Ex-Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot gets new gig as 'leadership' teacher and mentor at Harvard



One-term Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot has once again found her way into a leadership position, as Harvard recently announced that the politician will become a faculty member for the fall 2023 semester.

The 60-year-old Lightfoot recently lost a re-election bid for mayor of Chicago and became the first mayor to fail to secure a second term in the city in 40 years, according to the Daily Mail. However, the Harvard Chan School of Public Health was happy to announce on June 1, 2023, that Lightfoot will join its Division of Policy Translation and Leadership Development department to teach "Health Policy and Leadership."

The lawyer turned politician will take part in the Senior Leadership Fellows Program, which will have her mentoring "students who aspire to similar roles," as well as "collaborate with renowned academic colleagues, exploring important issues pertaining to strategic decision-making and leadership development in public health."

This isn't the ex-mayor's first foray into teaching, however. Lightfoot taught courses on trial advocacy at the University of Chicago as well as Northwestern.

"I've always loved teaching, and the opportunity to get back to it is something I am excited about," Lightfoot said on her Twitter page. "Looking forward to sharing the experiences and perceptions I learned governing through one of the most challenging times in American history with the @HarvardChanSPH community!" she added.

\u201cI've always loved teaching, and the opportunity to get back to it is something I am excited about. Looking forward to sharing the experiences and perceptions I learned governing through one of the most challenging times in American history with the @HarvardChanSPH community!\u201d
— Lori Lightfoot (@Lori Lightfoot) 1685626866

Dean Michelle Williams said Lightfoot was known for "strong leadership in advocating for health, equity, and dignity for every resident of Chicago." The dean also praised Lightfoot's "declaration of structural racism as a public health crisis" and her "innovative initiative to bring mental health services to libraries and shelters."

The school listed more praise of Lightfoot on its website, but was short on actual significant policies to boast about. "Lightfoot led a coordinated, citywide response across government, business, and community organizations to safeguard public health and minimize economic impact from the COVID-19 pandemic," her biography reads. "She created a Racial Equity Rapid Response Team and the COVID-19 Recovery Task Force," it continued.

The description also touted Lightfoot as "Chicago’s first Black woman and first openly gay mayor."

Senior leadership fellows generally teach a half-semester course at the school, the program says, and often address "a wide variety of leadership challenges in areas such as politics and public health, health equity, policy implementation, poverty and access to healthcare, community health, universal health coverage, and beyond."

Past fellows at the Harvard school have included former Mayor of New York City Bill de Blasio, former Governor of Vermont Peter Shumlin, and former Missouri Governor Jay Nixon.

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Lightfoot laments 'toxicity' in public discourse — just days after publicly shouting 'F*** Clarence Thomas'



Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot lamented the loss of "respect for the institutions of our democracy" and "toxicity in our public discourse" in the wake of Monday's mass shooting during a Fourth of July parade in Highland Park, Illinois. This is the same Lori Lightfoot who just last week publicly shouted "F*** Clarence Thomas," demonstrating a stunning lack of respect for a justice of the Supreme Court of the United States.

"What it feels like is happening in this moment in our democracy is people are losing respect for the institutions of our democracy," Lightfoot said during a news conference on Tuesday. "The toxicity in our public discourse is a thing I think we should all be concerned about," she added.

"We have got to focus on what brings us together and not what tears us apart, and we've got to get back to respect for each other and respect for community. And that's the thing, I think, that concerns me the most over the arc of the last two years," Lightfoot, who in May urged for a "call to arms," had the audacity to suggest.


\u201cLori Lightfoot says that increased shootings at uniformed officers in Chicago are due to people "losing respect for the institutions of our democracy" and "the toxicity in our public discourse."\u201d
— Townhall.com (@Townhall.com) 1657043299

Last week, however, the definitely-not-toxic Democrat publicly shouted "F*** Clarence Thomas," ripped into anyone who objected to her wanton lack of respect, and later doubled down with a tweet proudly captioned "I said what I said."

