Fran Spielman interviews Lori Lightfoot about Toni Preckwinkle campaign staff controversy

Lightfoot comes out swinging hours after Preckwinkle fires her campaign manager.

By Sun-Times staff

Mayoral candidate Lori Lightfoot is interviewed by reporter Fran Spielman Friday, February 22, 2019. | Rich Hein/Sun-Times

Toni Preckwinkle was portrayed Friday as an elected official consumed with “maintaining political power” who “only seems to find her way to do the right thing when she’s caught and cornered.”

Lori Lightfoot came out swinging on The Fran Spielman Show hours after Preckwinkle fired campaign manager Scott Cisek for using a photograph of Nazis on trial at Nuremberg to attack Lightfoot.

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