Thread by @_Eric_Reinhart

I accidentally left out the first part of my comment on why I support Brandon Johnson:
After George Floyd's murder at the hands of police and widespread demands to overhaul the nation's public safety systems, Cook County Commissioner Brandon Johnson introduced a resolution

https://twitter.com/_Eric_Reinhart/status/1622608875324071937

stating that county leaders “should engage in efforts to redirect funds from policing and incarceration to public services not administered by law enforcement.” He later said, "We’re spending $5 million a day policing alone, and that hasn’t solved any of our systemic problems."

Lori Lightfoot, by contrast, embraced the opposite stance, choosing to redirect hundreds of millions of dollars in federal Covid relief money meant for struggling Chicagoans to instead further enlarge the Chicago Police Department's already-bloated budget. As someone who works

as a psychiatrist in a downtown emergency department and sees the consequences of refusing to invest in supportive services for Chicago's most vulnerable residents, the contrast between these two candidates isn't theoretical for me; it's a matter of life and death every single

day. Brandon's policies are what my colleagues and I need behind us to keep our patients safe and alive; Lightfoot's, by contrast, and similar proposals by Vallas and Garcia to double down on failed policing systems make our jobs to protect vulnerable patients all but impossible.

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