Brandon Johnson is Chicago's new progressive mayor

Chicago has elected Brandon Johnson another leftist to fill in as Mayor of the city replacing the execrable Lori Lightfoot, who came in a miserable third in the Democrat runoff.

"I may be a millionaire, but at least I'm not a billionaire!"

Johnson is endorsed by fellow communist Bernie Sanders which should tell you a bit as to how Johnson will run the joint after he defeated his moderate opponent, Paul Vallas, the former Chicago Public Schools CEO. Vallas had the support of the city's police union and major business groups, while Johnson that the backing of the Chicago Teachers Union.

Lightfoot, who was one of the most incompetent people in power, became the first Chicago mayor in four decades to lose a re-election bid.

One of the deciding reasons Lightfoot is gone has to do with the crime climbing through the proverbial roof during her mishandling of it and her call for defunding the police while people were being killed in the city.

The now-former mayor came in third in the general election, losing to Johnson by five points, while Vallas took the plurality of votes and lost in the final election.

Lightfoot broke the glass ceiling in Chicago as homicides in 2021 hit a 25-year-high as it soared to 797, as reported by the Chicago PD. She was also the first black lesbian mayor thereby proving that ability trumps identity every time.

Now Chicagoans will find out whether things improve in their town. If not, the smart ones will leave because while Jussie Smollett believes Chicago is "MAGA country," it's a one-party city and it isn't the Republican Party at all.

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Lori Lightfoot light on the votes she need: 1st Chicago mayor to lose re-election in 40 years

Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot (D) lost her re-election bid on Monday and now the city of Chicago has the possible chance of lowering its crime rate, as she was as useless as crutches for a gimpy goldfish when it came to that issue. 

Under the openly gay, Black mayor, the crime rate continues to soar like a rocket, and I think it's going to be a long, long time before it touches down, but at least now there is a distinct chance that it will. However, in 2021, the homicides in the Windy City rose to their highest level in 25 years and blew away cities like Los Angeles and New York.

Paul Vallas

Perhaps the biggest problem for the city was Lightfoot's overt criticism with police, which led to a hemorrhaging of officers leaving the force. Of course, crime rose to new heights and Lightfoot was impotent to assuage the problem.

Anyway, Lightfoot squared off against 8 other challengers in the mayoral race and she failed to make it to the runoff as she finished in third place. 

The finale saw Paul Vallas, the city's Public School CEO and city budget director, and Cook County Board of Commissioners Brandon Johnson as the two top contenders and they will face off on April 4th while Lightfoot complains about racism, in spite of losing to Brandon Johnson who is Black and Vallas who is an American of Greek descent. 

Brandon Johnson

Due to the number of candidates in the race for the Democratic nomination, none reached the 50% level that would have taken them over the hump and eliminated the field.

The internet was delighted to see the Black lesbian leave office in the near future. The birds of Twitter went into a tweeting frenzy with Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) tweeting: "Lori Lightfoot. Crime doesn't pay."

Gianno Caldwell, a FOX News political analyst whose brother was murdered in Chicago last summer under Lightfoot's watch wrote that the Lori Lightfoot "experiment" is "officially over. Thank you, CHICAGO."

"There is hope for my home city yet," legal expert and FOX News Jonathan Turley posted. "Lori Lightfoot is out. The greatest potential improvement for the city since 1900 when the direction of the Chicago river was reversed."

Former Presidential Press Secretary and FOX News cohost of "Outnumbered," Kayleigh McEnany, tweeted about what she said of Lightfoot in 2020, calling her the "derelict mayor of Chicago" regarding her mishandling of crime in the city. McEnany suggested that Lightfoot seek federal assistance to help cope with the wave of crime, to which Lightfoot arrogantly replied: "Hey Karen. Watch your mouth."

"Lori Lightfoot lost her election," McEnany tweeted on Monday. "Perhaps she should have woken up when I referred to her as the "derelict mayor of Chicago" from the White House podium for ignoring victims of crime in her city! Instead, she said "Hey, Karen. Watch your mouth"

"Karen here, you lost," McEnany said of Lightfoot's defeat.

Hey Lightfoot. Mind the door.

Maybe Democrats have finally learned their lesson and one of them is likely to win the nonpartisan mayoral election runoff on April 4th. 

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