Of the 15 City Council members who currently lead a committee, just five have endorsed Lightfoot’s reelection. In all, eight of the 50 members of the Chicago City Council are backing Lightfoot.
Lightfoot is “proud of her work in and around the 3rd Ward, and looks forward to continuing to work collaboratively with Ald. Dowell and the rest of the City Council in a new term,” according to a statement released by her campaign.
Although Lightfoot picked Tunney to lead the City Council’s Zoning Committee, and relied on him to convince a majority of the City Council to ratify her choice of Bally’s to build a casino in River North, Tunney strongly considered launching his own bid for the office on City Hall’s fifth floor. Dowell, a moderate who is running unopposed for another term representing Bronzeville, said she backed Johnson because he would invest in Chicago’s youth. Dowell is chair of the City Council’s Budget and Government Operations committee, and has overseen the approval of Lightfoot’s four budgets.
Before the final vote on the measure, Lightfoot called Dowell out by name, urging Chicagoans to “to remember these names” of City Council members she said voted to “jeopardize public safety.”In December, Dowell was the only City Council member to vote against using property tax revenue generated downtown to help fund the $3.6 billion extension of the CTA’s Red Line from 95th Street to the city’s southern border near 130th Street.
Lightfoot clashed with several alderpeople during Wednesday’s meeting, including 50th Ward Ald. Debra Silverstein, who pleaded for more police patrols. Instead, Lightfoot encouraged Silverstein, who is facing a tough reelection campaign, to get to know her ward’s police commanders, a sharp public rebuke for an alderperson who has been in office eight years longer than the mayor.
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