“Let me just say up front, that’s completely false,” Lightfoot said. “There’s a rumor going around that I’m going to step down and take a deal, and I’ll name it, as some person in a Toni Preckwinkle administration. Let me be clear: That’s never happening. It was false the minute it was said, and what it shows, frankly, is the kind of machine-style bullying that has no place in the future of this city.”