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“For someone to use every act possible not to pay his fair share and then act like he’s this incredibly successful businessman, disappointing’s not the right word. It’s extraordinarily troubling to me,” Lightfoot said at an unrelated news conference.
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Audio and summary Illinois bill would override local law to allow homeless living in all public parks – Wirepoints
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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.
Mark Glennon on AM560’s Morning Answer: Chicago Fiscal Crisis Worse Than Pre-Bankruptcy Detroit, HIV Surge and Public Health Threat From Open Borders Goes Unreported
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Summary and audio linked here.
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Expect no retraction or apology. This what they do.
The idiot democrats and the commie media are too stupid to understand in any way shape or form the complexities of the tax law. They do not understand what non cash expenses like depreciation are. Stupid and sickening and affirmative action Lori leads the ignorant, incompetent democrats.
Interesting comments being she is referring to leaked documents that may or may not be representative of the actual tax reruns basing her case upon what one of the msm fish wraps printed. Quite frankly it may just be one of the typical straw man type of argument points that politicians on both sides of the aisle tend to use quite frequently. I should add that if the leak originated within the Department of Treasury that individual broke the law and then consider if would you trust the reliability of a criminal in this matter? One might opine that if… Read more »
Can someone please repost for me the comments Lightfoot made about Pritzker and the toilet scandal, I missed them.
Yes.
She said and this is a direct quote mind you, that “if that fat man was a woman or even if he wasn’t, I would be more than willing to bend over to kiss his/her @$$”.