Lightfoot fires back at Preckwinkle over crime letter

Using sarcasm followed by an argument fit for a prosecutor, Mayor Lori Lightfoot fired back at Toni Preckwinkle Thursday for the vanquished mayoral challenger's attempt to exonerate county bail reform as a "root cause for gun violence."

The sarcasm came when Lightfoot referred to what she called the "nice letter" she had received from Preckwinkle about the issue.

Clearly, the mayor believed otherwise and could not contain her anger about Preckwinkle's very public attempt to discredit the crime-fighting argument made by Police Superintendent Eddie Johnson and by the mayor as well.

"It's July - not March. The election's over and we had a result," Lightfoot said, referring to her 74 percent landslide over Preckwinkle in the April 2 runoff that saw Lightfoot sweep all 50 wards.

Lightfoot then returned to her roots as a federal prosecutor with a point-by-point rebuttal of Preckwinkle's argument.

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