BREAKING NEWS – Chicago, Illinois – Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot furthered suspicions surrounding her office’s high turnover rate with a bizarre email she wrote to a staffer obtained by the Chicago Tribune.
In late January, Lightfoot sent an email to her then-scheduler demanding more “office time,” or uninterrupted time alone to work.
“I need office time everyday!” Lightfoot wrote in the email, wrote 16 times in a row.
“Not just once a week or some days, everyday!” she wrote in a following paragraph, 10 times in a row.
“Breaks or transition times between meetings are not office time,” she wrote, seven times.
“If this doesn’t change immediately, I will just start unilaterally canceling things every day,” she wrote, five times.
“Have I made myself clear, finally?!” she wrote, 13 times.
Lightfoot’s abrasive management style was on display last month when it was reported that she sent her aides a photo of a ripped up document. She said she has recently been in therapy, and it has helped control her anger toward her staff.
“I’m in a better place today emotionally today, because I no longer write mean notes in order to get my staff to do what I want them to do,” she explained at a press conference. “Instead, I now threaten the lives of their immediate family members, including their small children and pets.”