A Chicago reporter has reached his limit with Lori Lightfoot’s short temper and his taking the Democrat mayor to court for her “attack on the First Amendment.”
“I was asking the obvious questions, and she lost her temper,” journalist William Kelly told Fox News about a May exchange.
During the heated back-and-forth, Lightfoot told Kelly he was “full of crap.”
Kelly then had his press credentials revoked by the “woke” mayor’s staff.
“Mayor Lightfoot is in re-election mode, and she doesn’t want any more embarrassing questions to go viral,” Kelly said.
“So she revoked my media credential.
“This is a very serious constitutional crisis in the city of Chicago.
“She wants to win this case against me and then expand this attack on the First Amendment to all the reporters who ask her real questions or any reporter nationally who would dare to ask a real question of a powerful politician.
“Thankfully Elon Musk restored the First Amendment on Twitter,” he said.
“But in Chicago, the First Amendment is on life support, if not dead.
“They say you can’t fight city hall, but we need to fight city hall to restore the First Amendment if we’re going to have an honest election.”
While Mayor Lightfoot talks about mass shootings elsewhere in the country, this is what happens for the victims of gun violence in Chicago — a good, important story @RosemarySobol1 @JakeSheridan_ https://t.co/nTdRKJDQl5 https://t.co/GFnfmG88iN
— Gregory Pratt (@royalpratt) November 23, 2022
Kelly filed a federal lawsuit alleging Lightfoot and Chicago Police Department Superintendent David Brown claiming they violated his First and 14th Amendment rights.
He said earlier:
“The problem is that he sat down and wrote me a letter telling me that he was revoking my media credentials when the police department is down 1,500 officers, we have an out-of-control crime epidemic, police suicide is at an all-time high.
“He’s taking time out of his day to write me a letter telling me that he’s revoking my media credential.
“I think the priorities are completely out of whack,” he said.
Hat tip @chasejohn for sharp editing on this, legend has it I turned in my original copy in crayon https://t.co/a1d3LJmCXq
— Gregory Pratt (@royalpratt) November 21, 2022
Willie Wilson challenged Chuy Garcia to give up his congressional salary and “give it to the citizens” as he runs for mayor. https://t.co/VX9Y9tlBUI
— Gregory Pratt (@royalpratt) November 21, 2022