\u201cIf my language bothers you more than the destruction of our civil rights, then we don\u2019t need to know anything else about you. https://t.co/ThXb9NI2xU\u201d
— Lori Lightfoot (@Lori Lightfoot) 1656428253
\u201cI said what I said.\u201d
— Lori Lightfoot (@Lori Lightfoot) 1656378013

A tweet provided by Townhall.com put Lightfoot's hypocrisy on full display:

\u201cLori Lightfoot today: "The toxicity in our public discourse is a thing that I think we should all be concerned about."\n\nLori Lightfoot last week: "F*ck Clarence Thomas!"\u201d
— Townhall.com (@Townhall.com) 1657041294

Filling in for Glenn Beck on the radio program Wednesday, Pat Gray and Stu Burguiere called out Mayor Lightfoot's glaring hypocrisy and the left's misleading narrative on gun violence in America. Watch the video clip below. Can't watch? Download the podcast here.



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Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot tells LBGTQ community the 'Supreme Court is coming for us next,' urges 'call to arms' — and gets blasted for 'inciting violence'



Far-left Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot told her fellow LBGTQ community members that the "Supreme Court is coming for us next" and urged a "call to arms" in response to last week's leaked SCOTUS decision that would overturn Roe v. Wade, a ruling that legalized abortion in the United States in 1973.

What are the details?

Lightfoot made her feelings known Monday night on Twitter:

To my friends in the LGBTQ+ community\u2014the Supreme Court is coming for us next. This moment has to be a call to arms.
— Lori Lightfoot (@Lori Lightfoot) 1652147817

"To my friends in the LGBTQ+ community — the Supreme Court is coming for us next. This moment has to be a call to arms," the Democrat tweeted, before adding a post that reads: "We will not surrender our rights without a fight — a fight to victory!"

What was the reaction?

Besides the fact that Lightfoot's initial tweet was getting massively ratioed as of Tuesday morning — over 21,000 comments compared to just over 2,900 likes — a number of notable figures ripped Lightfoot for her words and said she's encouraging violence:

  • Republican U.S. Rep. Lauren Boebert of Colorado tweeted that "while people are being slain in [Lightfoot's] streets on a daily basis, all she can worry about is endangering more lives with her reckless words. Shame on her. She should resign."
  • Republican U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz of Texas simply tweeted a "#DemMobViolence" hashtag in response to Lightfoot's "call to arms" statement.
  • Republican U.S. Senate candidate and conservative commentator Kathy Barnette tweeted, "Shame on Lori Lightfoot! Issuing a 'call to arms' to millions is nothing short of a terroristic threat. For a woman with so much blood on her hands due to the gun violence she allows in Chicago, she’s going to cause even more death. Issuing terroristic threats is a crime!"
  • The research arm of the Republican National Committee wondered, "Is Democrat Lori Lightfoot calling for violence?"

Others used the left's infamous post-Jan. 6 rhetoric while ripping Lightfoot:

  • Conservative political commentator Rob Maness declared that Lightfoot's tweets are "words of a seditionist inciting violence against the Federal Judiciary branch of the government."
  • TheBlaze's Dave Rubin called Lightfoot a "crazy psycho insurrectionist" while TheBlaze's Jessica O'Donnell told the mayor "this sounds a lot like incitement."
  • "The same people who want to sentence grandmas to death for waving the American flag in the Capitol on 1/6 have no problem with Lori Lightfoot literally calling for violence over a problem that doesn’t exist," TheBlaze's Sara Gonzales tweeted. "They don’t actually care about any of it."
  • Conservative comedian Tim Young wrote that Lightfoot's posts are "worse than anything Democrats screech about Trump saying on January 6. Lightfoot is attempting to incite violence."

The hypocrisy of it all was too much for some:

This you?pic.twitter.com/QixZuQ87Lk
— Ultra MAGA queen Liz Willis (@Ultra MAGA queen Liz Willis) 1652150655
.@elonmusk: Imagine if a Republican tweeted this.
— #ThePersistence (@#ThePersistence) 1652160502
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