Mayor Beetlejuice’s collapse is complete

OMG,

Congratulations Chicago! 🎉

The Worst Mayor EVER.

Hallelujah, praise the lord.

She is the WORST.

Lori’s mayoral tenure soon to be DEAD TO ME

Wait, there was an election? Can someone gives us a breakdown of events? It was a three way race?

Wow! I'm shocked. I thought for sure she would get in what with Biden & gang so lovey dovey to her.

How could you miss a face like this?

Chicago obviously doesn’t know how to quit Rahm

There were about 6 candidates, R6, and it was expected that the result of this election would necessitate a runoff.

All the racist Republicans weighing in

I much prefer her stellar work in S5 E3 of The Sopranos where, on a crack binge, she offers a confused Junior Soprano, walking around the streets in his bathrobe, a date consisting of some half-n-half in the back seat of a car.

She should have gotten the Emmy that year.

Sorry, wrong link...

R12 I’m as left as they come and she was a shitty mayor. My left nut would have been a better mayor. She has zero people skills. Good riddance.

So sad. Best mayor in the history of Illinois 😢

The white guy will clean that place up.

[quote] The white guy will clean that place up.

No one will ever clean up Chicago.

That city is rotten to the core.

Corrupt, violent, and lawless.

There is no solution to the crime problem or the gun violence in that city.

To be perfectly honest, I think it has to be treated like a third world country with a military crackdown on the city.

r18 You can't treat systemic and cultural issues with a military crackdown, what part of the Iraq and Afghanistan escapades didn't you get?

An alternative, R18:

Well that's too damn bad!

I hate seeing a lesbian go down...

The progressive vote splintered but it will unite around Johnson. Vallas is a dead man.

So what do we now about her possible successors? What vision do they have for Chicago?

*know

R18 believes what he hears Sean Hanity say.

R25, anyone with even the tiniest bit of knowledge about the history of Chicago politics knows that to be true.

With her CV as a prosecutor and graduate of University Chicago Law School, and her experience in law enforcement and executive experience,

I HOPE LORI GETS NOMINATED TO THE SCOTUS

.. wait, don’t you think a little judicial experience oughta be necessary r27?

Some of the best appointees to the SCOTUS did not have judicial experience. Lori would be an awesome Justice.

She would be a better hairstylist or makeup artist.

Oh Lori

R28 Actually a Judge Judy type show with her might be interesting.

Again, I think a Black Lesbian with her CV would be a great SCOTUS appointment.

Did Judge Judy graduate from UC Law? Liz Cheney did.

I don't trust her judgement. CV be damned, she shouldn't have power over other people.

Who’s the new mayor? Is it Candyman?

She's the daughter of Moms Mabley and Sammy Davis, Jr.

No more elected officials or hires based on personal identity checkboxes being ticked!

You mean, r37, like the Fundy White Supremacist Heterosexual Evangelicals and Catholics that comprise the current Supreme Court? Just a different set of checkboxes.

Oh, you meant elected officials, not appointed.

Yeah, right.

Magnificent news!!! Chicago is waking up ha ha ha

The Windy City gave her a cold shoulder!

Not surprised...not surprised at all. Who was worse?....Beetlejuice or DeBlazio (former NYC)?

Who are the heterosexual evangelicals on the Supreme Court?

Progressive sounds good on paper and usually struggles to succeed on the job. This is just the latest example.

I said hetero Evangelicals and Catholics.

I was wrong. The religious wackos are all Catholics.

Thank you for correcting me.

Second City denies second term.

R13 She is odd looking.

If anything people are being attractive-ist/ ugly-ist/weird-ist.

When half the the Last of Us thread said the girl is ugly, it was not racism or anglophobia. Some people are unfortunate looking like Haley Joel Osmond.

I'm really sick of everyone throwing out racism. Real racism includes violence. Micro aggressions and prejudice are not as severe actual racism. Some poke fun memes at someone's looks is very DL, funny and not racism.

The fact that 99% of people are going on and on about her looks and not listing any policies represents the entire problem with politics in this country and, basically, the world in general. I'm glad she was around during Covid. Paul Vallas would have probably gone the way of his Repug-lite brethren across the country and tried at first but just given up. She also faced the "she's not an attractive woman" bias from the city council she had to work with. You want to talk about a parade of fools, look there. She was basically unable to herd a bunch of retarded cats.

