If you’ve been in Illinois long enough to go through a school district tax hike referendum, you’ll understand what’s going on right now as state lawmakers prepare to vote on the 2025 state budget.
Ted joined Shaun Thompson to talk about about the Chicago Teachers Union’s absurd new contract demands, why so many Chicago teachers are chronically absent, and Brandon Johnson’s failed first year as mayor.
What a representation of Chicago’s plight.
The bill passed despite their votes in response to certain incidents where local prosecutors are thought to have been too lenient with non-citizens assaulting cops.
The Wall Street Journal Editorial Board cited Wirepoints’ analysis of Chicago student proficiency data in their latest piece condemning the Chicago Teachers Union’s outrageous contract demands…all while a vast majority of Chicago’s children graduate unable to read at grade level.
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“Illinois Just Rigged Its 2024 Election… ‘Democracy’”
Why conservative politicians aren’t out beating this drum every single day is beyond me. Missed opportunity.
There are multiple ways to look at this. Two immediately come to my mind though. One is that the journalists’ are afraid that, by raising objections, Pritzker’s promises of funding news outlets might be put in jeopardy and the other is that the journalists’ might just assume that Illinois is hopeless. Let us not forget the dismal voter turnouts in recent Illinois elections that indicate Illinoisans themselves either don’t care or instead feel the state is hopeless.
It’s a one-party state so there’s really no need to vote. That’s why people don’t show up to vote.
It’s also why Democrats lately have had low turnout. But low turnout is a double-edged sword, because low turnout usually means low Democrat voter turnout.
This sometimes favor Republicans. This new law is designed to reduce the opportunity for Republicans to capitalize on low voter turnout and maybe squeak out a win in a southern Illinois district, and maybe elsewhere too.
I thought there was a difference between “climate” issues and “environmental” issues. So clean water is now a climate issue”? I guess with these fools it is.