Chicago Resident Launches Effort to Recall Mayor Brandon Johnson

Chicago Resident Launches Effort to Recall Mayor Brandon Johnson
Union organizer and Cook County Commissioner Brandon Johnson speaks after being projected winner as mayor in Chicago on April 4, 2023. Alex Wroblewski/Getty Images
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A Chicago resident cites a rampant crime wave and illegal immigration as just a few of his reasons for initiating an effort to recall Mayor Brandon Johnson.

“We have crime throughout all of our neighborhoods, but with armed thugs walking the streets,” Dan Boland, founder of the Recall This Fall initiative, told The Epoch Times. “Yet some of our aldermen are calling for a ceasefire in Gaza, but they’ve never called for a ceasefire in their own ward.”