No one will ever clean up Chicago.

"That city is rotten to the core.

Corrupt, violent, and lawless.

There is no solution to the crime problem or the gun violence in that city.

To be perfectly honest, I think it has to be treated like a third world country with a military crackdown on the city."

Your typical KKKlan Granny hysteria response. I'm sure R18 has no problem with a bunch of angry ass old white guys storming the US Capitol and murdering capitol police because some man-child felt he's been slighted.

Violent crime surged during her tenure, spilling over from the long-deadly south side into tourist areas and the predominately white north. That's why she lost. The guy who got the most votes in the runoff campaigned almost exclusively on stopping crime.

R49, the fact that you know so little about the race and the city that you called Vallas "the guy who got the most votes" pretty much invalidates your opinion.

It was hilarious watching all the ads and debates with all the liars promising to add millions of police and stop all the crime and fund everything under the sun. They had no ideas about where the money was going to come from. I can't wait to watch whichever person is ultimately elected try to implement their "ideas" and get shot down just like Lightfoot was over and over.

Vallas is a Repug in Dem clothing and Brandon Johnson got a whole lot of campaign money from "somewhere". Hm.

I hope she wasn't carrying cash on her way to the polling place.

[quote]The fact that 99% of people are going on and on about her looks and not listing any policies represents the entire problem with politics

You really think she wasn't re-elected because she's not good-looking?! Are you serious?

What policies? If you don't want to be robbed and possibly gunned down in the street, don't carry cash?

R52, even worse than simply not getting re-elected because of how she looks, I'd argue that a lot of her problems were due to how non-pretty people are treated. Go look up all the research on how much better good looking people are treated across the board.

And, that you are pulling the disingenuous "Lightfoot caused all the crime!" card, you should also look up crime rates across the country, especially in large metro areas. Chicago is nowhere near the top per capita. You are literally just using a Trump talking point.

[quote]And, that you are pulling the disingenuous "Lightfoot caused all the crime!" card,

Are you stupid? Who the fuck said she caused all the crime? I said her policies didn't help or do anything to combat it. Because I can't stand this ineffectual bitch it's supposed to be a trump talking point? You're out of your fucking head, cunt.

I think the callous "let them eat cake" attitude toward public safety may have something to do with Lightfoot's (and her supporter's!) consistent unpopularity.

Not according to r53. According to him it's solely because she ugly. 🙄

R49 doesn't even know enough about the election to be aware that this wasn't a runoff.

Get rid of the DA next.Both in Chicago and NY.

My boner still won't quit.

I remember her shutting down the beaches during COVID. People were jumping off the concrete walls between Fullerton and Montrose instead.

I also remember her talking tough shit about businesses and people violating COVID drama rules, but never speaking that harshly against the violence and looting in 2020 on the Mag Mile. Pussing out on the Columbus statue. Water Tower is dead; Macy's left under her after this. We're losing the Bears - the anchor of Soldier Field we already pumped tons of money into.

She did dumb shit like push for renaming Congress (Now Ida B. Wells) and Lake Shore Drive (now JEAN BAPTISE POINTE DU SAUBLE Lake Shore Drive).

It's such a justified but disappointing end. In the beginning, she had so many people behind her, especially the gays and lesbians. Now most gays and lesbians are supporting PAUL VALLAS of all people. My how the tides have shifted.

Omgggg r13, r14, you nailed it 🤣🤣🤣

Victim hood creates monsters. Lori could have been somebody.

Off course she is crying waycism instead of her own incompetence

[quote]Not according to [R53]. According to him it's solely because she ugly.

One wonders how she got elected the first time, then.

R38 is a victim too. Should we elect them?

No one is supporting Brett & Amy, shut up you dumb fucking idiot. Yes, we don’t want people elected OR appointed just because they’re Christian. We discuss that ALL THE TIME about republicans.

You’re one of the progressives who cause democrats to lose because you try to shutdown any internal criticism aka strategizing how to win. You’re a piece of shit who obviously has some checkboxes that benefit you, so I know you got that little grifting hand sticking out for a freebie.

Four years ago, she was a darling among national Democrats. The first openly gay Black woman to serve as mayor of Chicago and only the second woman to do so in the city’s history.

