Even more evidence Illinois can thank the federal government’s covid bailouts for its budget bonanza – Wirepoints
Some Illinois lawmakers continue to deny that covid aid and other federal stimulus bailed the state out of its fiscal mess. But a look at past and projected revenues from COGFA shows just how much the bailouts blew out the state’s revenues. And now that they’re over, how much harder it will be for Illinois revenues to grow.
More evidence of the proposition: “Fool me once, shame on you; fool me twice, shame on me”. Fool me all of the time sounds like Emanuel’s and O’Connors’s practice of local government. Will one of the 21 candidates for Mayor have the integrity to finally decide that “Chicago is ready for reform” and in a new revolutionary spirit of 2019 lead the victimized residents of Chicago to a new world of freedom from corrupt politics? That’s the only issue of the coming election and another brief opportunity for the voters to distinguish the candidates between the good, the bad and… Read more »
Lived on the border of Ald O’Connors 40 ward in horrible family dynasty Ald Larino’s 39th ward for over 25 years. innumerable shenanigans between the two of those alderman over the years. But mostly, its degrading feeling you have no chance to change things in your ward. Ald Larino is retiring thank god, I believe she was a 100% rubber stamp for daley & emanuel over all those years. sure o’connor was the same. was reading in trib that the alderman were more of a rubber stamp under emanul than under daley- unbelievable!
1. You have no “clean” Chicago politicians.
2. Chicago voters have not seemed all that bothered by #1
So. You get what you ask for. At least NYC did vote for and get Guiliani. Bloomberg also wasn’t all that bad (nor Koch, so long ago)
But Chicago?
I’m somewhat surprised Burke got caught… but not that surprised nobody else (Preckwinkle… Madison… etc.) has been nabbed. Yet.
Actually, there are a few clean ones. Unfortunately, most are far left Progressives. That much has to be said for Progressives (though not all of them) — they hate the Machine crooks as much as us. A couple examples: Alderman Scott Waguespack and Lori Lightfoot who is running for mayor. Both clean as far as I know
What about Jeanie Ives?
forgot we were talking only about chicago POS
Right. There are other clean ones outside Chicago. But let’s face it: The story of graft in Illinois is overwhelmingly a story about Cook County Dems.
Clean as they come.
Mark – Progressives hate the Machine crooks only because they haven’t asked them to join in any Machine games, or at least not on the scale that would appease them. But once they get a taste of power, they’re really not much different. Case in point: DSA and progressive heartthrob Alderman Carlos Rosa backed a $5 million tax break to Berman (fka Mid-City) Nissan just so they could move from one Chicago ward into his a few years ago. For those keeping score at home, Nissan is a foreign-owned manufacturer building cars in a right-to-work state. But Rosa is all… Read more »