All’s fair in love, war … and campaigning. At least that’s what some political candidates think.
During her unsuccessful bid for reelection as mayor, Lori Lightfoot’s campaign tried to recruit Chicago Public Schools students for political work, dangling extra credit as a carrot. Her team also solicited city workers for campaign help, and as the Tribune reported last week, Lightfoot’s camp had been told to stop the electioneering nearly a year before her people reached out to CPS students.
The city’s Board of Ethics, which oversees City Hall’s adherence to ethics rules, warned Lightfoot’s team in March 2022 to stop sending electioneering emails to city workers at their workplace email addresses, and to cull those addresses from the mayor’s campaign email lists.
