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Mayor Lori Lightfoot and Ald. Jeanette Taylor (20th) just got into a heated discussion in the back of the Chicago City Council chambers. https://t.co/pC4XVNUXDX pic.twitter.com/8n0jCVBfhj
— Ashlee Rezin Garcia (@Ashlee_Rezin) June 23, 2021
*** UPDATE *** Mayor Lightfoot…
Our residents expect the City Council to pass critical legislation that impacts their daily lives. However, today, a small group of Aldermen brazenly created a spectacle and did a disservice to their constituents, instead of raising their concerns through the appropriate forum. As a result of their cynical actions, the City Council failed to pass protections and relief for our hotel workers, primarily Black and brown women, who were most impacted by the pandemic, and our small businesses. On Friday, we look forward to continuing our work on behalf of Chicagoans.
posted by Rich Miller
Wednesday, Jun 23, 21 @ 12:02 pm
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How to win friends and influence people, Lori style. Maybe if she just repeated herself ten times…
Comment by Southern Skeptic Wednesday, Jun 23, 21 @ 12:03 pm
Lori Lightfoot refuses to find allies and partners.
Now it’s moved into the actual conducting of city council business, “part 394”.
Comment by Oswego Willy Wednesday, Jun 23, 21 @ 12:06 pm
Screencaps from the new music video “NoNoNo You Talk to the Hand.”
Comment by Earnest Wednesday, Jun 23, 21 @ 12:09 pm
Mayor Lightfoot and all her friend take on Ald.Taylor
Comment by DuPage Saint Wednesday, Jun 23, 21 @ 12:14 pm
You ate the last cookie!
No that was you!
Comment by Pardon Joe Kotlarz Wednesday, Jun 23, 21 @ 12:15 pm
What Joe Girardi did was over the line!
Comment by The Captain Wednesday, Jun 23, 21 @ 12:22 pm
How to stand up to a bully 101 by Jeannette Taylor
Comment by Big Jer Wednesday, Jun 23, 21 @ 12:25 pm
JT: That cole slaw you brought was light on the dressing. How cheap can you be?
LL: Cheap? Wanna talk about those mini weenies you brought. You could have gotten jumbos from Portillo’s, but no……
Comment by zatoichi Wednesday, Jun 23, 21 @ 12:27 pm
Taylor: (annoyed) You’re a hoot, Mayor, you’re really funny. You’re really funny.
Lightfoot: What do you mean I’m funny?
Taylor: It’s funny, you know…. how you get all angry, it’s funny, you’re a funny Mayor.
(sighs)
Lightfoot: What do you mean, you mean the way I run council meetings? What?
Taylor: It’s just, you know. You’re just funny, it’s… funny, the way you try and run everything.
Lightfoot: (chamber becomes more quiet) Funny how? What’s funny about it? What did ya say? Funny how?
Taylor: Jus… (angry, can’t speak type of anger)
Lightfoot: What?
Taylor: Just… ya know… you’re funny
Lightfoot: You mean, let me understand this cause, ya know maybe it’s me, I’m a little confused, maybe, but …I’m funny how, I mean funny like I’m a clown, like when I dress up in costumes and have press conferences, I amuse you? I make you laugh, I’m here now running these council meetings amuse you? What do you mean funny, funny how? How am I funny?
Taylor: Just… you know, how there’s always a story, you’re always a victim… I dunno… you know…
Lightfoot: No, no, I don’t know, you said it. How do I know? You said I’m funny. How am I funny, what is so funny about me? Tell me, tell me what’s funny?
Taylor: Get out of here, go back to the podium.
Lightfoot: (Yelling) I almost had you beat, I almost had you. I wonder about you sometimes, you’ll fold, you can’t out angry me.
Comment by Oswego Willy Wednesday, Jun 23, 21 @ 12:29 pm
I think Mayor Lightfoot needs more office time.
Comment by hisgirlfriday Wednesday, Jun 23, 21 @ 12:35 pm
I support anyone who gives the Mayor a heavy dose of her own medicine.
Comment by AlfondoGonz Wednesday, Jun 23, 21 @ 12:38 pm
The mayor and city council member took a brief pause in their heated discussion to tell others to mind their own business.
Comment by Grandson of Man Wednesday, Jun 23, 21 @ 12:39 pm
T - I can’t believe you were eating pizza with a fork
L - I was brought up to not eat with my fingers
T - but is just not done. It’s un-American.
L - you eat pizza your way and I’ll eat it mine.
Comment by Huh? Wednesday, Jun 23, 21 @ 12:41 pm
Reminds me of Council Wars back in the Harold Washington days.
Where are the Two Eddies—Burke and Vrdolyak? Maybe headed to the Dirksen Federal Building for “Not guilty, Your Honor.”
Comment by Rudy’s teeth Wednesday, Jun 23, 21 @ 12:43 pm
T - I can’t believe you were eating pizza with a fork
L - It was a huge slice of Gino’s East deep dish pizza. I didn’t want to be wearing the sauce on my face.
T - Was it any good?
L - The best. Listen, after the council meeting, we’ll split a pizza with all the toppings. You’ll see why I used a fork.
Comment by Huh? Wednesday, Jun 23, 21 @ 12:53 pm
T - White Sox
L - Cubs
T - The Sox
L - I don’t care that the Sox are in first place. I bleed blue. Cubs.
Comment by Huh? Wednesday, Jun 23, 21 @ 1:00 pm
Council Wars II
Comment by EssentialStateEmployeeFromChatham Wednesday, Jun 23, 21 @ 1:01 pm
Maybe Jerry Springer should be invited to do a mediation session and offer some final thoughts at the end.
