John Kass: Skyrocketing crime and closed schools. Is this Mayor Lightfoot’s snowpocalypse? – Chicago Tribune*

"A Black alderman who wants to be more supportive of Lightfoot put it this way: 'I really don’t know who’s giving her advice and if she even takes it anymore,' he told me. 'She doesn’t give anybody any cover, not aldermen who want to support her, not teachers who want to be in school. And street crime for this mayor is getting to be like the snow for other mayors.'"
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ConcernedExpat
5 years ago

Sounds like a whistleblower needs to step up and sound the alarm about CTU.

The True Believer
5 years ago

Kass has lost his courage. He won’t call her for what she really is, a total racist incompetent angry black woman who got everything in life from affirmative action.. Kass is afraid of being cancelled by the blm scum who run Chicago.

Ambiguous End
5 years ago

Ms. Mayor jumps on bandwagons without any clear understanding of the situation. Our leaders and the .01% elites want more pain, destruction and shock, a completely broken precariat, in order to enable their “Great” Reset. I’m waiting for Kass to take off the gloves and stop the buddy-buddy for access bs with Herr Mayor. Voting matters, but not so much if people do not believe that elections are honest and fair.

Daskoterzar
5 years ago

Step one. Defund the Police…that will of course solve everything. Step B – keep Foxx as AG because her ideas are equitable. and 4…blame Trump for all our problems. Democratic play book. She shouldn’t look to the Police to help much. They have have been told to stand down and simply write reports after the Crime. Pro-active Police work gets them in trouble and clearly the voters want what is happening now…after all they voted for it. The current Catch and Release process dictated by Foxx and the media and supported by the Mayor isn’t working…and somehow they and the… Read more »

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