With Democratic strongholds like Chicago having witnessed a massive surge in crime and violence over the last year, not only have the Democrats seen their approval numbers drop, but apparently, they don’t even want to discuss the issue. That is exactly what happened when Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot was asked about the influx in criminal activity.
Taking questions from the press, Lightfoot, as can be seen in the video below, appeared to completely shut down when William Kelly confronted her with the truth. And to make it worse, Kelly, who is known for getting under Lightfoot’s skin, didn’t offer his opinion on the Mayor but people who call Chicago home. He asked, “I’ve been asked by real Chicagoans to ask you, are you lying or are you incompetent?”
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After claiming the statement was nothing more than a lie and Kelly supposedly being hit with the microphone, he rephrased his question to, “Mayor Lightfoot, every time I asked you about crime in Chicago, you say crime is down. Real Chicagoans know that that’s not true. The crime is up. Violence, sexual assault. It’s on the news every day. Violent carjackings every day. Hit and Run. 100 Day hit and run of Chicagoans. The obvious question that I’ve been asked by real Chicagoans to ask you is – are you lying, or are you incompetent?
Again, Lightfoot refused to acknowledge that many residents weren’t happy with her leadership, but she did answer that the information being presented was wrong. “Okay, because you want to give a speech and pontificate. But you don’t actually want to listen to the facts. And the facts are, while nobody’s taking a victory lap, while we have a lot more work to do – the fact of the matter is carjackings are down, shootings are down, and homicides are down.”
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Surprisingly, Kelly was given another chance to ask a question, leading him to state, “The reason why workers do not want to return to the downtown offices. The reason why tourism is obviously flatlined is because people are afraid of violent crime, especially in downtown Chicago, River North, Streeterville, Millennium Park, Grant Park. We have every single day, violent carjackings, guns to the head…”
As many times before, Kelly was interrupted as Lightfoot went on another rant, ultimately blaming COVID-19. “Well, first of all, let me just say this, we are actually seeing an increase in the number of people that are coming back downtown. And it’s certainly an increase over last year and month over month. And part of the reason that we’ve heard from employers is that they still haven’t brought back all their employees because of first, Delta, which we were experiencing in the fall. And then Omicron, which we’re experiencing at the end of the year and the beginning of this year. Our expectations based upon our regular conversations with employers and building owners is that we’re going to start to see more and more people come back downtown. So once again, it’s really important that you get your facts right.”
This piece was written by Zach Heilman on June 22, 2022. It originally appeared in RedVoiceMedia.com and is used by permission.
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unbelievably incompetent person
total liar
She is an incompetent liar and uglier than a mud fence.
Lori, in other words: Don’t trust your lying eyes – just listen to me.
She was selected NOT elected. You guys are so easily FOOLED.
Short answer to the reporter’s question is obviously that Lightfoot is lying.
It’s what Leftists do because they don’t lead with logic, they lead with (volatile) emotions which makes them incompetent, and thus they lie…a lot.
She was SELECTED NOT elected.
She’s lying AND she’s incompetent. And she’s ugly. Why are these horrible politicians that wreck their cities, states and country so protected? Is this an alien takeover?
One trans boy not being able to use a girl’s bathroom is a tragedy but 1,000s of victims of violent crime, mostly black people, is no big deal.
There is no mayor of Chicago. The office is vacant. Is anyone interested in doing battle with the crooked elections to run for Mayor?
EXACTLY. It’s all a SHAM.
Just like there IS NO PRESIDENT.
Been saying this for years.
And regarding comments having to “await approval”.
First of all, I HATE communism, and I especially hate the ORIGINS of communism. They took that from you in the schools in 1979 with the Department of Mind-Controlling the Children aka the “Department Of Education”. Karl Marx’s real name was Moses Mordachai Levi (they always change their names…there’s always SO MUCH HIDING…HINT HINT).
So I hate the people on the “left”. With a passion. More than I hate the brainwashed Idolaters on the “right”. And by the way, the “right” and “left”? They’re just false paradigms for the easily brainwashed. Your “conservative” or “liberal” pseudo-ideologies are merely “ear tags” to help them know which pen to put your wee little minds in.
Don’t worry, I get it…”public education” aka “indoctrination centers” did this to most of you. I was the kid sitting next to you in class. While you were staring at the chalkboard in rapt wonder, I was drawing in my notebook, reading a book, ANYTHING to escape the horrors you all seemed to just adapt to. Not many of us escape those places with our intellect and capacity for independent thought in tact. I’m one of the lucky few. Most of you did NOT survive. If you voted for “Trump”, you did not survive. If you voted for “Biden”…you did not survive. IF YOU VOTED…you did not survive.
So when you’re on the “right”, and you see this, you want to call me a “leftists!” And if you’re on the “left”, your uncontrollable impulse will be to call me a “fascist!” because that’s the term you use for the right. Whatever. Because you’ve all been pre-programmed to de-humanize one another and put people in the category of the “OTHER SIDE”…”They’re NOT PEOPLE! They’re on the OTHER SIDE! THEY’RE THE THREAT!”…You can label me whatever you like because I know your delicate psyches have to defend themselves as they’re programmed to do, when faced with truth like this. 90-95% of people are brainwashed morons. If you’re reading this, DID YOU VOTE? Then you’re a brainwashed moron. Sorry. Been trying to politely wake you up for years.
But despite my inherent dislike of BOTH SIDES, despite my disagreeing with BOTH of them, on MOST ISSUES, I will stand against any attempt by this website, by any government agency, by any individual, group, or nation, to POLICE (police means CONTROL) what people say in a comment section. There is nothing more damning, more DESTRUCTIVE to liberty, then thinking you should, for ANY reason, restrict what people have to say.
I don’t care what idiot thing someone on WHATEVER side has to say, they should be allowed to say it. It is, in fact, taking away the FREEDOM TO CHOOSE away from EVERY SINGLE PERSON that might read it. All any comment section needs, is an IGNORE feature. Because that’s REAL LIFE, REAL FREEDOM, and REAL LIBERTY. The FREEDOM to CHOOSE to listen to what some lunatic on either side (or no side at all) says, or to IGNORE THEM AND WALK AWAY.
The reason for “free speech” laws isn’t to protect popular speech.
It is to protect UNPOPULAR SPEECH.
Whether you agree or not.
That’s what I thought.
Pathetic.
The children of Yahweh will prevail.