Totaling the unsustainable tax increases and windfall revenue during Pritzker Administration – Wirepoints
May 26, 2026
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With $162 billion more from taxpayers, couldn’t you deliver a few bond upgrades, too
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A largely unasked question is becoming glaring: Is Illinois doing all it should to use artificial intelligence to make government cost less and work better? So far, the evidence says no.
ShotSpotter failed to deliver the required stuffed envelope to the right people so the contract was cancelled. Nothing in the city, the county or the state gets done without a kickback.
Based on recent sampling of TikTok videos posted by many residents identifying as people of Chicago’s west-side and south-side, it appears Trump has gained a number of working-class black and brown voters. Think Johnson somewhat recognizes that his dismal 14% approval rating also translates into this recent switcheroo in political allegiances, so feels no pain in stripping those neighborhoods of Shotspotter. Johnson is beholden to the progressive-Marxist wing of Democratic Party. But that leftist extremism is causing Democratic Party to lose much of its working-class male voter-base, at ever quickening pace. They probably don’t realize a number of working-class women… Read more »
Our working class south and west side residents are Trump supporters because of one and only one issue: Illegal Immigration. Blacks acutely feel the pinch of hordes of Venezuelans, and others, moving into their turf, and they are very angry about it. So much so that many of them are willing to overlook Republican’s positions on every other issue – abortion, welfare, reparations – just to get some relief from the masses of immigrants taking over their neighborhoods. One former gangbanger I was chatting with recently told me that tradition divisions and tensions between black street gangs are disappearing. As… Read more »
This article presumes that if shotspotter had been active it would have actually registered the gunshots- it is far from accurate or comprehensive in this regard.
And you know that how? Without the “ racist, divisive walkie talkie on a stick “ as the genius mayor described it, how can anyone say what it would or would not have done?
CPD reports it often arrived before ANY 911 calls occurred, its accuracy known for ability to spot-locate shell casings.