Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot says that the state stay-at-home order may extend into June, drawing the attention of many, including radio show host and spokesman for America First PAC Steve Cortes, highlighted his opinion in an April 21 tweet.
He retweeted a Chicago tribune link reporting Lightfoot's expectations for the stay-at-home order and included a link from Real Clear Politics.
The tweet included the following comments:
"A lockdown into June for Chicago would send the city’s economy into a full-on depression."
"Lightfoot is a scold, a tyrant, and a complete hypocrite."
According to the Chicago Tribune article, Mayor Lightfoot told gave no indication when she expected the stay-at-home orders and other restrictions to be lifted.
In the April 8 Real Clear Politics piece, Cortes compared Lightfoot to Marie Antoinette.
“While 2020 America does not confer titles on aristocrats, many in our permanent political class operate with similar arrogance and tone-deafness. For example, Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot has garnered significant attention for her scolding sermons about social distancing, going so far as to close the expansive Chicago lakefront to any foot traffic, even to people wishing to run or walk alone,” wrote Cortes. “But on Sunday, the mayor felt that her hair needed trimming, so she summarily scheduled a private haircut. The stylist leaked the information online, posting pictures alongside the decidedly un-socially-distant mayor.”
He says that Lightfoot is more interested in using the crisis for a power flex, and that she only closed the lakefront because she could, not in the service of public health. He then points to her other actions, which he claims contradicts the reasons the waterfront closure and stay-at-home orders.
“In a similar authoritarian prerogative, the mayor did something no regular serf in Chicago can presently do, she got a haircut, and for one reason only: because she could,” said Cortes. “Her action, and her subsequent shameless defense of her high-handedness, spotlights an administrative state that operates according to its own rules. In the case of the mayor of Chicago, it’s 'social distancing for thee, but not for me.'”
He said that she tried to justify the haircut because she’s the public face of the city and that she takes personal hygiene seriously.
“To that latter point, what does hair length have to do with hygiene? Moreover, do the rest of us in the proletariat non-haircut masses somehow disregard 'hygiene?'” he wrote. “As for being the 'public face' of Chicago, many of the actual citizens of our city would prefer to see markedly less of Mayor Lightfoot since she exploits the present crisis for such abysmal policies as promising full government benefits during the emergency to illegal migrants who do not even belong in Chicago (or anywhere in America) in the first place.”
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