Chicago’s incumbent Mayor, Lori Lightfoot, just lost in a landslide. She came in third place and barely received 17 percent of the vote from Chicago voters – 83 percent chose someone else. That means she’ll miss out on a top-two run-off election in April and become the first Chicago mayor in 40 years to lose reelection.
The mayor has only herself to blame. Voters were pleading for her to get tough on criminals. Instead, she spent time and taxpayer dollars making cringeworthy videos on Chinese Communist Party-owned TikTok.
She ignored her employers and now she’s out of a job.
It’s The Crime, Stupid.
It didn’t take a genius to recognize what issue mattered most to Chicago voters – it’s crime. It was always crime. The city has been plagued by crime since Mayor Lightfoot was first elected and it only became worse during her tenure.
In the lead-up to the election, 44 percent of voters said crime and public safety were their top issues. The second-place issue, jobs, came in at 13 percent, far behind safety. Two-thirds of voters said they personally don’t feel safe, and half of voters said they were going to cast their ballot for a candidate who would get tough on criminals. No surprises Mayor Lightfoot lost given those numbers. A brief history shows why.
In 2020, crime was already plaguing the Windy City, and the coronavirus pandemic made it worse. Ahead of Memorial Day weekend 2020, Mayor Lightfoot, the Chicago Chief of Police and even gun control groups got together to plan for a violent weekend and urge city residents to remain safe, as if asking criminals politely would do the trick. The preparation failed and it was a violent weekend for the record books. Instead of taking accountability, Mayor Lightfoot blamed others. “Whatever the plan was, it didn’t work,” she said.
Later that year, Mayor Lightfoot caved to irresponsible pressure to defund the police and eliminated 600 law enforcement positions while crime surged. Mayor Lightfoot continued embracing strict gun control that limited Chicagoans’ ability to protect themselves even as police retirements continued climbing and the city’s crime problem grew.
In 2021, Chicago criminals still ignored the mayor’s pleas to stop their violent ways. In broad daylight, criminals exchanged gunfire between cars and a home with police officers nearby, tragically killing one person. Five others were taken into custody and despite clear video evidence to charge the perpetrators, nothing was done. Still, Mayor Lightfoot blamed others. “Given that evidence, a pod camera right there that captured the entire thing… why isn’t that enough?”
The buck stops with the mayor, doesn’t it? Chicago’s criminal violence left voters exasperated and searching for solutions. The answer wasn’t another term for Mayor Lightfoot.
Any Reflection?
Illinois has some of the strictest gun control laws in the country, and Chicago is even stricter. Stricter gun control laws just signed into law by Gov. J.B. Pritzker are facing court challenges already – including by NSSF – but it remains clear that Chicagoans want security and the means to protect themselves. That includes exercising Second Amendment rights to protect themselves. During Mayor Lightfoot’s tenure, more than 1.9 million Illinoisans purchased a firearm, according to NSSF adjusted FBI National Instant Criminal Background Check System (NICS) data.
After such a lopsided misreading of voters’ priorities, did Mayor Lightfoot understand she got it wrong? Hardly. The mayor again shifted blame back to voters and all but called them misogynistic racists.
The New York Post reported she blamed other factors, not crime, on her loss and when asked by a reporter if she’d been treated unfairly, the mayor responded, “I’m a black woman in America. Of course.”
Her hometown paper, the Chicago Tribune excoriated the mayor and her record on crime. “Lightfoot campaigned for mayor in 2019 by arguing crime was too high… But homicides, mostly from gun violence, spiked dramatically in 2020 and 2021… Shootings and carjackings also skyrocketed.” Mayor Lightfoot still blamed others for the criminal misuse of firearms in Chicago.
For voters, it wasn’t complicated. It wasn’t Mayor Lightfoot’s race, or her gender or her sexual orientation. For Chicago voters, it was about safety, crime and getting tough on criminals. And for that, voters gave the mayor the boot.
About The National Shooting Sports Foundation
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She, sorry, IT ticked all the quota boxes. Black, woman(though that is still debatable) and lesbian. It was a liberal smorgasbord of woke.
We all know it was those damn white domestic terrorists that ruined Chicago, LOL, Now you can go dress shopping with your gender-confused husband, skank.
May the ghost of Beetlejuice forever Haunt Chiraq as long as Democrats control it.
well, if your defense is the race and gender identity card you have a losing hand. eventually even the progressives in illinois are getting sick of diversity, inclusion and equity.
Well bye Beetlejuice,don’t let the door hit you in the backside on the way out.
Please let it and very Hard!
I’m hoping the windy city lives up to it’s name, and slams the door full force on her, and hard enough to knock the door out of the wall.
Its not so much the politicians we need to worry about as much as the Free-Shit Addicted Useful Idiot Government Plantation Dwellers that vote those politicians into power. Never underestimate the power of stupidity en masse.
Anyone from Chicago knows that if the machine wanted her to win, she would have won.
Beetlejuice, Beetlejuice, Beetlejuice!
“It was those tricksy Hobbitses, it was!”
Seriously though, 3rd place? Should be enough to terrify ALL the Dems on the crime issue.
She’s probably the only big city mayor ever that when they were ousted the whole damn country rejoiced!
Chicago is another once-great city ruined by DIE.