Comment by EssentialStateEmployeeFromChatham Wednesday, Jun 23, 21 @ 1:03 pm
What worked so well with the legislature will surely work well here…..
Comment by Fav Human Wednesday, Jun 23, 21 @ 1:06 pm
Jerry Springer’s Council Close: “You know, some people are just unhappy with life. And that includes themselves. You can’t change them, and it’s foolish to try. But when they are the mayor of a major American city, it’s on them to admit they don’t have a clue what they’re doing; the rest of us already know it. Until next session, take care of yourselves, and each other, because your Mayor won’t.”
Comment by thisjustinagain Wednesday, Jun 23, 21 @ 1:09 pm
“Talk to the hand”
Comment by Tommydanger Wednesday, Jun 23, 21 @ 1:24 pm
Perhaps both should mask up and social distance for a while.
Comment by Wensicia Wednesday, Jun 23, 21 @ 1:34 pm
Lori Lightfoot’s audition video for Dancing With The Stars
Comment by Dance Band on the Titanic Wednesday, Jun 23, 21 @ 1:36 pm
Miss Lori doesn’t play. Neither does Miss Jeanette.
Comment by Rudy’s teeth Wednesday, Jun 23, 21 @ 1:49 pm
Quoting the late Irv Kupsinet, “Engaging in the lively art of conversation.”
Comment by bogey golfer Wednesday, Jun 23, 21 @ 1:50 pm
Political Dancing Goes Visual
Comment by Amalia Wednesday, Jun 23, 21 @ 1:55 pm
The mayor in unhinged and needs to be more professional.
Comment by Disappointed Voter Wednesday, Jun 23, 21 @ 1:56 pm
Ald. Taylor keeping it classy with that finger in the face of the Mayor. /s. Never ceasing to be unimpressed at the professionalism and caliber of our elected officials today. We really need to do a better job as an electorate.
Comment by ;) Wednesday, Jun 23, 21 @ 1:59 pm
“There were multiple others who suffered severed fingers, broken bones, dislocated joints and severe lacerations at the drunken event”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9716847/Redneck-Rave-Kentucky-descends-chaos-48-people-charged.html?ito=social-twitter_dailymailus
Comment by Rich Miller Wednesday, Jun 23, 21 @ 2:13 pm
It’s not peaceful, but it’s one place in the Loop where people aren’t getting carjacked or having Divvy’s stolen from under them.
Comment by Quizzical Wednesday, Jun 23, 21 @ 2:18 pm
Ald. Taylor brings back memories of Aretha’s “You Better Think” song/dance routine in The Blues Brothers.
Comment by Streator Curmudgeon Wednesday, Jun 23, 21 @ 2:35 pm
In the link Rich shared … “one man had his throat slit *by a friend*…”
What a rally.
Comment by Morningstar Wednesday, Jun 23, 21 @ 2:45 pm
===In the link Rich shared===
“First responders were forced to leave the log in the man’s abdomen while they airlifted him to hospital.”
Comment by Rich Miller Wednesday, Jun 23, 21 @ 2:48 pm
I’ll take Taylor to end it in the 2nd.
Comment by Flying Elvis'-Utah Chapter Wednesday, Jun 23, 21 @ 2:48 pm
===…instead of raising their concerns through the appropriate forum
Would not the appropriate forum be the City Council for them to raise concerns about City Council legislation?
Lightfoot is just baffling.
Comment by ArchPundit Wednesday, Jun 23, 21 @ 3:12 pm
“instead of raising their concerns through the appropriate forum”
That forum being a phone call with the Mayor…not an email, which would be brazenly unprofessional, of course.
Comment by NIU Grad Wednesday, Jun 23, 21 @ 3:16 pm
===instead of raising their concerns through the appropriate forum.===
What a city council meeting, a stage play?
Don’t answer that.
Lightfoot has no clue… not one… to what it means to govern and govern within the levers… and forums.
Pitiful.
Comment by Oswego Willy Wednesday, Jun 23, 21 @ 3:20 pm
= ‘The first vehicle that came through, we found meth, marijuana, and an open alcohol container,’ Doyle said.
‘And then one of the occupants had two active warrants… ‘We were like ‘well, this doesn’t bode well for the weekend’.’ =
Understatement of the year.
Comment by JoanP Wednesday, Jun 23, 21 @ 3:22 pm
I wrote “Do I have to stand this close to get you to listen?” and cut and paste it several times as my caption suggestion, but it looks like the filter ate it.
Comment by Candy Dogood Wednesday, Jun 23, 21 @ 3:35 pm
Second City Rumble
Comment by Amalia Wednesday, Jun 23, 21 @ 3:35 pm
“I love your hair.”
“Why, thank you. I love yours as well”
“I do it myself.”
“I can tell”
Comment by Bruce( no not him) Wednesday, Jun 23, 21 @ 4:00 pm
It’s the Sears Tower, Comiskey Park and Lake Shore Drive. It’s the bean, not Cloud Gate. And it always will be to a majority of Chicagoans.
But go ahead and waste more time on this nonsense.
Comment by 47th Ward Wednesday, Jun 23, 21 @ 4:35 pm
To the update regarding Mayor Lightfoot…. The fact that there is injustice in the world, the country, the state, the city… doesn’t mean it is excusable to act like a complete @$$. You might want to work on the, mmm kay.
Comment by Ducky LaMoore Wednesday, Jun 23, 21 @ 4:53 pm
Clash of the Titans.
Comment by JS Mill Wednesday, Jun 23, 21 @ 9:39 pm
It’s not the choice of forum that upset Lightfoot. It’s the fact that anyone had the temerity to question her. It’s a democracy. If she can’t handle that, then she needs more than a refresher on Robert’s Rules.
Comment by Svengali Thursday, Jun 24, 21 @ 9:20 am