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Congressman Danny Davis Expected To Endorse Toni Preckwinkle For Chicago Mayor Tuesday

CHICAGO (CBS)--Two weeks from today, Chicagoans will elect a new mayor.

This morning, Congressman Danny Davis is expected to endorse Toni Preckwinkle.

Lori Lightfoot-Toni Preckwinkle
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This afternoon, Preckwinkle and Lori Lightfoot are both set to attend a mayoral forum at Malcolm X College.

Lightfoot's campaign for mayor is suddenly dealing with a clandestine effort to make her sexuality an issue.

While she accepted another round of labor endorsements, someone left hundreds of anti-gay flyers on the cars of worshippers, outside at least two black churches on Sunday.

Lightfoot would be Chicago's first openly-gay mayor, so she spent yesterday talking about it—instead of her newest endorsement.

"Any attmepts by anyone to propagate hate, we have to stand together as a city and denounce it because hate can have no place in our city," Lightfoot said.

Her opponent, Preckwinkle, won a new union endorsement of her own, from the Illinois Federation of Teachers.

And although the homophobic flyers could benefit her campaign, she criticized the tactic as well.

"Sure, I condemn them," Preckwinkle said. "They have nothing to do with our campaign. They're disgraceful. I have no idea where it came from and as I said, it's despicable."

 

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