OT: UM grad Lori Lightfoot on verge of being elected Chicago's mayor
She'd be Chicago's first black female mayor, not to mention first openly gay candidate, and win out over a 14 field including yet another Chicago Daley and her final opponent (another black female_ who's also the head of the Cook county Democratic party.
That's a lot of glass and other ceilings to break.
Not without her own critics, though.
https://www.newyorker.com/news/dispatch/chicago-prepares-to-elect-its-first-black-female-mayor
Fascinating? That’s certainly one word that could describe Chicago politics.
Gordon's sister?
Because much of the state is heavily Democratic Party & blue...
Uh, what? Outside of Chicago (which contains roughly 20% of the state's population), Illinois is as red as they come.
Cool now tell me again where all the people live... exactly.
That blue area is the Chicago metropolitan area, which has a population of 9.5 million. The entire rest of the state is 3 million people.
Also see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Political_party_strength_in_Illinois
Evidently Sleepy is not good at the maths. 9.5M is more than 20% of 12.5M.
Chicago is only 2.75 M. The "Chicagoland metropolitan area" also includes suburbs.
Correct, and that part is blue.
No wonder its windy.....9.5 million people exhaling will move some air
Vast empty stretches, for the most part.
Take that how you like...
If you are a Chicago politician who isn't corrupt, I have to ask what makes you so special.
I fully confess to knowing pretty much nothing about this or her except what's in the OP. So my opinion is meaningless. But it's very cool to hear about her.
Also, Lightfoot is a really cool name. Like, Name of the Year cool. And alliteration adds another level to Lori Lightfoot's laurels.
Daughter of Gordon, the fisherman.
Good luck to her. She’ll be inheriting a mess!
When I lived in St. Charles, IL, located in a county that borders Cook County (Chicago), there was a push to have residents in neighboring counties pay Cook County taxes. The City politicians assumed everyone benefited by visiting the city, so why not pay taxes.
The plan was soundly defeated. Something something taxation without representation...
Fun fact: Washington DC has no voting representation in the US Senate or House of Reps. So the capital of the country born from a revolution based on taxation without representation has taxation without representation.
St. Charles bro - that never happened, stop making things up.
Michigan difference at work
If she doesn't play "The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald" at her inauguration, she is missing an opportunity at great subtle humor...
The legend lives on .....
From the Chippewa on down...
I dunno. I would think that you would want as few references to "wrecks" as possible when taking over as mayor of Chicago . . .
I'm sure she'll do about as well as every other Chicago mayor. Looking forward to higher taxes and still increasing the budget gap somehow.
Haha...20 of us Chicago homeowners upvote in self pity...
Uh oh, politics.
This should go well
Ann Arbor indoctrinates leftism...my guess is the OP is proud of this leftist being elected because it validates their leftism.
Right winger disdain for colleges always surprise me. Why make an account and actively participate since you hate Michigan's liberalness so much? You can always not go to Michigan for college and go to one of those bible thumping schools like Liberty that espouse your bullshit.
Non-political reason to hate Liberty: they hired Hugh Freeze as football coach and Ian McCaw as athletic director. I think we all remember Hugh Freeze, but Ian McCaw was the athletic director at Baylor when the recent unpleasantness went down.
I'm not a right winger or bible thumper. I didn't know anything about the leftist indoctrination at UM when I enrolled. Fortunately, I was wise enough to laugh at the lunatic left when exposed to them.
Hey here you are still supporting it. Thanks for your money I guess?
I am not a right-winger. I just randomly complain with right-wing talking points like leftist indoctrination on college campuses and use terms like "lunatic left." But I'm not a right-winger.
Most of the players and coaches of our teams are very religious. Why shit on them? Why make an account and actively participate?
Most of -- how the fuck do you know?
easy clue: check the tattoos. guessing you'll find that a fair number have crosses, bible verses, praying hands, etc.
Correct me if I'm wrong, but aren't tattoos forbidden? Lev 19:28, IIRC.
So is shagging your neighbor's wife or shagging your neighbors' wives or if in some parts of Utah shagging your neighbor's wives.
Nobody follows the Book verbatim.
you are confusing the temporary mosaic covenant with our existing NT covenant of grace. i would love to have a very interesting theological discussion with you about it, but out of comity with our mgoblog brothers/sisters it will have to wait for some other time/forum.
Beilein and Harbaugh are both ardently Catholic. I do think the football team has a large group of outspokenly Christian players. They pray as a team before every game.
Catholic, yes. Not so sure about the "ardently" part, what with the divorce and all.
He used the phrases "most of" and "teams".
I've yet to see a tatted-up field hockey player.
The poster pulled that comment right out of piehole and obviously failed stats.
Why can't he love Michigan athletics and dislike what liberal crooks have done to Chicago at the same time? Are you saying you must be liberal to like UM sports? I don't think that's how it works.
It’s funny to me that right wingers always like to play victim on college campuses yet go to said colleges. They have options to go elsewhere, but they don’t. Then they graduate and act like Michigan was the worst place ever bc their views (most of which probably deserve derision) were in the minority.
You don't own the place, dummy.
Co-sign. No one shrieks in a higher pitch about victimization with less evidence of such than conservatives on college campuses.
sopwith, with genuine respect, do a little internet sleuthing and start with the riots, shutting down right-leaning speeches with violence, threats of violence, or exorbitant 'public safety fees' and also more recent attack(s) of right-leaning folks just at UC berkeley. antifa is a thing, those are left-leaning violent extremists. pretty much every riot, every burnt car, every smashed business window is by some group on campus or off that isn't right-leaning.