When the mayor strolled up to the lectern, she knew she wasn’t in real good standing with the local plumbers over her heavy handed and probably illegal vaccine mandate. The audience was expecting exactly the reception she got. Half the Chicago police force already told her where to stick her needles. She’s still afraid to carry out her threat to fire them. Go ahead, they dared. They have jobs already waiting for them in Indiana. Those that don’t decide to head for the hills and take up farming, that is.
Not expecting that
The freak of nature that calls itself Mayor of Chicago was not expecting to get booed and it was brutal. There’s some dispute over whether or not she actually got booed off stage but either way, the effect is the same.
The Plumbers Union Local 130 is not pleased with Lori Lightfoot. Her “vaccine mandate for municipal workers” isn’t going as planned.
A quick clip is going viral on social media, from Twitter to YouTube the cell phone footage declares that Lightfoot got a whole lot more than she was expecting on Sunday, October 24. As she was led on stage, “the Democratic mayor was loudly jeered.”
It was a shock to the authoritarian lesbian because Local 130 was “the Windy City’s first union to endorse her in the 2019 runoff election.”
“I knew that was going to happen,” an attendee at the debacle was recorded observing. Half the crowd was expecting exactly that.
It’s clear that for the length of the clip at least, the crowd drowned Lightfoot out. “That’s f–king brutal.” Another told the local press that Lightfoot “spoke for less than a minute” before the crowd’s ire was apparently too much for her.
Almost deafening
Even though police on the street have been defunded and threatened, Lightfoot and her wife have round the clock personal security. Her bodyguards started to get nervous at the look in the eyes of the plumbers who seriously outnumbered and out-massed them. They were expecting a fight to break out any moment.
There “was a resounding booing throughout the room,” one guest relates. “Almost deafening. I was sitting at the table with a bunch of plumbers. They’re like, ‘We’ve never heard that before here.’ Clearly, their membership is not with her.” She chuckled as she added they “were calling her names. It was bad.”
A union official was quick to hit the airwaves with damage control. He’s expecting a quick denial will sweep the whole debacle under the rug. Lightfoot, he maintains, was able to “finish her remarks.” They were just very brief remarks.
She even managed to get “a “cheer” at the end” as she walked away, “while acknowledging she had been booed by some.” They were cheering that she was leaving. “But it was nothing significant.” The important thing is “it didn’t disrupt the event at all.” Once she was gone everything was smooth sailing.
McCarthy blames non-union guests for starting the disturbance. Nobody is expecting a Democrat group of local plumbers to boo the mayor, so it must be outsiders. “We respect her and we have no problems with the mayor.” Only her vaccinate or hit the bricks mandate. Mayor Lightfoot’s personal spin doctor, Dave Mellet, insists she was “well received” and “pushed back on the characterization of his boss being booted by an unruly crowd.”
The union’s president “said he was downstairs counting money for a football pool when Lightfoot went on the stage.” He “didn’t hear nothin’,” union boss Jim Majerowicz told the Sun-Times. “I was in a different room, so I can’t say. You’re telling me some shocking stuff. I find it hard to believe.” Sports betting was recently decriminalized but Google still thinks running a football pool is illegal.
