Mayor Lori Lightfoot has argued that “defining and challenging” her opponents is her obligation to voters. It doesn’t mean she’s dragging the mayoral campaign into the mud.
Whatever you call it, the strategy started this week when Lightfoot released a hard-hitting but somewhat humorous commercial tying the apparent frontrunner, U.S. Rep. Jesus “Chuy” Garcia, D-Ill., to a pair of indicted political powerhouses: onetime cryptocurrency billionaire Samuel Bankman-Fried and former Illinois House Speaker Michael Madigan.
