With three weeks to go until the 2023 Chicago mayoral runoff election, Paul Vallas and Brandon Johnson are both hitting the airwaves with new attack ads.
“I never said defund the police. I want to clarify this,” he said. “What I said repeatedly is that we need to do what safe American cities do across this country.”
The Cook County commissioner also rolled out endorsements from members of the new Chicago police oversight council, with 36 out of the 66 newly-elected councilors backing his candidacy. “He is the only candidate that truly understands us,” Panchito Moore, recently elected to the Chicago Police Council, said. “And he sees us, because he is us.”
As for Vallas, he has continued to paint himself as a “lifelong Democrat” in television ads, and has continued to rack up endorsements, with Chicago Alds. Matthew O’Shea and Ray Lopez throwing their support behind his candidacy this week. “I know there are individuals trying to pit us against our own families, against our own neighbors, against what we know is true. They’re going to fail miserably come April 4,” Lopez said.
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