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mahatmakanejeeves

(60,949 posts) Mon Jan 23, 2023, 09:30 AM Jan 2023

Here's why Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot can't ask teachers to help her reelection campaign

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✅ Protects: the right of citizens to express themselves freely, especially when criticizing the government.

❌ Rejects: government officials who misuse their power to solicit support under implicit threats of retribution.

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Here’s why Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot can’t ask teachers to help her reelection campaign
Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot backtracked on an email sent by a campaign staffer to public school teachers last week asking them to

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Here's why Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot can't ask teachers to help her reelection campaign (Original Post) mahatmakanejeeves Jan 2023 OP

It was moronic exboyfil Jan 2023 #1

Frankly, she's pretty much toast anyway frazzled Jan 2023 #2

exboyfil

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1. It was moronic

Reply to mahatmakanejeeves (Original post)

Mon Jan 23, 2023, 10:56 AM

Jan 2023

Of course if your state has a $7,500 voucher for private school tuition, shouldn't the entities providing that education also refrain from partisan activity?

frazzled

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2. Frankly, she's pretty much toast anyway

Reply to mahatmakanejeeves (Original post)

Mon Jan 23, 2023, 05:06 PM

Jan 2023

The teachers’ union had much earlier endorsed another candidate before this (I’m not surprised) contretemps about wielding her weight to inveigle free student campaign workers.
But just about every sector in the city is mad at her about something.

I still don’t know who I’ll vote for. I’m not super hyped about anyone. But it won’t be a vote for Lightfoot. I just hope the vote won’t get so split that she’ll end up in the run-off. Right now she’s in fourth place according to latest polls.

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