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"Chicago is a mess, and Mayor Brandon Johnson's stunning favorable rating certainly reflects that. On Monday morning, many took to pointing out how Johnson has just a 6.6 percent favorable rating, which has become a trending topic on X. He's also got close to an 80 percent unfavorable rating."
Summary and audio linked here.
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.
Expect no retraction or apology. This what they do.
The state’s existing buyout program for its own pensions is the precedent for Chicago, which should be a warning: Look out for similar exaggerated claims and shoddy analysis.
Full interview and summary linked here.
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Hahahahaha! Mayor zero percent! To all the CTU and machine clowns raiding the comments and voting up despair:
Encouraging conservatives to move out of Illinois has failed.
Tax increases have failed.
Stopping Trump has failed, and now he’s posturing for revenge!
Globalism is being dismantled.
The machine is out of other people’s money.
Nazi blaming no longer works.
DOGE is dismantling liberal finance.
Johnson’s race baiting no longer works.
Good luck with mayor zero percent approval at the Congressional hearing on the 3rd.
Mark my words – he WILL get re-elected by the uneducated, race-based electorate.
Disagree. He won’t get re-elected but someone of similar caliber or ever worse will win the next round. See Lightfoot to Johnson if you have any doubts. As long as voters top priorities are the color of the skin of a mayoral candidate we can expect the other issues to not rise to any level of importance.
This is probably the first time I have ever agreed with you.
I still believe the root cause of all his problems is his response to the illegal immigration crisis: The top three issues in the survey – crime, high taxes and inflation – are a direct or indirect result of immigrants. Crime would drop and housing and food prices would drop if hundreds of thousands of illegals suddenly disappeared. High taxes are to pay for the immigrants and those won’t go down, but CPS is always asking for more money to pay for illegal immigrants which cost more to educate because they have all kinds of learning disabilities and they don’t… Read more »
Agree, but really, the root cause of his problems is that he’s a moron. He’s just too stupid to be in such a position to do it well, but there is the crux, he doesn’t want to do the job well…he wants to work the job to his and his contributors benefit and then walk into the sun-set.
Johnson and the Chitty have the same kind of rating. Shameful that a once GREAT City has fallen on such hard times.
Interesting, but not surprising, that the four three issues cited in the polls are all Republican issues:
Crime 67.0%
High Taxes 54.0%
Inflation (cost of goods and services) 41.0%
Immigration Control/Border Security 24.0%
I see no article in the Tribune or Sun-Times on this new poll, even though it’s making national headlines. Instead, they feature the usual anti-Trump stuff.
The USA no longer votes with the countries of the Free World. This should make national headlines.
Lawrence: Trump humiliated on the world stage as France’s Macron instantly corrects his Ukraine lie
Trump says lots of stupid and dishonest things, but I certainly don’t agree with you and O’Donell. I regard JD Vance’s Munich speech as the seminal one. It was spot on and historic. It’s Europe that is losing its way. There will be nasty fights over who pays how much for European Defense and Ukraine’s bills, security guarantees for Ukraine, NATO and all the rest. But at the end of the day I expect that the war will be ended, Europeans will pay more (as they should) and Europe will be defended. Yes, maybe the US gives up a bit… Read more »
Recent United Nations votes concerning the Ukraine conflict, the United States under President Donald Trump has aligned with countries often labeled as dictatorships. Notably, the U.S. joined Russia, North Korea, Belarus, and China in opposing a UN General Assembly resolution that condemned Russia’s invasion of Ukraine and called for an immediate withdrawal of Russian forces. This stance marked a significant departure from traditional U.S. foreign policy and created a rift with longstanding European allies, who largely supported the resolution. nypost.com President Trump has also refrained from labeling Russian President Vladimir Putin as a dictator, instead directing criticism toward Ukrainian President… Read more »
It isn’t at all surprising that MSNBC takes an opportunity to swing at Trump. They have watched their entire workplace implode as a result of lying continually about Trump. Of course they favor the view of liberal France on the Ukraine. Zelensky and Ukraine have plenty to apologize for in this mess, and Trump is right to stop funding this ridiculous scrum. We’ll never know exactly how many billions Biden and his handlers funneled to Ukraine. Lawrence O’Donnell is an extreme leftist pinhead who shouldn’t be believed on anything.
I will ALWAYS be a good allied to the countries of the Free World.
I believe in Freedom. Never align will dictators or people who oppress their citizens.
Trump is the first President to do different. Shameful behavior. He will go down as the worst President in history of the US.
Trump does have lawless instincts, but when courts finally rule on the aggressive moves he has made I think he will comply. Your anger should be over the 2020 election which was stolen through lies about Russiagate and suppression of the Hunter Biden laptop, accomplished though collusion of tech platforms, media and deep state. That was easily enough to flip the 40K or so votes that decided the election, spread among 3 or 4 states.
I appreciate your confidence that Trump will be the worst President in US history, based on one month of Trump’s second term. You obviously aren’t talking about his first term, which was an unqualified success after the moribund 8 years of Obama. Are you sure you aren’t thinking about the dementia ridden Joe Biden. He is at this point, the absolute worst President in US history, unless of course you don’t count him since he was clearly incapacitated throughout his term in office.
Do people still look to the Trib and the Times for their news?
Many do, unfortunately. They get their news from maybe a casual watch of TV evening news, a glance at those papers, etc. Can’t entirely blame them since most are busting their butts to make ends meet, raise a family, etc. Wirepoints readers must remember they are not typical, being mostly newshounds with open minds.
And after his testimony in Washington DC, he can rightfully claim “I’m Bad, I’m Nationwide”!