Ted joined Dan and Amy to discuss Illinois’ abysmal results on the Nation’s Report Card, why it’s so wrong for Illinois officials to sugarcoat those test outcomes, the continued decline in Mayor Johnson’s popularity and power, the growing likelihood of a doom loop occurring in downtown Chicago, and more.
Read more from Wirepoints:
- No matter what Pritzker or the Tribune says, Illinois’ NAEP education results are abysmal
- Nation’s Report Card results are in: Illinoisans spend billions more on education, yet 2024 reading results are still below 2019 levels
- Lawsuit filed by Mark Glennon against City of Chicago, Mayor Johnson and Bally’s alleges blatant discrimination
- Illinois taxpayers deserve answers before state pension costs rise – Wirepoints in the Chicago Sun-Times
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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.
Who elects a buffoon like this?
Former mayor Lightfoot said if Brandon Johnson wins the mayoral election she will not gone down as the worst mayor in Chicago’s history, guess she was correct.
Every successive mayor seems to have a lower IQ than the one preceding them. Same for the governors office. Who would want to take a job that sits in quicksand?
” the city reporting 47,835 fewer licensed businesses than in 2005.”
This statistic clearly shows that the city of Chicago is headed towards bankruptcy…undoubtably.
Mayor Jhonson has been compromised and bought off.
This mayor can’t be fixed (in the sense of healed) but neither can Gaza or Chicago. Perhaps Trump and Musk can suggest a cleanse.
Johnson never had the ability. Vallas did/does. Rahm Emmanuel seeing a vacuum?
The answer is: someone worse will replace him. He could have kept this job for life, but he refused to push back against national Democrat leaders who demanded he coddle illegal immigrants. He witness what happened to Eric Adams, who made one comment, one time, complaining about paying for Biden’s illegal immigrants, and ‘coincidentally’ he was charged with felonies three days later for accepting flight upgrades from Turkey….If BJ had just pushed back even a little, and said “No more” maybe he’d be more popular. But now entire south side has become little Caracas, taking over neighborhoods once occupied by… Read more »
Even without immigration Johnson was going to be a one term mayor, his lack of competency across the board and conjoined twins relationship with CTU would have meant defeat next election.
I wonder whether plain old incompetence and corruption will sink him. I’m not sure machine politics / union support plus identity politics won’t re-elect him by the time the next election comes around.
Unfortunately, it will be someone the Public Sector Unions put in. They have bankrupted the city.