"... (A)s a member of the Illinois House, two pieces of legislation of hers that Governor JB Pritzker signed into law were ruinous. The worst one wasn’t even a standalone bill, it was sneaked into the 2021 state budget, as the State Journal-Register explained at the time: 'Illinois will become the first state to provide Medicaid for undocumented seniors not only because of what state Rep. Delia Ramirez has heard from her constituents, but because of her own family’s experience.'"
ICE needs to pound on her door in the middle of the night, drag her criminal husband out and put him on the first plane out of America.
PROUD AMERICAN BOB K
9 months ago
Why would anyone ever be proud of being from Latin America. Totally useless region and I challenge Ms Ramirez to name even one good thing that part of the world has ever produced.
If her husband is undocumented what in the hell is he still doing here and let her follow him back to Guatemala.
Ricardo T
9 months ago
Jack Lucey’s very negative article about Congresswoman Delia Ramirez has racist undertones. Has he not gotten any? Here is what’s wrong with his article (and him): “I’m a proud Guatemalan before I’m an American” Lucey strips this quote of all context without providing the full speech, venue details, or surrounding remarks. This selective quotation represents journalistic malpractice designed to manufacture controversy. Many Americans express pride in their heritage while serving in Congress – this is neither unusual nor problematic. The implication that ethnic pride somehow disqualifies someone from American public service reveals a narrow, exclusionary view of American identity. “ICE… Read more »
That’s good. Now next week we’ll work on font sizing.
mqyl
9 months ago
The expected way of managing taxpayer funds in Illinois is to mismanage taxpayer funds in Illinois. We taxpayers have been abused so much over the years that almost no high level of greed/mismanagement/incompetence surprises us anymore. We need to elect officials who will manage our money properly. They’re very hard to find.
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.
ICE needs to pound on her door in the middle of the night, drag her criminal husband out and put him on the first plane out of America.
Why would anyone ever be proud of being from Latin America. Totally useless region and I challenge Ms Ramirez to name even one good thing that part of the world has ever produced.
She can’t, because it hasn’t.
Uh, coffee maybe?
If her husband is undocumented what in the hell is he still doing here and let her follow him back to Guatemala.
Jack Lucey’s very negative article about Congresswoman Delia Ramirez has racist undertones. Has he not gotten any? Here is what’s wrong with his article (and him): “I’m a proud Guatemalan before I’m an American” Lucey strips this quote of all context without providing the full speech, venue details, or surrounding remarks. This selective quotation represents journalistic malpractice designed to manufacture controversy. Many Americans express pride in their heritage while serving in Congress – this is neither unusual nor problematic. The implication that ethnic pride somehow disqualifies someone from American public service reveals a narrow, exclusionary view of American identity. “ICE… Read more »
Good luck with that, Ricardo.
I hope he isn’t in sales. He sure didn’t sell me.
That’s good. Now next week we’ll work on font sizing.
The expected way of managing taxpayer funds in Illinois is to mismanage taxpayer funds in Illinois. We taxpayers have been abused so much over the years that almost no high level of greed/mismanagement/incompetence surprises us anymore. We need to elect officials who will manage our money properly. They’re very hard to find.