The mayoral candidates' remarks followed a meeting with the Chicago Tribune Editorial Board – in which they faced some tough questions.
As CBS 2 Political Investigator Dana Kozlov reported, the comments by Mayor Lori Lightfoot and U.S. Rep. Jesus"Chuy" García followed a meeting with the Chicago Tribune Editorial Board – in which they faced some tough questions.
Those questions put both Lightfoot and García on the defensive, at times, about recent claims and controversies surrounding each of them.García bristled, yet was defiant, when talking for the first time about being linked to ex-Illinois House Speaker Michael Madigan and the ComEd scandal.Last week, sources confirmed in several reports that García is the unnamed congressman in the federal ComEd corruption case.
García and Lightfoot both took questions after their meeting with the Tribune Editorial Board. Kozlov asked the mayor about crime – and her campaign's claim in a recent statement that her public safety plan is"reducing violence across the city.""Can you clarify that statement? Because it is not exactly true."Well, no, I think it is true – very much true. The fact that homicides are down is very much on the mind of people in the city.
Breaking out carjackings, or vehicular hijackings, from overall robbery numbers, the mayor is right. But our analysis found armed robberies with a gun, and strong arm robberies, are up year-to-year. So are aggravated assaults and criminal sexual assaults."The mayor says Chicago has become safer, and that crime is down," said García.
Another mayoral candidate, Cook County Commissioner Brandon Johnson , also took part in the editorial board meeting. He slipped out a side entrance and never took any questions.
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