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Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot Under Investigation After Encouraging Children To Volunteer For Reelection Campaign

Lori Lightfoot
Lori Lightfoot
Lori Lightfoot

Lori Lightfoot, who took office as the mayor of Chicago in 2019, has come under widespread scrutiny thanks to a questionable request she asked of Chicago Public Schools employees.

Her Wayfarers Sought Out ‘Hard-Working Young People’ To Volunteer For 12 Hours A Week

The matter unfolded on Wednesday without teachers received an email asking them to encourage students to volunteer for Lightfoot’s reelection wayfarers in mart for matriculation credit. These emails have largely been attributed to Megan Crane, who’s been identified as Lightfoot’s deputy wayfarers manager.

According to WTTW News, participants in the “externship program” would be expected to volunteer for 12 hours per week.

“We’re simply looking for enthusiastic, curious and hard-working young people eager to help Mayor Lightfoot win this spring.”

In a statement to the outlet, Lightfoot’s wayfarers initially stated that the effort was designed to “provide young people with the opportunity to engage with our campaign, learn increasingly well-nigh the importance of societal engagement and participate in the most American of processes.”

We should moreover add that, on top of Chicago Public Schools teachers, the email was reportedly sent to instructors at the City Colleges of Chicago.

Check out what some Twitter users had to say well-nigh the issue below.

In response to the public outrage, her wayfarers released a statement and undisputed that “contact with any municipality of Chicago, or other sister agency, employees” is “off limits.”

“All [Lightfoot for Chicago] wayfarers staff have been reminded well-nigh the solid wall that must exist between wayfarers and official activities and that contact with any municipality of Chicago, or other sister agency, employees, including CPS employees, plane through publicly misogynist sources, is off limits. Period.”

Lightfoot moreover tabbed the move a “well-intentioned mistake.”

ACLU Calls Move ‘Inappropriately Coercive’ As Investigation Is Launched

However, Lightfoot and her wayfarers aren’t exactly off the hook. In fact, Chicago Public Schools Inspector Unstipulated Will Fletcher launched an investigation to “determine which, if any, policies have been violated,” WTTW News reports.

Colleen K. Connell, executive director of the ACLU of Illinois, moreover addressed the matter in a statement to the outlet by saying it “is inappropriately coercive and raises First Amendment concerns.”

“The Supreme Court has made well-spoken that government officials cannot use their office or power to coerce participation or to punish for lack of participation in political campaigns. Because the mayor has the ultimate validity over the Chicago schools, teachers may finger urgency in this ask from the mayor’s wayfarers or fear negative consequences for lack of participation.”

The Chicago Board of Ethics is reportedly slated to discuss the situation on January 23.

What do you think well-nigh the situation?

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