On Tuesday, she joined Jane Byrne and Michael Bilandic as the the only elected mayors of Chicago to be denied a second term since Prohibition.

How did Lori Lightfoot fall so far, so fast, to the point where she couldn’t even make it into a runoff between the two top finishers?

Her election was a bit of a fluke, her opponent was even less appealing as a candidate. Her past work with the police board should have been helpful but it didn’t work out that way. Her basic personality leans towards authoritarian, which prevented her from building relationships with the community. Her own team started bailing after the first year. After the first George Floyd protests when the city was basically trashed, she was never going to win reelection. Chicago’s a tough city to govern, but those that manage it past the first term are those that figure out how to partner with the aldermen, police, governor, etc.

She was up for re-election now ? Isn't end of February an odd time for a Mayorak election ? Aren't most major federal and local elections in November ?

[quote]After the first George Floyd protests when the city was basically trashed

You can tell the media really did a number on the truth by the fact that people just casually insist the entire metropolitan Chicago area was destroyed by BLM.

I bet Rahm has a clean, tight hole from all that ballet dancing.

Chicago elections are always in the spring on off years. Don't ask me why R67.

R70 Why are elections always in the spring on off years ?

-R67

[quote]You can tell the media really did a number on the truth by the fact that people just casually insist the entire metropolitan Chicago area was destroyed by BLM.

The downtown areas WERE you gaslighting turd. No one is acting like Rogers Park was.

Here. Have some pics from Aug 2020 I took in the gold coast. Mag Mile, Oak, Rush... all boarded up and Lori didn't let CPD through these vandals into Cook County to rot. Some of the classier stores tried to match their ghetto plywood to their brand by painting it. A Potemkin Metro. No one wants to see this shit and let moments like this go uncontested.

She spoke hard on people hanging out at Hollywood beach, but not on the crime plaguing this city.

[quote]Lori didn't let CPD through these vandals into Cook County to rot.

Oh, dear!

I know. I saw that and was like fuck fuck fuck haha

I luv ya anyway, r74!

Gee what else was going on in August of 2020 that would cause fancy, expensive stores in central Chicago to close up?

You retard. You think stores covered their glass in plywood because of Covid? Troll elsewhere.

She was the worst and most decisive mayor in the history of Chicago. Good riddance. Next up is that twat Kim Fox

A stupid bitch that ran on racism and dumb work policies. So glad Chicago woke up!

Here you go. More dystopia from that day. TOTES Covid, bro.

Around this time every store had a "Black Lives Matter" sign in their window on the north side. Gay bars included. It was like a Black Passover, as if blood on the door frame to say "please don't smash and loot us."

She was decisive and ran on work politics?

It's hard to take you republicans seriously when you're so dumb.

I would like to see proof of gay support of Paul Vallas.

Why do I feel like this is just like Chesa Boudin's recall?

Everyone will stop paying attention to a city's problems when the media-generated boogeyman is ousted.

Is SF a crime-free wonderland now that Boudin got recalled? Was Chicago a wonderfully safe Nirvana when it was run by the very pro-cop, very anti-"woke", Republican-adjacent Rahm Emanuel?

OBAMA'S CHIEF OF STAFF (Rahm) BEING REPUBLICAN.

holy shit you socialists (Brandon Johnson) supporters are legitimately insane.

Alderman Tunney, the first gay Alderman - and Alderman of Boystown for decades now - supported Vallas, R82.

He's also Lightfoot's own Vice Mayor lol.

Need a higher profile than that, R82?

I swear you socialists write your own realities. No gay support for Vallas. Rahm is a REPUBLICAN. Looting never happened; businesses boarded up because of Covid. Good grief.

People who think Rahm (or indeed Obama) were super liberal should maybe examine whether they are, in fact, conservative.

I can understand attacking her as mayor, but I don't get the attacks on her looks like she can help the way that she looks.

R87 you're on the DL here. You think we don't attack people based on their looks?

Did her pussy stink?

For an incumbent mayor to receive barely 17% of the vote -- that is an unparalleled repudiation.

She does look like an extraterrestrial.

She's such a loser. Chicagoan here. The candidates run the gamut from mediocre to bad but the fact that Lori only managed to get third is just embarrassing. Usually the incumbent has an advantage (in any election) but she was just THAT bad. That's what she gets for not having communication skills and pissing off both teachers and police officers (something that will pretty much leave you stranded in Chicago politics).

