CHICAGO FALLOUT:  The defeat for re-election of Chicago's monumentally incompetent Mayor Lori Lightfoot has sent shock waves through the Democratic Party.  I mean, she checks off three boxes – female, black, and lesbian – and got beaten anyway, winding up in third place.  How could this be?  It must be the racism and sexism of the voters, her mouthpieces say, the same ones who put her in office.  Uh, sorry, but no grown-up is buying that, including Mayor Eric Adams of New York, the most watched mayor in the country.  From Fox:

New York City Mayor Eric Adams said Sunday that fellow Democrat Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot’s election defeat last week should serve as a "warning sign for the country," rejecting criticism that he is feeding into the Republican narrative on crime in addressing public safety concerns in the Big Apple.

"Public safety is a prerequisite to prosperity. Same as Chicago, like New York, and many of our big cities across America," Adams said during an appearance on CNN’s "State of the Union."

"That is why we zero focus double-digit decrease in shootings, double-digit decrease in homicides, which we have witnessed this year, particularly the month of February," he added. "All of our index crimes are low, low for the entire year. We are focused on public safety because people want to be safe. They don't feel safe. And they actually say then you're going to lose control of your city."

Lightfoot became Chicago’s first mayor in 40 years to serve just one term.

Asked if he considered what happened to Lightfoot a warning sign for him in New York, Adams countered, "To the contrary, I think is a warning sign for the country."

"Eric Adams has been talking about public safety, not only on the campaign trail, but for the first year I showed up at crime scenes," the mayor added, referring to himself in the third person. "I knew what New York was saying, and I saw it all over the country. I think if anything, it is really stating that this is what I have been talking about. America, we have to be safe."

Adams responded to criticism from Rep. Mondaire Jones, D-N.Y., who argued the mayor was helping to feed the Republican narrative on crime and in turn, hurting Democrats ahead of 2024.

"You know the difference between a comment like that and what I say -- I listen to Americans in New York. The polls were clear. New Yorkers felt unsafe, and the numbers show that they were unsafe," Adams said. "Now, if we want to ignore what the everyday public stated, then that's up to them. I'm on the subways. I walk the streets. I speak to everyday, working-class people.

"And they were concerned about safety. We zeroed in on that unprecedented historic numbers of felony arrests, removal of guns on our streets, close in homicide cases. We have a recidivism problem in New York, and far too many people, about 2000 people who are repeatedly… catch, release, repeat in crimes. If we don't take them off our streets, they're going to continue to prey on innocent people."

COMMENT:  Good words from the mayor.  He's given us some good actions as well, but his hands are tied by an ultra-liberal city council and the refusal of his party in the state capitol to change laws that are putting thugs back on the streets. 

March 4, 2023