Chicago Mayor Invites Ted Cruz For A Visit To City’s Worst Neighborhoods

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Posted September 9, 2019 7:00 pm by Comments

By Cam Edwards

AP Photo/M. Spencer Green

Between Alyssa Milano and Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot, U.S. Senator Ted Cruz’s dance card is getting awfully full these days.

After engaging in a Twitter fight last week with U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz, Mayor Lori Lightfoot has invited the Texas Republican to pay a visit to Chicago’s South and West sides.

Lightfoot said Monday she’d “love for him to walk the streets on the West Side and the South Side with me, if he really wants to do something to be helpful.”

“Helpful” in this case means “help me raise my media profile”, not “help make Chicago safer”. Unfortunately Mayor Lightfoot is doubling down on the idea that what will really make Chicago safer are unenforceable “universal background check” laws.

“I still am mystified given the horrible tragedies that have happened in Texas recently that he chose to make an attack on Chicago in the midst of all that. I would think he’s got his hands full with the challenges helping heal the communities that have been broken by these horrible gun tragedies in Texas,” Lightfoot said.

“But if he wants to talk about Chicago, come on, come here, we’ll welcome him and …Read the Rest

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