Lightfoot Facing Criticism After Email to CPS Students Asking for ‘Externs' to ‘Help Mayor Lightfoot Win'
“Volunteer tasks include voter contact, attending events, and more. We are very flexible with student schedules,” the email said.
“This is the same Mayor who promised to clean up corruption and make good ethics an anchor in her administration,” CTU officials said. “Mayor Lightfoot has already failed our students — now she’s exploiting young people for political gain,” his campaign said. “She’s basically sending letters out asking teachers to ask students to support her election. I just think it’s the wrong thing to do. It just is.”
Later Wednesday evening, the campaign reversed course, saying, “Out of an abundance of caution, we will cease contact with CPS employees.” And yet another update went further: “All [Lightfoot campaign] staff have been reminded about the solid wall that must exist between campaign and official activities and that contacts with any city of Chicago or other sister agency employees, including CPS employees, even through publicly available sources, is off limits. Period.
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