Who Feels Safe in Chicago? – John Kass

And to all this comes Chris Kempczinski, the CEO of McDonald s Corp. who spoke at the Economic Club of Chicago luncheon and calmly delivered a series of body blows to Mayor Lightfoot s reelection campaign:

The issue? Crime and her inability to handle it. Crime is up almost 40 percent in Chicago, though murder numbers have dropped slightly. Kempeczinski told his audience that violent crime makes it difficult to attract employees to Chicago.

Everywhere I go, I m confronted by the same question. What s going on in Chicago? Kempczinski said. There is a general sense out there that our city is in crisis.

A spokesman for Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot had no immediate comment when contacted by the Wall Street Journal.

No immediate comment Lori? What? Are you ill? That s the Wall Street Journal calling, Madame Phallus Maximus. Business types read the Journal. For them to see Lightfoot in hiding invites negative judgement on her ability to handle the truth.

But most still in Chicago have already made that judgement about her. We made it years ago, when she turned the city over twice to Black Lives Matter rioters and looters, and then endorsed the Soros prosecutor, Kim Foxx for re-election as Cook County State s Attorney which was seen as an olive branch to BLM and other hard-left political actors.

After Lightfoot endorsed Foxx and Foxx was re-elected after the Jussie Smollett fiasco, after having gutted her office of hard minded prosecutors, I asked a longtime Democrat about it. He was a contemporary of the real original Mayor Daley, and I asked: By re-electing Foxx, what was the message the Cook County Democratic Party was sending?.

The message? he said. The message is get the (bleep) out.

via johnkassnews.com