One day after Lightfoot used a parliamentary maneuver to preserve her 6-mph-over-the-limit ticketing threshold for Chicago speed cameras, Beale argued the mayor’s actions — the latest in a string of disputed mayoral rulings during City Council meetings — underscores the need to shift the balance of power away from the mayor.
“We need to have a true speaker of the city, where the speaker presides over the City Council and not the mayor. You don’t see the governor presiding over … the General Assembly,” Ald. Anthony Beale said.
“If you would rather pay for an empty store and an abandoned store for the next five years than invest in our community, you don’t deserve to be here,” Ald. Stephanie Coleman said. “And quite frankly, we don’t want you here.”
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