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Lori Lightfoot wins Chicago mayoral race, to become city's first black woman mayor
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I am looking forward to the day where a black woman becoming mayor isn't such a big deal. I thought this might have happened already in cities like Chicago and Detroit but apparently it's another ceiling broken..



"Lori Lightfoot overwhelmingly defeated Toni Preckwinkle for mayor of Chicago on Tuesday, winning by nearly a three to one margin. Precinct-level data shows that Preckwinkle only won precincts in Hyde Park, her home base, but everywhere else Lightfoot dominated."

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Re: Lori Lightfoot wins Chicago mayoral race, to become city's first black woman mayor [jkca1] [ In reply to ]
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Don't forget that she's also openly gay - for the trifecta.

She talks a really good game - hope she can shape things up downtown.

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Re: Lori Lightfoot wins Chicago mayoral race, to become city's first black woman mayor [TiDriver] [ In reply to ]
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TiDriver wrote:
Don't forget that she's also openly gay - for the trifecta.

She talks a really good game - hope she can shape things up downtown.

If she kills the corruption there is no need for her massive taxes
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Re: Lori Lightfoot wins Chicago mayoral race, to become city's first black woman mayor [windywave] [ In reply to ]
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Huge "if"
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Re: Lori Lightfoot wins Chicago mayoral race, to become city's first black woman mayor [windywave] [ In reply to ]
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windywave wrote:
TiDriver wrote:
Don't forget that she's also openly gay - for the trifecta.

She talks a really good game - hope she can shape things up downtown.


If she kills the corruption there is no need for her massive taxes


Better chances that she kills corruption than Toni Preckwinkle, who is just part of the big Chicago political machine.

I know. Low bar.
Last edited by: Francois: Apr 3, 19 11:33
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Re: Lori Lightfoot wins Chicago mayoral race, to become city's first black woman mayor [ECE] [ In reply to ]
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ECE wrote:
Huge "if"

Agreed. She tried and got mixed results as the Chairman of the Police Civil Review Board. However, she was an Assistant Federal District Attorney so she knows her way around the law and how to get things done across agencies, so with the position of Mayor behind her, and apparently a good portion of Chicago as well, she may have a chance.

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Re: Lori Lightfoot wins Chicago mayoral race, to become city's first black woman mayor [AutomaticJack] [ In reply to ]
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Agree that she has the momentum and the mandate to do what should have been done decades ago, but the "concession" speech Preckwinkle gave wasn't exactly an olive branch.

If she gets reformers like Waguespack on her side and starts to get the cronies out of the power seats she may have a chance to get some structural reform into the city services groups that are dragging down the city finances. She also can't be the punching bag that Rahm became for the CTU leadership.
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Re: Lori Lightfoot wins Chicago mayoral race, to become city's first black woman mayor [jkca1] [ In reply to ]
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I am looking forward to the day where a black woman becoming mayor isn't such a big deal.

It isn’t.

It’s time to move on.

Her race and gender is totally irrelevant to her qualifications, successes and/or failures.

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Re: Lori Lightfoot wins Chicago mayoral race, to become city's first black woman mayor [jkca1] [ In reply to ]
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jkca1 wrote:
I thought this might have happened already in cities like Chicago and Detroit but apparently it's another ceiling broken..

Detroit has never had a female mayor. Granholm has been Michigan's only female governor.

Coleman Young was Detroit's first black mayor (74-94), then Dennis Archer (94-01), Kwame (01-prison), Dave Bing (09-13).
From 74 to 13, Detroit only elected black men as mayors.
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Re: Lori Lightfoot wins Chicago mayoral race, to become city's first black woman mayor [TiDriver] [ In reply to ]
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If she could read my mind she'd know I think,that it will be 10 degrees or colder in hell before she cleans up Chicago. If she tries it will be sundown on her term that will end up worse than the wreck of the edmund fitzgerald
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Re: Lori Lightfoot wins Chicago mayoral race, to become city's first black woman mayor [jkca1] [ In reply to ]
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Wait Gordon Lightfoot had a black daughter?

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