Chicago Journalist William Kelly was channeling every Chicagoan who was forced to live under the tyranny of Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot when he ripped into the failed soon-to-be former mayor on Wednesday.
“You shut down our schools, you shut down the churches, you shut down the businesses,” said Kelly, referring to Lightfoot’s authoritarian and unscientific Covid edicts.
“You did the one thing that I thought could never happen,” he continued. “As someone who was born and raised on the south side of Chicago, I never thought in my life that I would ever see the city of Chicago brought down so low as you have managed to bring it down. Shame on you. That is a legacy that you are going to have to carry.”
Last year, Lightfoot personally revoked Kelly’s press credentials because he dared to ask her real questions. “I feel like this is more like a victim impact statement than an actual public comment,” said Kelly during the city council meeting. “What you’ve done to me is nothing compared to what you’ve done to my city, the city of Chicago, the city that I was born and raised in, the city that I love with all my heart.”
“I hope that after today’s city council meeting, you will pack your suitcase and get the hell out of my city,” said Kelly, adding, “You are a pandemic,” before walking away.
Kelly, of course, isn’t the only member of the press that Lightfoot targeted. In her attempt to avoid accountability,
