Chicago just doubled down on crazy.
According to a report from The Daily Wire, the Windy City elected Cook County Commissioner Brandon Johnson on Tuesday night to be the next mayor of Chicago —and he’s even more progressive than former failure Lori Lightfoot.
From The Daily Wire:
“Tonight is the beginning of a Chicago that truly invests in all of its people,” Johnson said in his victory speech. “The heart of this movement has always been about investing in people.”
Johnson garnered criticism throughout the campaign, which centered largely on the city’s struggles to handle rising violent crime, for his description of the “defund the police” movement as an “actual, real political goal” in a 2020 radio interview. He denounced the statement in later interviews, which Vallas made a feature in his campaign advertisements.
Lawlessness indeed rose dramatically during Lightfoot’s four-year tenure. There were 490 homicides in the Windy City as of 2019, the year in which Lightfoot assumed office, while murders soared to 772 in 2020 and 800 in 2021, marking an increase of more than 58% as nationwide Black Lives Matter protests occurred in the wake of the death of George Floyd. Lightfoot, who has a personal police unit with 71 officers assigned to protect her life, meanwhile proposed eliminating $80 million from the Chicago Police Department budget in 2020.
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Johnson said on his campaign website that he will “work with police and first responders to invest in community-based interventions that de-escalate conflict, reduce violence and make our neighborhoods safer.” Vallas, on the other hand, vowed on his website that he would increase the number of sworn officers and consider public safety a “basic human right.”
More over at The Daily Wire:
Leftist Chicago Mayoral Candidate Defeats Moderate Rival, Will Succeed Lori Lightfoot | The Daily Wire https://t.co/YnJltNihzK
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