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“There is a different standard that I’m held to. There is,” Johnson said. “And that’s not something that I’m mad at, but that’s just the reality. I’m not the first person of color, particularly a Black man, that will be held to a different standard than other administrations...These are microaggressions, that if you don’t have the lens of those who have lived through these experiences, you would just miss it. You would, because the same — some of the folks who would call me slow, do you understand what that term means? Particularly (toward) the Black community. So you have these forces that perpetuate a particular view of Blackness.”
Summary and audio linked here.
Chicago’s political leadership is floating a pension buyout program as evidence it is seriously addressing the city’s thirty-six-billion-dollar unfunded pension liability, but Mark Glennon, founder of the Illinois policy research organization Wirepoints, said that the proposal moves debt from one column to another rather than reducing it, and that the broader fiscal picture facing the city continues to deteriorate across every measurable dimension. Audio here.
Expect no retraction or apology. This what they do.
The state’s existing buyout program for its own pensions is the precedent for Chicago, which should be a warning: Look out for similar exaggerated claims and shoddy analysis.
Full interview and summary linked here.
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Cook County board president, black
States Attorney, black
Chief Judge, black
Police Superintendent, black
City Aldermen, many black
Chicago Fire Department Chief, black
State reps & State Senators covering Chicago, many black
Yep, that’s one gosh darn racist place.
FAILED CITY ALERT: BJ The Sloth And His 100 Days Of Do-Nothing – Illinois Policy Institute
waaaaah
Time to play the victim card
Sad day for Chicago when its Mayor relies on sole excuse “I’m a black man, bite me”.
Chicago outdid itself electing this fool.
Obama started this ‘aggrievement profession’ when he was involved with dalliances in Chicago. It pays well. Sadly, many are duped by the hucksterism of it.
Actually people should stop criticizing Mr. Brandon. He is exactly whom the Chicago voters wanted to run the City last election. Rather than criticize instead sit back, have plenty of popcorn and watch the show of a lifetime.
There ya go: what a great attitude attitude you have expressed here! What doesn’t kill you makes you stronger as some declare when pondering at life’s immediate challenging turn of events.
Except his policies might actually get you killed.
Kill joy
Of course BJs policies might get you killed which is reason enough to avoid that place known as Chicago. I personally would recommend that most, if not all, avoid the place that has rampant crime, a DA who will not prosecute and soon to be no cash bail for criminals. The people that live in that area obviously want it that way and so be it while people like me can humorously stand on the outside looking in.
Keep pouring gasoline on the fire. Your neighborhood is next.
The standard is set by the education levels coming out of the CPS.
No double standards, just low, low standards.
He is a nightmare in the happening. When you thought things could not get worse, they just did.
The racist excuse by BJ doesn’t fly. Lightfoot also claimed racism and her being a lesbian as excuses for not getting anything done. These racism excuses are so old no one pays attention.
Jeez – what a read! Talk about vaporous nonsense.
Frantic, frightened & feeble.
And ‘in charge.’
Best of luck, all you Black and Hispanic Chicago ‘racists’ who’ve been pitching fits about BJ flopping around saying much, and doing little.
As to the 65% of Chicago’s eligible voters who stayed home on Election Day, guess what?
You get exactly the kind of ‘governance’ that other people thought sounded just fine to them.
FAILED CITY ALERT: Jesse Watters: Lori Lightfoot Starts Harvard Tenure To Teach How To Ruin A Once Great City – Fox News Video; Johnson Follows Lightfoot’s Race Card Playbook
Sometime you learn more by studying FAILURE than success.
Your right, but I do not think their goal is success.
He’s not slow. He just has no plans to govern. He just wants to destroy. And if you criticize his lack of governance, you’re a racist microaggressor.
This is the 84 IQ response we all expected. He doesn’t even bother defending his poor record. He just accuses you of noticing.
I’ll bet he’s rapidly waking up to the reality that the flakie progressive sudo-socialist crew he’s surrounded himself with have ZERO management experience as well.
Brandon is from an insulated industry slow to change and averse to metrics. So expect a lot of be patient and don’t grade me.
Spot on.
Yep, exactly correct. Not surprising that BJ would use the same ‘go to’ excuse employed by CPS and CTU in response to all their illiterate school children. You have to wonder what BJ would list as ‘experience’ on an application for a private sector job involving financial management tasks – projecting sales, budgeting revenue, tracking actual vs budget across a line-item rolling statement of operations. I’ll bet the average McDonald’s franchise owner’s shift supervisors have more experience in this environment than BJ does. BJ’s lost – in WAY over his head – and his October budget will prove it, I… Read more »
Brandon Johnson made over $100k a year, for many years, and the dude couldn’t be bothered to pay his Best Buy credit card or water bill. He couldn’t care less about his credit score, or his ability to obtaining favorable credit rates, or even his reputation. He was just hustlin’ every day and sometimes, you steal from peter to pay paul. I can’t scream this loudly enough. This is how he will govern Chicago. He doesn’t care that he’s in over his head. He’s not going to ‘govern’ in the sense that you and I are used to a mayor… Read more »
Here ye, hear ye: Mr. gloom and doom has spoken yet again, believe it or not!
Fans of the woeful countenance have spoken, too. Glory be.
How am I wrong? If I’m wrong, show me the money, show me the money.
Well, you asked, so here’s my two cents. Your mind seems so highly focused on politics and the cost of it, being ever so quick to fault politicians and those in governmental employ all over the map whom you consider robbing you. That’s an unending set of criminals in your view, and it’s turning you into a person filled with hatred. Break that psychological mold, or you’ll likely suffer the consequences probably in terms of your health and personal relationships. Whether you know it or not you desperately need to find more happiness in your soul, and finding that will… Read more »
I appreciate the psychoanalysis but what you’ve completed missed is that I’m just the mirror image of the progressive, except I’m conservative. Yes, I have become my enemy – a monster – but I only do so, because I play to win.
B.N. don’t trust everything you read on the internet…
WOW, after only 100 days and he’s playing the ‘systemic racism’ victim card. PATHETIC!!!
He’s been playing that card his entire life.
Slow start at what? He’s got homeless tents popping up all over the city like mushrooms. There are at least 60 industrial tents for the homeless in Humboldt park now. There are at least another 10 under the bridges at at Lake and Canal. Every police station now violates municipal code with migrant housing. These are just the things I’ve witnessed in the past few days.
Crime is up at least 100% in my neighborhood!