, calling them a “mistake” while downplaying them as an error in judgment by a staffer.
Later, the team released an amended statement saying it would stop out of an “abundance of caution” and later released another statement saying that all campaign staff members “have been reminded about the solid wall that must exist between campaign and official activities and that contacts with any city of Chicago, or other sister agency employees, including CPS employees, even through publicly available sources is off limits. Period.
Last August, Lightfoot’s campaign also contacted City Colleges of Chicago educators to recruit students. The City Colleges, which make up a city of Chicago sister agency controlled by the mayor, released a statement earlier this month saying it had told the Lightfoot campaign that they do not “coordinate with political campaigns.”
“The City Colleges said they purged them? I don’t know anything about that, and we have no written record of contact from City Colleges,” Lightfoot said. “What I said, and I think I addressed this last week, is the same issue: It was a mistake for the campaign worker to reach out to City Colleges just as it was a mistake to reach out to CPS.”
This is small potatoes. The Chicago Way is to get every city employee campaigning for the mayor.
If she gets re-elected I give up on this city
It's unethical. You don't need to look too deep to see that.
She obviously does not take the annual Ethics test like the rest of city employees.
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