Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot Tells Anti-Choice Democratic Rep. Dan Lipinski He's Not Welcome In The Democratic Party
January 7th 2020
Lori Lightfood (Prachatai)
By Jeff Singer
Democratic Rep. Dan Lipinski recently signed on to a legal brief asking the U.S. Supreme Court to revisit Roe v. Wade "and, if appropriate, overrule[]" it, prompting Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot to call for the Illinois’ congressman’s political career to come to an end. “I support a big tent but there’s no room under the flaps for anyone who is actively seeking to deny women control over our bodies,” she wrote on Twitter. “Time to leave @danlipinski.”
Lightfoot made her comments Saturday in sharing a tweet from Daily Kos Elections that called attention to Lipinski’s involvement with the brief, which was signed by over 200 Republican members of Congress. While Lightfoot did not specifically endorse either of Lipinski’s March primary opponents, the tweet she amplified including a fundraising ask for the congressman’s top rival, businesswoman Marie Newman. Lightfoot’s political director explained the following day, “The mayor is still making decisions in the 2020 primary, but she felt compelled to speak out and defend the rights of women.”
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