Mayor Brandon Johnson is making more prime space for his progressive base with a new hire. Johnson created a new role to bring community organizer Kennedy Bartley into his administration. Starting …
Kennedy Bartley, of United Working Families, speaks at Little Village Lawndale High School in Little Village as part of a tour promoting Green New Deal legislation on Nov. 18, 2023. Johnson created a new role to bring community organizer Kennedy Bartley into his administration. Starting Tuesday, Bartley will serve as managing deputy of external relations, tasked with working more closely with the unions, activist organizations and neighborhood groups that helped make Johnson mayor.
The move will help Johnson’s team “make sure that we are executing the vision Chicago elected him to execute,” Bartley told the Tribune Friday. Bartley will be doing work similar to what she already does at UWF, where she helped rally groups behind Johnson’s election and major policies like the Bring Chicago Home referendum that sought to create new city revenue earmarked for homelessness by raising real estate transfer taxes,
Bartley will also help the administration wrangle City Council votes, which has at times proven challenging for the administration during its first year,The appointment speaks to the difficulty Johnson faces keeping his base happy now that they expect him to deliver on the ambitious progressive goals he laid out while campaigning for mayor.
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