{"id":1713324,"date":"2022-10-27T11:49:25","date_gmt":"2022-10-27T15:49:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1713324"},"modified":"2022-10-27T11:49:43","modified_gmt":"2022-10-27T15:49:43","slug":"lori-lightfoot-endorses-herself-getting-1st-pay-hike-for-chicago-mayor-in-16-years","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/lori-lightfoot-endorses-herself-getting-1st-pay-hike-for-chicago-mayor-in-16-years\/","title":{"rendered":"Lori Lightfoot Endorses Herself Getting 1st Pay Hike For Chicago Mayor In 16 Years"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">28<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Flori-lightfoot-endorses-herself-getting-1st-pay-hike-for-chicago-mayor-in-16-years%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1713324&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot, who during her tenure has had Chicago cops <a href=\"https:\/\/dailywire.com\/news\/chicago-cops-turn-backs-on-mayor-after-female-cop-killed\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">turn their backs<\/a> on her, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/lori-lightfoots-private-text-during-george-floyd-riots-the-city-is-up-for-grabs\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">texted<\/a> \u201cthis city is up for grabs\u201d when riots broke out after the death of George Floyd, and <a href=\"https:\/\/dailywire.com\/news\/i-have-the-biggest-d-in-chicago-chicago-mayor-lightfoot-accused-of-raging-against-officials-who-wanted-to-display-columbus-statue-report\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">boasted<\/a>, \u201cI have the biggest d*** in Chicago\u201d when she attacked a former Chicago Park District official who made a deal with an Italian American group to allow a Christopher Columbus statue to be used in a parade, has now decided she is worthy of a 5% raise in salary.<\/p>\n<p>Lightfoot said on Wednesday she endorsed a plan that would tie her salary, as well as those of \u00a0the mayor, city clerk and treasurer, to inflation. The pay raise would be capped at 5% and could take effect in 2024.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTo be clear, the ordinance that was introduced today would put the mayor, the city treasurer and the clerk in line with (aldermen) regarding a cost-of-living increase,\u201d Lightfoot <a href=\"https:\/\/www.chicagotribune.com\/politics\/ct-chicago-mayor-pay-city-salary-20221026-qb2nm4jh2jhczmx46b5viq47fi-story.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">stated<\/a>. \u201cIt\u2019s not a salary increase.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The mayor\u2019s salary has been the same since 2006.<\/p>\n<p>In September, Lightfoot protested that she had not \u201craised that issue\u201d of her salary, insisting, \u201cI think there\u2019s conversation around \u2026 some of the other citywide elected officials.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou\u2019re aware that the mayor\u2019s compensation hasn\u2019t been changed in, I think, almost 20 years. But that\u2019s not really what I\u2019m focused on. I\u2019m focused on making sure that we do the work of the people of the city every single day.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/article-11360051\/Chicago-Mayor-Lori-Lightfoot-proposes-pay-rise-despite-criticism-spiraling-crime-rate.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Violent crime<\/a> is up in Chicago 37% this year; over 2,300 shooting incidents have been reported.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot, who during her tenure has had Chicago cops turn their backs on her, texted \u201cthis city is up for grabs\u201d when riots broke out after the death of George Floyd, and boasted, \u201cI have the biggest d*** in Chicago\u201d when she attacked a former Chicago Park District official who made a &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1713327,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[541],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1713324","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-daily-wire"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1713324","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1713324"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1713324\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1713327"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1713324"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1713324"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1713324"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}