At Saturday's mayoral candidates' forum, Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot went head to head with her challengers on issues like abortion rights, anti-violence funding and economic development.
Ald. Sophia King, 4th, speaks as Mayor Lori Lightfoot, right, listens during a mayoral candidates' forum Saturday.
Vallas, who earlier in the day released a plan to support reproductive rights, responded by saying he has “always been pro-choice” and pledged to “ensure that Chicago is a reproductive safe haven.”“Lori likes to invent new facts to suit her narrative,” Vallas said. “That dog doesn’t hunt in this day.”
Activist Ja’Mal Green said he’d be “pro-women” and criticized the Lightfoot administration for how it handled the case of Anjanette Young, a social worker whose home was wrongly raided by Chicago Police. The mayor’s administration initially refused to provide her with copies of police video of the raid and later asked a federal judge to prevent CBS Chicago from publishing the video.
“The fact that Paul Vallas, who has privatized public education all over this country, is even on this stage having a conversation about public education, is morally bankrupt,” Johnson said.Johnson also again called for a tax increase on the city’s highest property sales to fund homelessness services, decrying how “The police budget is one of the biggest budgets that we’ve seen in the history of this city. We’re spending more money to lock them up than house them.
“I must say to Mr. Garcia that if you really believe in bringing us together, you should take back the money that you took from Local 150,” saying the union is backing anon crane operator regulations that “would exclude the African American businesses from them.”
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