of it by Hillary Clinton, then went back to being an Independent socialist, waiting for 2020 to roll around...
. But it doesn’t stop there. The radical communist "Squad" loves him, as well.
Posted by Fred 2023-04-06 00:00|| || Front Page|| [11127 views ]  Top

#1 Chicago paper is stunned new mayor honored God but not Obama
Posted by Skidmark 2023-04-06 08:18||   2023-04-06 08:18|| Front Page Top

#2 Chicago Elects Mayor...

An inadvertently truthy headline. Not Chicago voters but Chicago itself.
Posted by SteveS 2023-04-06 08:48||   2023-04-06 08:48|| Front Page Top

#3 Report: Border Crossers Found Living Inside Downtown Chicago Police Station
Posted by Skidmark 2023-04-06 09:09||   2023-04-06 09:09|| Front Page Top

#4 Can the entire city be donated to Goodwill as a tax write-off?
Posted by Super Hose 2023-04-06 11:00||   2023-04-06 11:00|| Front Page Top

#5 Good and hard, Chicago, good and hard.
Posted by Nero 2023-04-06 11:32||   2023-04-06 11:32|| Front Page Top

#6 Voters concerned and upset about crime elected someone who will give them more crime.

Makes sense in Chicago, I guess.
Posted by Tom 2023-04-06 11:47||   2023-04-06 11:47|| Front Page Top

#7 [Bee] Sick Of Same Old Crime And Violence, Chicago Tries Electing A Democrat This Time
Posted by Frank G 2023-04-06 11:51||   2023-04-06 11:51|| Front Page Top

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