Paul Vallas: The High Cost of Toni Preckwinkle on Chicago – Chicago Contrarian

"As Preckwinkle begins her quest for a fifth term, she will almost certainly make the case that effective fiscal management is one of the primary reasons that voters should return her to office. ... Preckwinkle’s budgets have grown from just over $3 billion in 2011 to an astounding $9.9 billion in 2024. Moreover, Preckwinkle has balanced her budgets at the expense of public safety, as 40.9 percent of the budget once went to public safety in the early stages of her term as Board president. Today, a mere 17 percent is appropriated to safety in County budgets."
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Isn’t Illinois Fun?
11 months ago

It’s not just the financial burden she has created, the detriment to society from her pro criminal efforts is incalculable. She seems to enjoy the spread of crime to formerly safe areas.

Riverbender
11 months ago

Buying votes with taxpayers own money…what a novel idea.

Deb
11 months ago

Vote her out! Will be hard to do with all the gerrymandering. She only see suburbs as an area to tax and give money to Chicago.

PPF
11 months ago
Reply to  Deb

How does gerrymandering impact a county wide election? If you live in Cook county you get to vote. If she wins it’s because the voters of cook county want her in that job.

Hello, Indiana!
11 months ago

Taxwinkle is looking to bleed the taxpayers dry at breakneck speed and appears to be well on her way to doing so. She and the cabal can then give the abandoned homes away for a dollar to her kind of people.

Old Joe
11 months ago

Public Safety? What’s that?

Reese
11 months ago

Preckwinkle, Soros, and Foxx were all on the same page. They wanted to “open the jailhouse doors.” They only have contempt for crime victims.

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