Such a charming 'lady', isn't she?
[Zero Hedge] - Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot has been accused in a new lawsuit of throwing a temper tantrum over a plan to display a Christopher Columbus statue in the city's annual Columbus parade last fall - threatening to pull the permit for the entire parade and then berating city officials in a 'hastily called Zoom meeting.'
In a lawsuit against Lightfoot and the city, Former Chicago Park District deputy general counsel George Smyrniotis says he was tasked with hammering out a deal with lawyers for an Italian American group in order to try and settle a lawsuit over Lightfoot's removal of Columbus statues from the city. According to Timothy King, then the district’s top lawyer, and then-superintendent Michael Kelly, the lawsuit needed to disappear "as soon as possible."
Smyrniotis says that after hammering out the deal to display the Columbus statue in the annual parade (last, and covered up until the very end), Lightfoot flipped out.
During the contentious Zoom call with Park District Officials, Lighfoot "proceeded to berate and defame" the lawyers for the city - reportedly asking "Where did you go to law school? Did you even go to law school? Do you even have a law license?"
She then told them that they had to submit their pleadings to a city lawyer for approval, and were told "not to do a fucking thing with that statue without my approval," according to the Chicago Tribune.
"Get that fucking statue back before noon tomorrow or I am going to have you fired," Lightfoot said, per the complaint.
Smyrniotis then says Lightfoot made obscene comments to he and King - calling them "dicks," and asking "What the fuck were you thinking?"
"You make some kind of secret agreement with Italians. ... You are out there stroking your dick over the Columbus statue, I am trying to keep Chicago police officers from being shot and you are trying to get them shot," she allegedly said, adding "My dick is bigger than yours and the Italians, I have the biggest dick in Chicago."
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