When Mayor Lightfoot stormed across the council floor last week to confront Alderwoman Jeanette Taylor, we got a demonstration of a mayor breaking her promise—not that anyone asked for it.
The mayor’s council floor showdown with Taylor stems from the case of Anjanette Young, the woman whose west-side home was invaded one night in 2019, by a dozen or so police officers waving a no-knock warrant, as she stepped from the shower.
Then she said she couldn’t talk about it because it was a matter of litigation.
Watching Lightfoot in the days after her meeting with Young was like watching Scrooge throw open the window on Christmas morning, proclaiming he was a new and more compassionate human being.
Defer and publish is when two aldermen postpone action on a proposal for one meeting. It’s a legitimate practice that’s been happening more and more over the last few months.
But, until now, I’ve never seen a mayor take it to the floor, so to speak. That’s a new one—even for Chicago.
