The Vallas leadership style.
I was constantly annoyed by a constant characterization of of Chicago’s Mayor Lori Lightfoot.
You know the one.
That she didn’t play well with others.
And it was true. Lightfoot didn’t get along with the Eddie Burkes and other grifters in city government.
It’s one of the reasons I liked her.
As Chicago’s first African American lesbian mayor I believed there was a double standard at play.
The white male Chicago mayors were never held to the same standard.
I still can recall Rahm Emanuel telling Karen Lewis, then head of the Chicago Teachers Union, “fuck you!”
And now some believe Paul Vallas, if elected, will bring peace and tranquility to politics in Chicago?
Wrong Paul Vallas.
Check out Paul Vallas when parents in New Orleans dared to raise concerns about the transformation of their city’s public school system into the nations first charter system.
Oh, boy.
This man makes Rahm Emanuel look like Miss Manners. I cannot believe we're going to be saddled with this. Not really looking forward to the sheer amount of marching in the streets that's going to be required.
When Lori Leightfoot was running for her first term, I voted against her. The reason was political. She had come in under Daley, and remained under Emanuel, being given increasingly responsible positions.
Rahm was neo liberal in his political outlook. That was his basic stance. So I would have voted against any member of his team.
I simply didn't share any political outlook with the neo liberals. It didn't matter if the candidate was black or white, straight or gay.
Ideology was far more important, because ideology, so I thought, dictated how an individual would govern and what the goals were to be.
I simply hadn't reckoned with the power if incompetence. I hadn't imagined she would have been that inept.