As Chicago readies to elect first-ever black female mayor, campaign rhetoric gets ugly
CHICAGO – The historic election Tuesday that will lead to the nation’s third-largest city electing a black woman as mayor for the first time in its 182-year history has been shaped by name-calling, campaign surrogates raising questions about racial authenticity and a barrage of negative campaign advertisements.
“The race was competitive and often divisive,” Jackson said. “The race ends Tuesday. The healing must begin Wednesday morning."Reps. Ayanna Pressley of Massachusetts and Jahana Hayes of Connecticut, both Democrats, became the first black women elected to Congress in those two states in November's midterm elections.
"It’s like cockroaches – there’s a light that’s shined on them," Lightfoot said at an event where she signed an ethics pledge."They scramble." One of Preckwinkle’s surrogates, Rep. Bobby Rush, D-Ill., suggested that Chicagoans should be suspicious of Lightfoot, who served on two police oversight boards. He said voters would have blood on their hands if they voted for her.
Rush did not mention that Lightfoot was an early advocate of the consent decree and headed a police task force that concluded the department was plagued by racism and needed sweeping changes to win trust in minority communities. “Her opponent was not elected by the South Side. Her opponent was not elected by the West Side,” Chance said of Lightfoot. “Her opponent was elected by the North Side, and there’s two of us and one of them, and we need to come out in droves and elect our next mayor of Chicago, President Toni Preckwinkle.”
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