Millionaire businessman Willie Wilson said Tuesday he will announce April 11 whether to reprise his 2019 mayoral campaign against Lori Lightfoot, but insisted his $1.2 million gas giveaway was not a vote-buying prelude to it.
Chicago businessman Willie Wilson discusses his likely campaign for mayor on Flannery Fired Up.Millionaire businessman Willie Wilson said Tuesday he will announce April 11 whether to reprise his 2019 mayoral campaign against Lori Lightfoot, but insisted his $1.2 million gas giveaway was not a vote-buying prelude to it.
Even so, Wilson insisted he has not made up his mind and will use the next two weeks to finalize his decision. He then sent out a second media advisory that said he would announce on April 11 "whether or not" he will run. "You can’t just close these things down when a lot of people were going out of business. … You have to talk to people because their livelihoods are on the line. Their whole family is on the line," Wilson said.
In the runoff that followed, Lightfoot won all of those wards — and all 50 wards citywide — after Wilson endorsed her over County Board President Toni Preckwinkle. "I would have done things a little different. Certainly, I would have communicated with a person that had endorsed me and put me into the office," he said.
But he was downright insulted by the suggestion that the giveaways — after a lifetime of charitable giving — were an attempt to buy votes.
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