“If I’m Lori Lightfoot, I’m telling people that, ‘I’m a good government type and if you want change you vote for me.’ If you’re Preckwinkle, you’re saying, ‘I have the experience (in government), I know what to do, I’ve got the unions on my side and the party apparatus.’ The thing is, Preckwinkle doesn’t want to emphasize those party connections too much, or it connects her to Berrios or Lightfoot is going to paint her as some kind of insider political hack,” he said referring to embattled former Cook County Assessor Joe Berrios, who put family on his government payroll. “And Lightfoot has to be careful about promoting the outsider status because then Preckwinkle can paint her as someone with a problem understanding the breadth of issues and (lacking government) management experience.” Preckwinkle, too, has tried to brand Lightfoot, a one-time federal prosecutor, as a corporate insider who accumulated wealth working for one of the city’s largest law firms.