Lori Lightfoot lost in the first round of voting. But she told POLITICO she's glad the tough-on-crime candidate didn’t win either.
“There’s been this obsession that ‘She’s not nice’ and ‘She rubs people the wrong way.’ Well, we got a lot of shit done,” Lightfoot said during an interview in her office on the 5th Floor of City Hall, describing how her critics have portrayed her. “And I am proud. I’m very proud of it, unapologetically.”
Lightfoot with her wife, Amy, and daughter, Vivian, makes her way to the stage for a farewell address to friends and supporters in Chicago on Monday, May 8, 2023. | Shia Kapos/POLITICO Given how important public safety was in a mayor’s race that attracted nine Democratic candidates this year, Lightfoot said the party needs to figure out how to balance its themes. Progressive Mayor-elect Brandon Johnson won running to Lightfoot’s left and that of other Black mayors, including Eric Adams in New York City, on policing, so she said it’s critical to weave multiple issues together.
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