5/4/22
I sent this letter to the Chicago Sun-Times editor two
days ago. Since the Sun-Times published
a letter on the very next day responding to the same Laura Washington column,
it is highly unlikely that the Sun-Times will publish mine, so, rather than delay,
I decided to share my note immediately rather than delay as I did with my last
letter to the Sun-Times:
5/2/22
I agree with Laura Washington that you can’t beat
somebody with nobody (“Critics Want Lightfoot gone, but you can’t beat somebody
with nobody,” Opinion, 5/2/22), but neither of Mayor Lightfoot’s two declared
opponents, Willie Wilson and Ray Lopez, is a nobody. Mr. Wilson ran an impressive campaign in
2019, carrying thirteen wards in the first round of voting, more than any other
candidate, and his appeal is increasing due to his gas giveaways and hard line
on crime. Mr. Lopez is a bulldog of an
alderman who has seized on the crime issue by personally confronting gangbangers
and thugs in his ward. Both men, one
Black and one Hispanic and gay, have a degree of appeal to those who insist on casting
their votes based on such characteristics.
It is far too early to declare that Mayor Lightfoot will
be a one-term mayor, but it is foolish and insulting to declare either of her
two so-far declared opponents to be “nobody.”
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