The new fund can't coordinate with Lightfoot but is raising money for her reelection bid largely outside limits imposed on direct donors.
Mayoral candidate Willie Wilson, right, files his stack of petition signatures at the Chicago Board of Elections Loop Super Site on Nov. 21, 2022.
Chicago businessman Willie Wilson ripped Mayor Lori Lightfoot over a committee created by her allies that is unbound by how much money contributors can give or who they are — restrictions Lightfoot“It’s wrong. You’re not really running the city for the people; you’re running this city for a few select individuals that have the money, to ... buy their way and control the other million or 2 million people in Chicago,” Wilson said at a Wednesday morning news conference. “It is plain wrong.
In addition, the committee’s chair is Sean Harden, who also chairs the nonprofit Friend Health, which recently opened a health center in Woodlawn that’sThe new committee follows in the footsteps of Lightfoot’s predecessor, former Mayor Rahm Emanuel, whose allies established a massive campaign fund that raised more than $5 million in one year to help Emanuel win a second term.
At his news conference, Wilson said he would create an ethics office to deal with potential conflicts of interest but it wasn’t clear how it would work. The 77 Committee is a perfectly legal workaround of local laws around campaign contributions. Dave Mellet, executive director of the committee, declined comment. A Lightfoot spokeswoman did not immediately have comment.
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