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To: Saulamanca who wrote (21130)	9/7/2019 1:48:56 PM
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One big reason Lori Lightfoot and Toni Preckwinkle are feuding: The broken bond system By John Kass Chicago Tribune \| Sep 06, 2019 \| 7:35 PM Why can’t Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot and Cook County Board President Toni Preckwinkle just get along and end their feud? It’s a question being asked by those who are, unfortunately, so tied to their political theory that they drive blind on The Intersectionality Highway. Both women are Democrats and liberal and African American. And I’m asked as I was on Friday by a nice liberal fellow: Shouldn’t they be able to walk into some sunny meadow, sit on the grass and just settle their differences? No. Reality doesn’t work that way. Reality has a habit of grabbing political theory by the throat. And there’s nothing more real for Mayor Lightfoot than dead bodies on the streets of Chicago, mothers and children screaming and residents fleeing her city. That’s what Lightfoot is dealing with. What is Preckwinkle dealing with? Her politics gone wrong. The conflict between them is rooted in Preckwinkle’s good intentions paving a road to hell: low bonds for alleged offenders, including some charged with gun crimes, and a broken home electronic monitoring system. The low bonds and EM programs pushed by Preckwinkle and her protege, Cook County State’s Attorney Kim Foxx, and, to some extent, by Cook County Chief Judge Tim Evans, have reduced the population of Cook County Jail, saving an estimated $160 million a year. Though such policy buys support from social justice warriors of the left, it offers no comfort to the victims of crime and their families, or to potential witnesses intimidated by the release of violent men. Continued