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Chicago mayoral foes target one another's weaknesses as poll gives Paul Vallas a small lead [1]

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Date: 2023-03-13  

Vallas’ Twitter account, the local media reported just before the Feb. 28 nonpartisan primary, has a history of liking offensive tweets, including a message from that month arguing a senior police official was leaving because he “sees the writing on the wall, as a white male his ascension on CPD is limited. Identity over competency.” The page also did the same for several homophobic blasts against Mayor Lori Lightfoot, who is the city’s first lesbian leader.

Vallas’ team responded by saying that the candidate doesn’t manage his account, and that “[t]he campaign is working to identify who is responsible for liking these tweets as many volunteers have had access to the account in recent years, including some who are no longer with the campaign.” They issued a similar statement last week when the Chicago Tribune reported that Vallas’ Facebook page had also liked comments that called Chicago a “hell hole” and dubbed Democratic Gov. J.B. Pritzker “the king of full term abortion.”

Vallas’ ad, meanwhile, utilizes a clip of a reporter declaring that Johnson “said he would cut the Chicago police budget by at least $150 million.” The narrator goes on to declare, “Chicago can’t afford Brandon Johnson’s risky proposals to raise taxes and defund the police.” Johnson himself insisted Monday, “I never said ‘defund the police.’”

Vallas, meanwhile, earned an endorsement that same day from the International Union of Operating Engineers Local 150, which said it was sending his campaign $1 million. The labor group previously supported Rep. Chuy Garcia, who took fourth in the nonpartisan primary.

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