After filing, Mayot Lori Lightfoot told reporters she was eager to campaign in every Chicago neighborhood and remind voters “not only what we’ve done over the last three and a half years but what our vision for the next four is, and why only rational choice is to return me to office.”
Mayor Lori Lightfoot prepares to file more than 40,000 signatures to make her bid for a second term official on Monday, Nov. 28, 2022.
Lightfoot said she did not care where she was listed on the ballot, since any advantage would be most pronounced for little-known candidates.Mayoral candidates must submit at least 12,500 signatures from registered Chicago voters. Those who filed less than three times the required amount could find themselves in the crosshairs — and facing weeks of wrangling over hundreds — if not thousands — of signatures.
U.S. Rep. Jesús “Chuy” García and Ald. Roderick Sawyer are expected to file their petitions in the mayor’s race at the deadline. “What’s on the ballot is: do we return to the status quo that left huge swaths of our city, of our residents, out of the equation, out of the future of Chicago,” Lightfoot said, vowing to continue to address inequities that have long tormented Chicagoans if elected to a second term.
Lightfoot said she is ready to defend her handling of the COVID-19 pandemic, rooting out corruption at City Hall, fighting crime and boosting public investment on the South and West sides, calling it a “record of delivery that no one else in this race has.”launching her campaign in June
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