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Lightfoot tweets photo of herself reading ‘any damned book’ she chooses, runs right into chainsaw

May 16, 2022 | | Print Article

Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot seems to be willing to engage in any number of distractions as crime continues to rock the Windy City.

The latest antics from the left-wing Democrat was to tweet a photo of herself reading To Kill a Mockingbird while purportedly sitting in a Texas book store — the great irony here being the iconic book is banned in California — a blue state — out of concern that it was harmful to black students.

“In Texas, reading any damn book I choose. No banning of books or thought. Ever,” Lightfoot tweeted on Saturday.

Up for reelection, Lightfoot is in desperate need of a common enemy to galvanize voters, which may help explain her embrace of the culture war underway in America. Earlier in the week, the mayor issued a “call to arms” to the LGBTQ+ community, falsely claiming that the Supreme Court would be coming for them after overturning Roe v. Wade. She then spouted off that she was fighting the “MAGA crowd” for “women’s rights, LGBTQ+ rights, voting rights and every other freedom” — none of the strawman issues actually being threatened, of course.

But they project her as a “fighter” for the people.

At the same time, Chicago residents surely wish Lightfoot would spend some time fighting crime.

While she’s posting selfies in Texas, at least 33 people were shot, five fatally, in weekend violence across Chicago, according to police.

Among the victims were a 9-year-old child, who was killed, and a 6-year-old child sustained a graze wound in a shooting early Saturday morning, WGN reported.

A 16-year-old victim shot and killed Saturday night at Millennium Park prompted Lightfoot to impose a curfew for unaccompanied minors on weekends at the park, according to ABC7.

Talk about being out of touch with reality, the Democratic mayor declared that Chicago “cannot allow any of our public spaces to become platforms for danger,” decreeing that unaccompanied minors are banned from Millennium Park after 6 p.m. from Thursday through Sunday, unless they’re with “at least one responsible adult.”

Here’s a quick sampling of responses to the story from Twitter:

 

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