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If this bill passes, say goodbye to local control over all Illinois parks and expect to see open drug and alcohol use, needles, no sanitation and fire hazards, but no ordinary park users.
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Chicago’s political leadership is floating a pension buyout program as evidence it is seriously addressing the city’s thirty-six-billion-dollar unfunded pension liability, but Mark Glennon, founder of the Illinois policy research organization Wirepoints, said that the proposal moves debt from one column to another rather than reducing it, and that the broader fiscal picture facing the city continues to deteriorate across every measurable dimension. Audio here.
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Richard has been a voice of reason for the better part of the last year. I think he will get the country club crowd, but I think he can also appeal to blue collar voters. If you were at a cocktail party, you’d want to hang and laugh with Richard. Pritzker only has pals because of his checkbook, not his magnetic personality.
To beat JB (he’s keeping us safe!) Prickster, a winning candidate will need a strong personality, a clean background, and the willingness to relentlessly attack, attack, attack. Basically Jeanne Ives on steroids. I don’t see that person yet. The days of the country club republicans like Kirk and Rauner winning are over.
As big a flop as rauner turned out to be, he won because he put together a coalition of country club (porter) Republicans, Jeanne ives Republicans and independents ( many liberals) to defeat the machine. Plus he had a ton of money. The machine couldn’t be happier nationally or statewide to see a split Republican party. Gives them more time to concentrate on swiftboating non machine progressives like lightfoot. I like what porter has to say in this interview…wish he stood a chance
“he won because he put together a coalition of country club (porter) Republicans, Jeanne ives Republicans and independents ( many liberals) to defeat the machine.” Partially true. Remember, Rauner’s Republican Party lost only 100,000 votes statewide in 2018 to 2014. JB’s Democrat party *gained* 800,000 voters in 2018 over Quinn only four years before. JB won in 2018 because either 1) Orange Man Bad crowd showed up in droves; or 2) Fraud. Personally, I think it’s both. Democrats were really emboldened to vote out Republicans across the country in 2018. But also, I never used to think fraud ever, really,… Read more »
Yes, it is the statistical anomalies that make me think “fraud”. But of course it can never be proven. That is the beauty of their plan. And I am a crazy person/insurrectionist for even thinking it.
The Tribune article from Nov 2018, where i got the 800,000+ votes that JB received that Quinn did not was written in kind of a tone of disbelief too. The author almost didn’t it and said something like 800,000 more people voted in 2018 over 2014 and nearly everyone of them voted for JB the Obese Billionaire. Maybe it was a great GOTV effort. Maybe it was fraud. Maybe it was both. JB is an unethical dude – we all heard those recordings of him on the phone with Blago trying to get himself an appointment. Wouldn’t surprise me one… Read more »
Extraordinary growth in devotion to civic duty! Exactly what comes to mind when thinking of politics in Cook County…
There’s no link to articale??
It should be fixed now: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H6dqFFMggJU&feature=youtu.be