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CHIRAQ Chronicles: Chicago has a Deadly Memorial Day Weekend
Memorial Day weekend proved to be rather violent for the city of Chicago.
According to ZeroHedge, Chicago police responded to 42 people being shot, while seven of them died due to gunshot wounds.
Homicide data compiled by the Chicago Tribune indicates that this violence was slightly above average for 2019.
Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot stated that the uptick in crime during the past weekend “is just an unacceptable state of affairs.”
She added “I certainly knew that before, but to see it graphically depicted is quite shocking and says that we’ve got a long way to go as a city. This is not a law enforcement-only challenge. It’s a challenge for all of us in city government. It’s a challenge for us in communities to dig down deeper and ask ourselves what we can do to step up to stem the violence.”
The Chicago Mayor made it clear that gun violence is not a form of conflict resolution. “For those who think it is, we can give them no quarter, they can have no sanctuary in our city. We’ve got to make sure we flood these areas with a lot more resources.”
Police Superintendent Eddie Johnson announced that a new program to put the clamps on illegal gun trafficking had been enacted.
Despite having some of the toughest gun control laws in the nation, Chicago remains one of the most violent urban centers in America.
The special election for Texas’ Senate District 30 is on pace to be one of the most heated races in the Lone Star State.
At a candidate forum on September 18, 2020, Shelley Luther, the Dallas salon owner who was jailed for opening her business in defiance of Governor Greg Abbott’s shutdown order, confronted outgoing State Senator Pat Fallon.
Fallon vacated his seat and is now backing a successor in State Representative Drew Springer.
“We don’t want somebody who’s going to be at odds with our Republican governor,” Fallon said September 18 at the Grayson County Republican Women’s Club.
Fallon added:
I didn’t support some of the things that he has done about opening up. … So, he’s made some mistakes. He’s our Republican governor, the 80/20 rule … because you’re not going to get any bills passed unless the governor signs them.
“Let me make something clear. I am accountable to my fellow citizens in Senate District 30. Not our Governor,” Luther responded on September 19 on Facebook:
This is exactly what is wrong with Austin. Our politicians are more loyal to Abbott than us, even when they disagree with him.
I will work with Governor Abbott when he is fighting to protect the liberty of Texans, and I will oppose him when he pushes unilateral dictates that shut down our local businesses.
Fallon and Luther had a tense exchange, which was caught on video.
“You want me to go all in on this race?” Fallon questioned Luther. “I have been 5 percent in on this race. You want me to go all in on it, I’m welcome to.”
“This has become a straight-up fight between Abbott and the ‘Kumbaya’ Professional Political Class vs. the grassroots and people who remember what limited government and principles should look like,” opined conservative activist Mike Openshaw.
“Respectfully, being willing to be jailed for fighting over-reaching government shows principle; that counts for something, Patrick,” Openshaw continued.
Luther has recently received endorsements from conservative Collin County Judge Chris Hill and Young Conservatives of Texas. Springer, on the other hand, received an endorsement from the Fort Worth Star-Telegram, which asserted that Luther was going down a “far right” path.
A Republican is expected to carry the senate district, which may still require a runoff if the leading candidate does not get enough votes during the first round of the special election.
Election Day will be on September 29.
Luther is viewed as the truly conservative option and many believe she could help break the political status quo in Austin that has kept conservative legislation from ever being passed.
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