Ted joined Shaun Thompson to talk about about the Chicago Teachers Union’s absurd new contract demands, why so many Chicago teachers are chronically absent, and Brandon Johnson’s failed first year as mayor.
What a representation of Chicago’s plight.
The bill passed despite their votes in response to certain incidents where local prosecutors are thought to have been too lenient with non-citizens assaulting cops.
The Wall Street Journal Editorial Board cited Wirepoints’ analysis of Chicago student proficiency data in their latest piece condemning the Chicago Teachers Union’s outrageous contract demands…all while a vast majority of Chicago’s children graduate unable to read at grade level.
Ted joined Tom Miller of WJPF to talk about the details of Gov. Pritzker’s proposed $52 billion budget, why the state is struggling now that federal covid dollars have run out, the controversy surrounding Tier 2 government pensions, why Illinois’ expensive education system fails to teach children to read, the outrageous demands of the Chicago Teachers Union, and more.
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Bailey should stop with the TV ads and shift that $300K to solely digital. That could buy dozens of millions of impressions on social and through programmatic; and target the collar counties geofencing around grocery stores and gas stations. Deliver ads to every mom who buys groceries, lay inflation and gas prices on Pritzker and offer change. Spend all the money in the 4 weeks into the election. Don’t waste money now.
“Is the Funding Gap Between Pritzker and Bailey’s Campaigns Insurmountable?” You bet it is, as is the predisposition among Illinois voters to elect and reelect politicians whose campaigns promise “more of the same” bankruptcy of finances and governance in our state. Pritzker’s got the public employee unions, the private sector trade unions (whose Wheatie’s Dem’s just pissed all over), the Medicaid Industrial Complex of Big Doc, Big Pharm and Big Hospital, and an uncritical and obliging legacy media on his side. Bailey’s got a snowball’s chance in the hot place of winning this election, and the RINO Illinois political/business establishment… Read more »
Bailey has a better chance than a snowballs chance in the hot place but JB’s supporters need to stay at home, and everyone of Bailey’s need to show up, and downstate clerks need to make sure they don’t report their vote totals until two weeks after the election, as they wait for unsigned, unpostmarked late absentee ballots to arrive in the mail….to give Bailey the win. They CAN’T give Cook County the chance to ‘find’ votes in real time to overcome downstate’s vote totals.
Biden won Illinois by over a million votes. Even if you tossed out all of Cook County voting, Biden still wins by over 400k votes. The idea that Cook County won the state for Biden is completely false. Must have been all those far left county clerks in Dupage, Lake, Will and Kane counties cheating since Trump lost there as well. Cook County voting only ran up the score for Biden. Somehow I don’t think Bailey will do better than Trump. Can Bailey even get 1.7 million votes for the entire state? Biden received more than that in Cook County… Read more »
There’s a path. It’s called Rauner in 2014. Neither Biden nor Trump are on the ticket this year. I doubt most Democrats are even aware that Trump endorsed Bailey. Maybe they’ll learn that with JB’s commercials, but that’s free advertising for Bailey, so maybe not. There is a path. This is a red wave year and if downstate wants to stuff the ballot just like Cook County does, there is a chance, not great, but it is there.
If we have to win by stuffing ballot boxes then we’ve already lost.
We’ve already lost if we wait late into the night for Cook County vote drops to report 95 to 5 vote margins for JB over Bailey. The ‘ground game’ going on right now for JB is substantial. The man was paying $10 a signature just to get his name on the ballot when the going rate was $3. He spent $44,000,000 last election for staff and field. Huh? What exactly are these people doing? All that that money isn’t for polls and digital ads. It’s the ground game and it doesn’t take much imagination to understand what it takes to… Read more »