(WBBM NEWSRADIO) — A lawsuit filed by a former Chicago Park District official accuses Mayor Lightfoot of blocking a deal that would have allowed a Christopher Columbus statue to be carried in a parade — and of using a torrent of salty language while shooting down the plan.
At issue was a plan by the Joint Civic Committee of Italian Americans to display the statue at last year's Columbus Day parade.
Former Park District Deputy General Counsel George Smyrniotis says the mayor defamed him and other staff on a Zoom conference as she shot down the idea at the eleventh hour, the Chicago Tribune reports.
Not only did Lightfoot question whether he even had a law license, his lawsuit says, she went on a tirade about her power to veto the arrangement, using an expression about male anatomy.
“My d— is bigger than yours and the Italians, I have the biggest d— in Chicago,” the mayor, who is female, is purported to have said.
The incident occurred as Chicago continued to wrestle with the fate of two Columbus statues that became flashpoints for social-justice activists in 2020.
The city ultimately had the statues removed, and the Italian-American organization has filed its own lawsuit.
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