Wirepoints’ Mark Glennon on AM560’s Morning Answer: Illinois Budget’s New Taxes Face Serious Constitutional Challenges
June 12, 2026
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A mess of uncertainty and litigation is sure to follow.
With $162 billion more from taxpayers, couldn’t you deliver a few bond upgrades, too
Lightfoot’s commercials seem to indicate she’s turning the corner on reducing crime in Chicago and making other improvements. That guy in Animal House told Dean Wormer the students’ mid-term grades would help them turn the corner.
This will be a real test of the political IQ of Chicago voters. Lori’s job performance is clearly an “F” on any grading scale. But she has a good chance of being reelected. I think it is because the level of expectation for politicians and city government among Chicago voters has sunk so low that nothing better is hoped for. The city will never rebound unless voters raise the bar and demand more. Four more years of Lori will cause irreparable damage, butt we have yet to see if Chicago voters recognize that.
Old Spartan, you’re spot on but Detroit elected Coleman Young for 20 years. His “leadership” is still on display of sorts today.
You couldn`t be more WRONG Lori has no SHOT of winning she has no base to draw from to many black candidates split their vote Garcia takes the Hispanic and Marxist vote Vallas draws the white vote where EXACTLY does Lori get enough votes to get to a runoff
Agreed except Vallas doesn’t draw much white vote outside of the NW and SW sides (Bridgeport too). The white progressives who gave their vote Lori – and got her into the run off – are probably going to switch for Chuy Garcia instead. (SNIP SNIP) Impact Research also surveyed a series of head-to-head match-ups to simulate results of a runoff. In a Lightfoot-vs.-Garcia runoff, Garcia got 55% to Lightfoot’s 24%, with 21% of those surveyed undecided. Vallas also defeats Lightfoot head-to-head, with 42% to Lightfoot’s 35%. The incumbent edges out Wilson 38% to 37%. Lightfoot’s public approval rating was 29%.… Read more »
All I said was she has a “good chance” of being elected. Polls and surveys don’t mean much any longer. We have all seen the inaccuracies over the last three or four election cycles. She will likely get a good percentage of gay, black and white progressive votes. She has the power of the incumbency. Probably enough to get her into a run off. I would love to see Vallas win, but the demographics for him are tough, and he has a track record of not generating an enthusiastic turn out for himself.
Again ur WRONG she doesn`t make a runoff u obviously have no common sense or political sense either let me talk slower for u black vote split Wilson wins the Majority of that White progressive go to Garcia Gay voters r u serious whats that percentage less then one percent totally meaningless Vallas will collect SW/NW side votes the power of incumbency meaning what all those city workers who were forced to take the non-vaccine shot will vote for her nope the incumbents track record sucks so again ur NOTHING BUT WRONG
Polls r meaningless and this one u sight is GARBAGE its all based on Lightfoot making a runoff which isnt happening and again polls r meaningless expect to pollsters and the talking heads recent polls BIG RED WAVE yeah not so much Polls Hillary over Trump Nope and polls in a Chicago mayoral race once stated that Harold Washington was running a decent third so much for polls
It remains to be seen if she makes the runoff but she’s unlikely to win. This we all know. Its just a matter of how we get there.
I don’t think Lori makes it to the runoff. She’s simply lost too many progressives who have other options in Chuy and Johnson and the Black vote is too splintered. Vallas will dominate the NW/SW side and old school Dem votes while Garcia will dominate the Hispanic vote. Those factors alone should make them the frontrunners for the runoff.