For Brandon Johnson, budget defeat and challenges that preceded it threaten reelection chances – Chicago Sun-Times

Mayor Brandon Johnson meets residents Elegio Munoz and Lorenza Munoz who were affected by flooding in Gage Park, Tuesday, Aug. 19, 2025.The coalition of progressive unions that helped put him in office remains fractured. His tax-the-rich agenda has produced more rhetoric than results. Animosity lingers from tactics the Chicago Teachers Union used to intimidate alderpersons who rejected Johnson’s proposed corporate head tax.
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The Railroader
4 months ago

Fran, we knew Mayor Cliff Notes was incompetent before he announced his candidacy. It is the Useless Chicago Media that continues to prop up Illinois political animals and gaslighting their thankfully shrinking readership.

daskoterzar
4 months ago

Pinhead needs to build a cOalition and get some youth organizers and faith leaders and community leaders together and getst a plan together so he can continue to drive the City of Chicago further into the crapper. God help the Chicago and tax payers throughout the state, if Pinhead gets elected again.

Giles Caver
4 months ago

I’m no fan of Brandon’s, but Stacy and her CTU owe him a lot more than $5 million this election cycle for delivering a rich new contract last year.

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