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Paul Vallas demands Lightfoot explain email scandal, and use of government resources for political campaign
Mayoral candidate Paul Vallas on Thursday called on Mayor lightfoot to explain two growing public scandals in her administration.
The first is to explain the recent ethics breach involving her emails, and the other is to account for the use of taxpayer funded government resources for her political reelection campaign.
Vallas called for an immediate investigation of Mayor Lightfoot’s ethics violations.
Here are releases from candidate Vallas on both issues:
What Did Mayor Lightfoot Know About Ethics Breach, When Did She Know It, and What Will She Do About It?
With Mayor Lori Lightfoot’s school email scandal still coming into focus, mayoral candidate and former Chicago Public Schools CEO Paul Vallas is demanding answers to the many unanswered questions surrounding the Mayor’s unethical and potentially illegal actions. Vallas is calling on Mayor Lightfoot to publicly address the following issues in order to explain herself to Chicago voters:
Was Mayor Lightfoot aware that her campaign was pressuring teachers and students to support her campaign using their CPS email addresses, and that this is a clear violation of her own ethics policy and potentially illegal?
If Mayor Lightfoot was not aware of the scheme, will she take any disciplinary action against her campaign staffers for this blatant violation of the public trust?
How did Mayor Lightfoot’s campaign obtain the CPS teacher email list? Her campaign claims that the information was “publicly available,” but does that mean she manually built a database from available records, or was she given the full list?
Was there actually an agreement with the campaign and CPS to offer students class credit? If so, who at CPS authorized such a clear ethics violation? If there was not an agreement, did the Lightfoot campaign lie to students and teachers by claiming there would be an opportunity to earn school credit?
“While I believe that an independent joint investigation by the city and CPS Inspectors General is the best way to get to the bottom of this scandal, Chicago voters deserve to hear answers to these questions and more directly from Mayor Lightfoot herself right now,” said Vallas. “Public service is a public trust and we need to demand accountability and transparency from Mayor Lightfoot now to ensure that the integrity of our city government is not further compromised.”
Paul Vallas is an internationally renowned leader and expert administrator with a plan to tackle the issues Chicagoans care about most including getting crime under control; empowering parents to decide what education is best for their children (regardless of income or ZIP code), and putting Chicago back on solid financial footing by making sound investment decisions and budgeting sustainably.
Vallas calls for immediate joint City and CPS Inspector General investigation into Lightfoot’s use of Government resources and personnel for her political campaign
Mayoral candidate releases statement reacting to explosive report that Lightfoot pressured teachers and students to help her campaign
After an explosive news report today showing that Mayor Lori Lightfoot’s campaign may have violated city ethics policies and potentially broken the law by pressuring Chicago Public School teachers and students to help her campaign, mayoral candidate Paul Vallas is releasing the following statement:
“This is deeply troubling news out of the Lightfoot Campaign. The manipulation of teachers and children is unspeakable. Mayor Lightfoot should be ashamed of herself for allowing her campaign to violate her own ethics policy by contacting city government employees on their official email accounts for political purposes. Accountability demands an independent inquiry in the form of a joint City and CPS Inspector General investigation. Chicago residents deserve answers.”
Paul Vallas is an internationally renowned leader and expert administrator with a plan to tackle the issues Chicagoans care about most including getting crime under control; empowering parents to decide what education is best for their children (regardless of income or ZIP code), and putting Chicago back on solid financial footing by making sound investment decisions and budgeting sustainably.
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