After a controversial email to Chicago Public Schools teachers urged them to ask students to help with her mayoral campaign, Mayor Lori Lightfoot says that the note was a “mistake” and that her campaign will cooperate fully with any ethics investigation moving forward.
“There’s been some commentary about whether the staff person should be fired. The easy political thing to do would be to do that, fire her, throw her body to the hungry hordes, but that’s not the right thing to do in this instance,” she said.
The emails were sent out to teachers with CPS and with Chicago City Colleges, seeking “enthusiastic, curious and hard-working young people eager to help Mayor Lightfoot win this spring.” Ald. Roderick Sawyer called the email a “hypocritical contradiction” of Lightfoot’s promises to combat corruption in city politics. State Rep. Kam Buckner was one of several candidates, in a group that also included former CPS CEO Paul Vallas, to call for an inspector general’s investigation into the email.
Lightfoot’s campaign argued Wednesday that other mayoral campaigns had also put together similar “externship” programs with students, calling them an important part of the political process.
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