Post by abbey1227 on Jun 16, 2021 12:55:39 GMT
Go your own way-ay-ay
www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/mayor-lori-lightfoot-has-a-message-for-president-donald-trump/ar-BB167ueM
6/29/20
Lightfoot said there are no easy solutions to the violence but she and others say development will make a difference and offer hope. Another health and retail facility will be going up in the North Lawndale community with $7 million in federal assistance.
Lightfoot pushed back against an argument that she should cooperate better with President Donald Trump in addressing gun violence in Chicago.
"This morning the Tribune editorial board urged me to be more collaborative with President Trump. And surely those well meaning people cannot be that naive. President Trump's attention to Chicago is transparently political," Lightfoot said Monday afternoon during a press conference announcing investment in Auburn Gresham and North Lawndale.
Lightfoot referenced a Chicago Tribune editorial from Sunday, "As Chicago's children die, Mayor Lightfoot and Trump spar rather than collaborate."
Lightfoot pushed back against an argument that she should cooperate better with President Donald Trump in addressing gun violence in Chicago.
"This morning the Tribune editorial board urged me to be more collaborative with President Trump. And surely those well meaning people cannot be that naive. President Trump's attention to Chicago is transparently political," Lightfoot said Monday afternoon during a press conference announcing investment in Auburn Gresham and North Lawndale.
Lightfoot referenced a Chicago Tribune editorial from Sunday, "As Chicago's children die, Mayor Lightfoot and Trump spar rather than collaborate."
6/15/21
'We need help,' says Chicago mayor after 4 killed in 2nd mass shooting in Chicago in 4 days
Lightfoot said officials at the White House reached out to her Tuesday morning to offer support.
"What we will likely learn as the details become clearer is that illegal guns continue to plague us," Lightfoot added. "Gun violence continues to have a deep and painful history in our city. Unfortunately, Chicago is not unique. We are part of a club of cities for which no one wants to belong, cities with mass shootings."
She pleaded for help from the federal government, saying, "This is a national problem."
"Cities individually cannot tackle this problem. We just cannot. In Chicago, we've done absolutely everything possible and we need help from the federal government," Lightfoot said. "When guns are so porous that they can come across our borders as we see every single day in Chicago, we know that we have to have a multi-jurisdictional, national solution to this horrible plague of gun violence."
The incident follows a mass shooting on Saturday in Chicago that left a woman dead and nine adults injured.
"What we will likely learn as the details become clearer is that illegal guns continue to plague us," Lightfoot added. "Gun violence continues to have a deep and painful history in our city. Unfortunately, Chicago is not unique. We are part of a club of cities for which no one wants to belong, cities with mass shootings."
She pleaded for help from the federal government, saying, "This is a national problem."
"Cities individually cannot tackle this problem. We just cannot. In Chicago, we've done absolutely everything possible and we need help from the federal government," Lightfoot said. "When guns are so porous that they can come across our borders as we see every single day in Chicago, we know that we have to have a multi-jurisdictional, national solution to this horrible plague of gun violence."
The incident follows a mass shooting on Saturday in Chicago that left a woman dead and nine adults injured.
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