Illinois Republicans can’t decry the redistricting process and then vote to cement union power in the state constitution. Wirepoints President Ted Dabrowski joins Dan Proft and Amy Jacobson on Chicago’s Morning Answer to discuss.
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con
2 years ago
McCombie is the bad apple who voted “Yes”.
con
2 years ago
Can we do a correction from the show. Dan Proft stated that Mazzochi voted Present on the workers rights amendment but the tally clearly shows an “N”. Am I wrong?
Old Spartan
2 years ago
Most people don’t realize that as the public unions have gotten more entrenched, in many districts the Republican office holders have a hard time standing up to them. In many suburbs and small towns the teachers unions can’t be ignored. Getting a prison in your district sounds like a great way to create jobs, but that means bringing in a lot of union employees and influence. Running I-355 through DuPage county sounded like a good idea at the time, but now you have thousands of union votes in DuPage from all the unionized Toll Way employees. The unintended consequence is… Read more »
SherlockHomeless
2 years ago
Illinois politicians will always go out of their way to diappoint Illinois taxpayers.
Linda
2 years ago
They’re all hypocrites! Only after the money and what benefits them personally never about their constituents and people of Illinois.
“We are not in good shape” Wirepoints’ Ted Dabrowski told ABC 20 Champaign during a segment on Illinois’ latest population losses. Illinois was one of just three states to shrink in the 2010-2020 period and has lost another 300,000 people since then. Ted says things need to change. “It’s too expensive to live here, there aren’t enough good jobs and nobody trusts the government anymore. There’s just other places to go where you can be more satisfied.”
Mark joined Dan and Amy to talk about just how much the illegal immigration crisis is costing Chicagoans and Illinoisans, why it’s so hard for the public to realize how big the state and the country’s spending problem is, why Illinoisans have so little confidence in the state’s election security, and more
Illinois’ teachers unions unions used the March primary to try and take out State Reps. Blaine Wilhour and Adam Niemerg, pouring a combined $462,000 into the campaigns of two Republican primary opponents. Their effort failed, spectacularly. But while the unions lost this time, their efforts shouldn’t be ignored.
Satire and sarcasm may abound, but loss of confidence in elections is no laughing matter. The ways to restore both the perception and reality of honest elections are simple.
McCombie is the bad apple who voted “Yes”.
Can we do a correction from the show. Dan Proft stated that Mazzochi voted Present on the workers rights amendment but the tally clearly shows an “N”. Am I wrong?
Most people don’t realize that as the public unions have gotten more entrenched, in many districts the Republican office holders have a hard time standing up to them. In many suburbs and small towns the teachers unions can’t be ignored. Getting a prison in your district sounds like a great way to create jobs, but that means bringing in a lot of union employees and influence. Running I-355 through DuPage county sounded like a good idea at the time, but now you have thousands of union votes in DuPage from all the unionized Toll Way employees. The unintended consequence is… Read more »
Illinois politicians will always go out of their way to diappoint Illinois taxpayers.
They’re all hypocrites! Only after the money and what benefits them personally never about their constituents and people of Illinois.
Unfortunately it was and never will be about us until someday hopefully we take are heads out of are you know what and stick up for ourselves
Not exactly the same, but meanwhile our thriving/ zero debt neighbor to east– Indiana is going the complete opposite direction. https://thehill.com/opinion/finance/554295-indiana-protects-first-amendment-rights-of-public-employees-other-states