After eight chaotic years in office featuring soaring murder rates, allegations of ethical and professional ineptitude, and the Jussie Smollett debacle, Cook County State’s Attorney Kim Foxx read the writing on the wall and announced that she would not run for reelection. Adding final insult to the injuries she has done to Chicago, the federally funded National Academy of Sciences recently invited Foxx to be the opening speaker at its program exploring worthwhile prosecution strategies across America.
Foxx was/is a complete disaster but would O’Neill have beaten her had Foxx run? Not confident there’d have been enough democrats to vote against Preckwinkle’s darling. How much talent did Foxx run off in that office and can O’Neill rebuild it? Can O’Neill gain the trust of the police? Hope so.
A largely unasked question is becoming glaring: Is Illinois doing all it should to use artificial intelligence to make government cost less and work better? So far, the evidence says no.
Foxx was/is a complete disaster but would O’Neill have beaten her had Foxx run? Not confident there’d have been enough democrats to vote against Preckwinkle’s darling. How much talent did Foxx run off in that office and can O’Neill rebuild it? Can O’Neill gain the trust of the police? Hope so.
Kim Foxx should be disbarred.