“It’s almost foolish financial decision-making to not go to Will County or Indiana,” a local businessman said.
Preckwinkle responded with a refreshing degree of frankness.
“The labor unions pushed it,” Preckwinkle said of the prevailing-wage and apprentice requirements adopted by the county board by an 11-4 vote in March 2018. Labor unions generously supported the campaigns of commissioners facing primary challenges in an election that was held a week after the prevailing-wage vote, she said.
“That’s how the democratic process works,” Preckwinkle told him. “The fact people are contributors gives a little more weight to their concerns.”
The old goats gone from supposed progressive to just another where’s mine dem machine REGRESSIVE
debtsor
6 years ago
Preckwinkle must be getting senile or jaded in her old age after losing so handily in the mayor’s race. She just threw her follow democrat commissioners and her union constituents under the bus. At 72 years old, she may be close to retiring.
A largely unasked question is becoming glaring: Is Illinois doing all it should to use artificial intelligence to make government cost less and work better? So far, the evidence says no.
The old goats gone from supposed progressive to just another where’s mine dem machine REGRESSIVE
Preckwinkle must be getting senile or jaded in her old age after losing so handily in the mayor’s race. She just threw her follow democrat commissioners and her union constituents under the bus. At 72 years old, she may be close to retiring.