A Chicago alderman slammed fellow Democratic Mayor Lori Lightfoot for harnessing left-wing alarm over the potential overturning of Roe v. Wade to “deflect” from her city’s crime crisis.
Alderman Raymond Lopez, who is running to unseat the mayor in the fall elections, told “The Ingraham Angle” on Tuesday that it is incredible to hear Lightfoot pledge to make Chicago an “oasis” for women seeking abortions, if the Supreme Court sides with the state of Mississippi in its current litigation.
Because the Windy City has been gripped by violence throughout her tenure, Lightfoot is hastily looking for a political out, he said.
“I don’t think she even realizes that she’s doing that badly, because I’ve never seen someone work so hard to be this disconnected from reality,” Lopez said.
“She’s been gaslighting people for two years. And what we’ve seen as of late is that now she’s turning to the national issue of a possible decision about abortion rights.”
Lopez claimed Lightfoot is employing a false premise, because abortion access is under legislative or judicial “attack” in the liberal Land of Lincoln.
“It is the law in Illinois. It is legal in Chicago,” he said. “But she wants to deflect to what’s going on at the federal level in the hopes that everyone will ignore her failures locally.”