[quote] All the racist Republicans weighing in

Nice to see you on DL Lori! And you suck because you're bad. Not because of your race/color. Hope that makes you feel better!

Lightfoot blames her loss on racism and sexism.

You may not have liked her, but you are going to see a real mess with the next mayor, whether that’s Johnson or Vallas. Johnson will destroy Chicago and Vallas would run the city like a tyrant.

Can someone tell me what policies Rahm persued as mayor that a Republican wouldn't? Didn't he collude with the CPD to cover up a murder?

R95, it's hilarious that all the people on here who are obviously not from anywhere near Chicago think that Vallas or Johnson are going to be saviors for Chicago. Oh, they'll get better media coverage, so it might look like it from the outside, but the realities will be very telling. Vallas or Johnson vs that asshole police union guy, Catanzara, should be fun. Vallas will probably call Pritzker a fat fuck at some point and Johnson will call him a white devil. The aldermen will still all act just like the assholes they are. It will be a shitshow.

[quote]it's hilarious that all the people on here who are obviously not from anywhere near Chicago think that Vallas or Johnson are going to be saviors for Chicago.

Please point to the posts that suggest either one of them is going to be a savior.

Oprah should be Mayor ! She will whip that city into shape.

What kind of pension do single term mayors of Chicago receive?

I live in a suburb north of Chicago and in the lake. When she shutdown the beaches during Covid, all those motherfuckers stormed our beaches. Yes, I’m a spoiled, entitled asshole but I hated dealing with the hordes that summer. that said , she probably saved a lot of lives.

R100 She's calling Fran Drescher tomorrow to see if she qualifies for SAG-AFTRA health insurance and pensions. After all, she did star in Beetlejuice, so she should be a qualifying member. We will have to wait for Drescher to tell the world when she's on the red carpet at the Oscars.

No surprise she’s blaming racism, specifically for being a black woman. If racism was involved, then why did Chicago select two black women as its top two finishers in the last election, which she won? Someone in the media needs to call her out on that. That line of reasoning is as sane as her policies as mayor. I was surprised she won the previous race, given that she had that ethics scandal while on the police commission board.

Lori and Danielle can now commiserate together. Viola will be joining them shortly. What will Sunny have to say about this?

She looks like the love-child of Wanda Sykes and Beetlejuice.

I’m not really sure closing the beaches did anything to stop the spread of Covid. As long as there’s some distance from people. Covid doesn’t spread that easily outdoors in warm weather. There really was no mass spread from the spring breakers that crowded then beaches.

..the Florida beaches.

Chicago,saw,the thefts double in one year. No mayor can survive that.

[quote]Lightfoot blames her loss on racism and sexism.

I believe this is another reason she lost. Nothing is her fault, it's racism (even though she was elected in the first place. I guess the racists took off the day of that election).

Lori, see R93.

BUMP

[quote] If racism was involved, then why did Chicago select two black women as its top two finishers in the last election, which she won?

Yes, just like electing Obama solved racism in the USA! Your points are very interested and I'd be interested in subscribing to your newsletter!

You didn't answer that question, r109--you just ridiculed its even being asked with trite pat phrases.

It's much, much easier to blame racism than admit my own shortcomings, folks. Er, I mean, folx!

Racism was not the reason she lost. It's because she was incompetent and just not a leader.

She let her mayoralty ride too much on her physical beauty.

[quote] Chicago police chief, U.S. attorney resign after Mayor Lori Lightfoot loses reelection

CHICAGO – The head of the Chicago Police Department and the U.S. Attorney for the Northern District of Illinois announced their resignations Wednesday, hours after Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot lost her bid for reelection.

Chicago Police Superintendent David Brown is resigning effective March 16, Lightfoot said in a statement.

John Lausch, Jr., head of the U.S. Attorney's office in Chicago, is resigning effective March 11, his office said in a statement.

News of the departures comes after Lightfoot failed to win enough votes in Tuesday's mayoral election to advance to an April runoff. None of the nine candidates won a majority in the officially nonpartisan election.

Paul Vallas, 69, the former head of Chicago Public Schools, and Brandon Johnson, 46, on the Cook County Board of Commissioners, came out as the top two vote-getters. Vallas, who claimed the largest share of the vote with 34%, had said he would fire Brown if elected mayor.

