He didn’t have to lie to get us to care.
A carjacking is already a heartbreak enough. He didn’t have to lie about Daniel’s involvement.
Sam tells a heartbreaking story of his girlfriends’ carjacking.
Daniel knows the story. Daniel got an immediate call from the 14th police district, as he does for every single violent crime in the Ward. It’s one of the worst parts of the job of being an Alderman.
Instead of “doing nothing”—Daniel was actually texting with Sam within minutes. They discussed the scariness, police action, and immediate options.
It led to months of engagement together, meetings between Sam & his girlfriend, and even a chance to testify at city council about the violence none of us want in our neighborhoods. This is true, we have the receipts.
None of us wish a carjacking on anyone, and our hearts went out to Sam’s girlfriend.
Daniel already cared a great deal. He didn’t have to lie about Daniels’ involvement to get us to care.
Candidate Sam Royko
He didn’t have to lie about donations.
“More individual donors than any other candidate” is verifiably false.
Daniel has 124 donors just starting with the first 3 letters of the alphabet.
And that doesn’t include the many voter and community organizations that have donated to elect Daniel to a second term, citing Daniel’s values and transparency.
Why deceive? Because you need new donors to feel like they aren’t giving to a losing campaign.
We might chalk it up to not understanding campaign legal and finance. It can be tricky. But Sam is saying he’s a trained lawyer.
He didn’t have to violate campaign ethics laws.
Sam poses with uniformed Chicago police, even after a stern warning from the Chicago Board of Ethics.
Daniel is on a first name basis with law enforcement in both the 12th and 14th Districts, because public safety is part of the job of a sitting Alderman. He gets weekly security briefings. He’s led on new police details in Wicker Park, and on violence prevention initiatives which go after the root causes of crime.
But Daniel doesn’t take photo ops with police. It’s unethical.
He didn’t have to lie about his following.
Twitter caught Sam buying social media followers to inflate his perceived popularity
Is Sam’s popularity dropping dramatically? In February 2023 he has only 384 followers on Twitter. Back in September of 2022, he had over 2,000.
What happened?
Maybe some folks did stop following after they saw through some misleading claims. But the best explanation? Sam was paying for bots to follow his account to make him look a lot more popular than he was.
And Twitter policies finally found out and removed them all.
Follow Daniel La Spata on Twitter. Nobody is paying for bots over here.
https://twitter.com/DanielLaSpata
February 10, 2023—384 followers
September 10, 2022—”2,178 followers”