With the Chicago mayoral election just one week away, Mayor Lori Lightfoot found herself under fire from multiple fronts Tuesday.
Anjanette Young offered a hug and an endorsement Tuesday to mayoral challenger Brandon Johnson. It came four years to the day when Chicago police wrongly raided Young's home, leaving her naked and handcuffed while officers searched her home in a case of a mistaken address.
"We're going to pass the Anjanette Young Ordinance," Johnson said, "and we're going to ensure that the type of brutality, the errors of this police department, that we put an end to that.""She has a right to support anyone that she wants," Lightfoot said.Illinois Comptroller Susana Mendoza "I do 100 % hold her responsible because her handpicked appointees followed the direction of the mayor," Mendoza said, "and for her to say she did not give them direction to deny them COVID benefits is like saying the Pope is Presbyterian."
"I know that we're in a final week of a long campaign and you've heard me call this the silly season and we're probably on the silly season on steroids," Lightfoot said.
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