Here's what to know.

Brown informed Lightfoot of the decision on Wednesday, Lightfoot said. He took over as head of the nation's second-largest municipal police department in April of 2020, overseeing the agency amid rising crime at the height of the COVID-19 pandemic and protests in the wake of the murder of George Floyd.

First Deputy Eric Carter will be appointed as interim superintendent until the new mayor is sworn into office, Lightfoot said. She called on the city's newly formed civilian police oversight body – the Community Commission for Public Safety and Accountability – to immediately begin the search for a new superintendent.

In a statement, Lightfoot applauded Brown for setting a record number of illegal gun recoveries for two years, leading a double-digit reduction in violent crime in 2022, standing up a full-time recruitment team that yielded over 950 new hires, expanding resources for officer wellness and promoting more women to senior ranks.

"I personally want to thank him for his service to our city," Lightfoot said.

In a statement, Brown said he accepted a job as Chief Operating Officer of Loncar Lyon Jenkins, a personal injury law firm with seven offices in Texas. He said he's stepping down "so the incoming mayor can begin the process as soon as possible to hire the next Superintendent."

"It has been an honor and a privilege to work alongside the brave men and women of the Chicago Police Department," Brown said. "I will continue to pray that all officers return home to their families safe at the end of their shift. May the Good Lord bless the city of Chicago and the men and women who serve and protect this great city."

The Chicago Police Department has about 12,000 sworn officers and has long been plagued by scandals. A Justice Department report released in 2017 found the CPD is beset by widespread racial bias, excessive use of force, poor training and feckless oversight of officers accused of misconduct.

The department and city since 2019 have been under a federal consent decree, a court-approved settlement that requires the department to reform training, policies and practices in a number of areas.

Lausch announced his departure moments after news of Brown's resignation late Wednesday. He's served in the role since late 2017, when he was appointed by President Donald Trump.

Lausch spearheaded the office through the COVID-19 pandemic and oversaw multiple racketeering prosecutions of members of organized criminal street gangs and gang factions, as well as of illegal gun offenders. His office also launched a Gun Crimes Prosecution Team and a Gun Trafficking Strike Force.

"It has been the privilege of a lifetime to lead the U.S. Attorney’s Office in Chicago," Lausch said.

First Assistant U.S. Attorney Morris "Sonny" Pasqual will assume the position on an acting basis, the office said in a statement.

Daley Jr. was mayor for 100 years and all he did was displace and disenfranchise poor people and give tax breaks to developers to gentrify and build on every square inch of available land. He eliminated public housing and made all his Bridgeport pals Section 8 slumlords. He didn't advocate for rent control or a living wage, he didnt curb drug trafficking or illegal firearms, or address police ineptitude and antipathy towards residents. His whole solution to crime was to try to confine it to the south and west sides of the city.

Chicago has had nearly a century of ineffective leadership.

Now get rid of Adams in New York.

Lol Chicago is so predictable.

Lori can spend lots of time vacationing at the beach.

Never forget

Lol, I hate that she got that nickname. She just wasn’t fit for the job however she should still feel proud of her accomplishments.

R68 No one said the “entire metropolitan Chicago area” but the city center, including from city hall and the board of trade - was very much trashed. Boarded up, stores empty, for lease signs everywhere. It was trashed…and it hasn’t recovered yet. When the local government infrastructure fails to the extent that Bloomingdale’s is looted, it’s a problem for the person sitting in the mayor’s office a few blocks away.

R119 Oh my, she looks like Ivanka's 'special needs son' who Ivanka bought as a souvenir on her trip to Africa.

Don't worry about those empty, boarded-up stores, R121. They have insurance.

R123 what an anarchist cunt. Slaves like Harriet Tubman and visionaries like Medger Evers would be appalled.

Whatever happened to the woman who during the Chicago riots looted both a mattress and a box spring?

She's had the ebst sleep in her life over the past three years. She just wishes she stole one of those 'Sleep Number' mattresses !

[quote]Oh my, she looks like Ivanka's 'special needs son' who Ivanka bought as a souvenir on her trip to Africa.

To me it looks like Ivanka got a trophy from the NAACP.

Repair-ations.

Free college. Free health care.

End.

Beetlejuice!

Beetlejuice!

Beetlejuice!

r8 i think this beetlejuice is more on the mark: