Mayor Lori Lightfoot enlisting CPS students not the most campaign ploy ever

Mayor Lori Lightfoot’s reelection campaign has promised to stop contacting Chicago Public Schools teachers soliciting volunteer work from their students in exchange for class credit. (Scott Olson/Getty file)

Oh, c’mon.

Everyone is so mean, beating up poor Lori Lightfoot for trying to pressure Chicago Public School children into joining her mayoral campaign. The same campaign that sent an email prodding CPS teachers to enlist their charges to spend 12 hours a week working for free for a Chicago mayor sunk to a nadir of unpopularity not seen since Levi Boone closed the city saloons on Sundays.