Offices like that of the Chicago treasurer are largely administrative. The officials are elected, but their responsibilities don’t lend themselves to splashy policy initiatives. That doesn’t stop many of those officeholders, who often view the seats as steppingstones to higher office, from trying.

Melissa Conyears-Ervin, Chicago’s current treasurer, is running for the open congressional seat now held by Danny Davis after unsuccessfully challenging Davis in the 2024 election.

So on Wednesday when Conyears-Ervin announced during what was supposed to be a routine City Council budget hearing that she had ordered her office to “boycott” investing in securities issued by the U.S. Treasury as a protest against the administration of duly elected President Donald Trump, the bombshell pronouncem

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