I grew up in Chicago, moved away a long time ago. As ghastly a mayor as Lightfoot was, don’t expect much of a change – one of the runoff candidates ran the Chicago school system, a horrid amalgamation of incompetence and corruption. The other candidate was a union boss for the Chicago teacher’s union, one of the most crooked and odious “anti-kid” unions in the nation. City government was bad when I lived there, and is likely to continue a downward spiral. Keep an eye out on whether or not they continue to tolerate bums camping in the terminals at… Read more »
I can almost see why people want to be bums. Be a bum & be truly free. Or be a slave to the system. I got to give them credit. It’s a ballsy move. Although I would sooner be a beach bum or mountain bum.
Like on John Wick ?
In the last 100 years (1923 – 2023) Chicago has only 1 conservative party affiliated mayor. That was William H Thompson. If you go back to 108 years of history the total would be 3 terms for a conservative and all of them were Thompson. (1915 – 1923 and 1927 – 1931). So for 91 years the city has been headed by Democrat party mayors. Richard J. Daley held the office for 21 years from 1955 to 1976. His son Richard M. Daley held office for 22 years from 1989 – 2011. The people of Chicago need to wake up… Read more »
Speaking about that and a bit Off Topic the guy FJ Biden wants for the
FAA to be head of doesn’t know what a Plane is.
That’s why he got the nomination…
The problem is actually fairly straightforward in more-than-a-few cases: You cannot work FOR organized crime AND AGAINST organized crime at the same time. And of course, once thoroughly intertwined and ensnared within the big money world of corporate level criminal enterprise, where thousands of millions of dollars illicitly change hands every single year, making the wrong kinds of choices could get you and everybody you care about very painfully killed. Clinton style suicided, even. Professional. A real political dilemma once your voters start tiring of all the violent crime and daily shootings and so forth, but you dare not bite… Read more »
I’ve been saying for years that the only logical explanation for the Democrat’s plethora of policies that favor criminals, gangs, and cartels over their constituents is money. One can only wonder how it flows and why it has not been exposed.
George Soros, who is a primary source of funds for Leftist causes, the Joyce Foundation, Move On dot Org, Americans Coming Together, prosecutors who refuse to prosecute, and the Democratic Party, has placed one of the biggest short positions in world history on the US Dollar.
Long story short, if America crashes, Soros stands to make an almost unimaginable amount of money.
The dots are all there in plain sight, but don’t hold your breath waiting for the press to connect them.
https://www.theguardian.com/business/2003/may/21/1
We can all participate in disrupting Soros’s plans by taking money out of our savings accounts. If the amount of cash in banks diminishes, that will show up in the M1 money supply reports and make the value of a dollar increase. Also banks are allowed to lend a multiple of money times what they have in accounts. If the amounts in the customer accounts diminishes, then the banks can lend less and the value of the dollar goes up.
We can screw Soros by just a trip to the bank.
Hey Ope, I think you need to spend it all, while it still has SOME value.
Buying a room full of long term food and canned stuff, might not be a bad idea. If Soros wins … that will be a terrific idea.
Don’t take all because you need to maintain that account.
I wrap my up butcher paper marked hamburger, and put it in my chest freezer. If Soros is successful … if the dollar collapses, then dollars, crypt, the stock market, and even gold will be worthless.
Yep!
My Ol’Man who grew up during the Great Depression taught me from an early age that the 2 most important things to stockpile were butter and bullets. Butter meaning food and the bullets being for protecting the food and gathering more as needed.
Being a crypto owner you may be interested in this article that I just saw: Central Bank Digital Currency Prison Catherine Austin Fitts Catherine Austin Fitts (CAF), Publisher of The Solari Report, financial expert and former Assistant Secretary of Housing (Bush 41 Admin.), says the Central Bank Digital Currency (CBDC) is much easier said than done. There is a monster fight behind the scenes between commercial banks and central banks. CAF explains, “You have bubbled an entire economy, and now you are bringing out something (CBDC) that could shrink the bubble dramatically, and it can put a lot of banks out of… Read more »
Do you really believe she did NOT perform the job she was sent there for ? Bring in the police State. Don’t allow a person to defend themselves. Instead tax you for police protection that is never there when you need it. She will live comfortably for the rest of her life. If she is even done running for another position. Would not surprise me to see her as a Senator next. lol
It seems even the radical New Left Progressives and communists of Barry Sotero’s and Bill Ayers’ Chicago have their limit when it comes to stupid. They just hit it with this urchin.
I DID NOT need to wake up, fire up my computer, scroll down ammoland.com and see that hideous face. Beetlejuice needs to slither off and join “it’s” legion of freaks and mutants in the sewers of Chit town.
I’m surprised that it’s not blaming the Democratic Party for allowing someone else to run. (When I was a child I was taught that there are three genders; everything was either a “he”, a “she”, or an “it”. I see no reason to alter the definitions of words.)
At a club I used to visit the DJ often addressed the crowd as “Ladies, Gentlemen, and all you creatures in between.”
“A Lesson from Lori Lightfoot’s Landslide Loss”
Probably:
SOME PEOPLE NEVER LEARN!
Look at NY, after the disaster of DiBlasio, they elected another democrat!
Then when Zeldin for Governor promised a day one war on crime, and the firing of Soros DAs, NYC VOTED OVERWHELMINGLY FOR HOCHUL!
I doubt Chicago will be any different.
Ding Dong the witch is dead. Hopefully she stays that way politically.
Does anyone know what people are talking about when they say Buck knife predate code?
OK, I did not know. Thank you. I bought a brand new Buck 107 with no date for $45. I looked for something comparable on eBay, and I think that I got a good deal
That’s ok.