Totaling the unsustainable tax increases and windfall revenue during Pritzker Administration – Wirepoints
May 26, 2026
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With $162 billion more from taxpayers, couldn’t you deliver a few bond upgrades, too
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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.
This has all the hallmarks of every crooked IL Democrat deal
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Open Meetings Act.
If they signed NDAs, it sounds like signed admissions that public officials discussed public business without legally necessary public notice.
Illinois law doesn’t disappear because local government bodies say it does.
If Governor strong-armed this suspension of Illinois legal protections of local communities, can anyone (other than Jenny Thornley types) in Illinois feel protected by ‘law’?
It will be very interesting to watch this unfold. I have high regard for the residents that are coming together to fight this underhanded attempt to sell out their town. They should make it clear that the political careers of those behind Gotion will be over should it proceed. And there should be a full review of any backroom shenanigans. Full transparency!