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🗓️ 27 March 2023
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0:47.1 | Greg, how is life as a Chicago political reporter right now? Is it a little scrambling? |
0:53.1 | What's a lot scrambling? But in the last couple of weeks I've gone from having nine badly behaved children running for mayor, |
1:00.7 | to having to babysit two slightly less badly behaving children for mayor. |
1:10.8 | Greg Pratt writes for the Chicago Tribune. |
1:15.0 | Why do you say badly behaved? |
1:16.9 | Well, you know, the like all political candidates, they spend a lot of time putting spaghetti on their head for attention |
1:23.1 | and throwing things across the room and yelling at one another and when they get mad, you know, it's not pretty. |
1:31.1 | The candidates, Greg, is keeping such a close eye on are Paul Vallis and Brandon Johnson, |
1:36.5 | who are in the final days of a hotly contested runoff election. |
1:40.5 | Back in February, these two unceremoniously defeated Lori Lightfoot, |
1:45.0 | who had been hoping for four more years as mayor. |
1:47.7 | voters in Chicago have sent a strong message choosing not to put Mayor Lori Lightfoot back in office for a second term, right? |
1:54.8 | It was a stunned room when when everyone saw Lightfoot take the stage because that concession speech came much faster than I think anyone was expecting even people. |
2:04.0 | It was the first time in 40 years that a sitting mayor had not been reelected in this town. |
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