Ald. Susan Sadlowski Garza said Lightfoot has "managed to piss off every single person" she's encountered.
One of Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot’s top City Council allies said she will “absolutely not” support her campaign for re-election and criticized the mayor for being divisive, comments that reflect broader discontent with Lightfoot’s leadership style as she prepares to seek a second term.
“I’m tired of being ignored. I’m tired of not getting phone calls returned. I’m tired of letting the inmates run the asylum. Yeah, no. Absolutely not,” Garza said in the podcast, published over the weekend. “I have never met anybody who has managed to piss off every single person they come in contact with — police, fire, teachers, aldermen, businesses, manufacturing, and that’s it. I said it. That’s it. I don’t care.
Garza was a key ally early in the Lightfoot administration, helping the mayor pass labor legislation like the “fair workweek” ordinance requiring large Chicago employers to give workers at least two weeks’ advance notice of their schedules and compensate them for last-minute changes. At a celebratory news conference after that City Council meeting, Garza gave Lightfoot a bottle of Hienie’s hot sauce, a Southeast Side staple.