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Government Corruption
Lori Lightfoot confronted by reporter who was booted from press briefings: 'Get the hell out of my city'
2023-03-18
[MSN] A 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...
news hound who filed a lawsuit against Democratic Mayor Lori Lightfoot
...the diminutive and vacuous Heronner da Mare of Chicago. When the corpse count rises she blames the guns, which are banned anyway. A racist to the bone, Lori sez that people with the same skin tone all think alike, not quite getting the implications for a city with a population less than thirty percent black...
for allegedly silencing him by pulling his city press credentials fired back at her yet again in a fierce exchange at a Wednesday city council meeting.

"You shut down our schools, you shut down the churches, you shut down the businesses. You did the one thing I thought could never happen: As somebody who was born and raised on the South Side of Chicago, I never thought in my life that I would ever see the city of Chicago brought down so low," news hound William Kelly slammed Lightfoot.

"I hope that, after today's city council meeting, you will pack your suitcase and get the hell out of my city."

Kelly spoke out about the tussle Thursday on "Fox & Friends," telling host Steve Doocy that the tense moment was his chance to speak out on behalf of the citizens of Chicago.

"Even if she didn't pull my press credentials, I still would not have had the opportunity to ask her a question or speak for the people of Chicago after the city council meeting because Mayor Lightfoot canceled her post-city council meeting presser," he said.

"I applied for the public comments section right before the meeting. It's a lottery. It's limited to five people to speak for three minutes, and the luck of the Irish — St. Patrick's Day — I was one of the five."

Posted by:Fred

#2  And the chance that the lifelong Chicago journalist is MAGA approaches zero.
Posted by: Super Hose   2023-03-18 08:50  

#1  'Get the hell out of my city': Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot slammed at raucous council meeting where she was berated by journalist William Kelly just weeks after she lost her bid for re-election
Posted by: Skidmark   2023-03-18 00:14  

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