Thursday night's televised debate marked the first opportunity for all nine mayoral candidates to explain their positions to Chicago voters and draw contrasts with one another.
Nine Chicago mayoral candidates get ready to begin their debate Thursday at ABC-7 TV studio in Chicago.
“I think I just heard Paul Vallas say that we should not call out racist, xenophobic practices of governors like Greg Abbott, who are treating migrants like freight. Well, that may be your idea of a welcoming city, it’s not my idea,” Lightfoot shot back, adding that she was continuing to push the federal government to issue asylum seekers work permits “so these people can take care of themselves and live independently.
On crime, businessman Willie Wilson reiterated his criticism that there are too many restrictions on Chicago police officers and said people who run from cops should be “hunted down like rabbits.”While other candidates focused on fully funding the police department, Johnson drew the sharpest contrast, saying they were too focused on the same old tough-on-crime approach.
“When Paul Vallas was in charge of public schools, he further stratified our public schools, leaving our schools without the necessary support they need,” Johnson said. King spoke of her love of the city but said it’s at a “pivotal point” and claimed Lightfoot only represents “segregated parts of it.” King repeated that leaders “have to stop these false narratives that separate us,” like that Chicagoans can’t have both safety and justice.
Buckner, however, likened the K-9 units on the CTA to segregationist “George Wallace’s Alabama” in the 1960s. Saying “the CTA is broken and we have to find a way to fix it,” Buckner promised “no more ghost buses” or “ghost CTA presidents,” a reference to Carter declining to appear multiple times in front of the Chicago City Council.
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