The more we learn about the Jenny Thornley affair, the more it appears that senior members of the Pritzker administration, including potentially the governor and his wife, may have facilitated a fraud on the state by a now-indicted former campaign aide to enrich her and then obstructed efforts to bring her to justice.
Ted joined Shaun Thompson to talk about about the Chicago Teachers Union’s absurd new contract demands, why so many Chicago teachers are chronically absent, and Brandon Johnson’s failed first year as mayor.
What a representation of Chicago’s plight.
The bill passed despite their votes in response to certain incidents where local prosecutors are thought to have been too lenient with non-citizens assaulting cops.
The Wall Street Journal Editorial Board cited Wirepoints’ analysis of Chicago student proficiency data in their latest piece condemning the Chicago Teachers Union’s outrageous contract demands…all while a vast majority of Chicago’s children graduate unable to read at grade level.
Ted joined Tom Miller of WJPF to talk about the details of Gov. Pritzker’s proposed $52 billion budget, why the state is struggling now that federal covid dollars have run out, the controversy surrounding Tier 2 government pensions, why Illinois’ expensive education system fails to teach children to read, the outrageous demands of the Chicago Teachers Union, and more.
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OK, I wonder if Pritzker, and all of the other folks involved in these shenanigans, are actually worried about something unpleasant happening to them because of what they’ve done. You know, given the fact that this has all been published in the Chicago Tribune. To say nothing of all the other websites and news sources that have taken note of what has gone on. Sadly, I suspect that they’re not really worried very much at all. As corrupt, fraudulent and illegal as this all appears, it’s just one of a half dozen corrupt, fraudulent and illegal “guvmn’t in Illinois” adventures… Read more »
Pritzker could care less like you stated all these elites think there money is going to save there asses, and unfortunately it seems like it does.
Fat Boy will get 90+% of the vote in Cook/County/Chicago. Nobody cares that he is nothing but an empty shirt (XXXL) rich kid who has no skills other than using a knife and fork. This criminal incident will go away just like hundreds of others the democraps have conspired on. No news coverage, no editorials, no outrage, no condemnation from fellow thieves, oops democraps, nothing. Sit back and watch this scandal blow over.
Stink indeed.
Corrupt to his core is our Mr Freddie Pritzker.
We know it. They know it. And soon all the voters will know it.
I had to laugh at his YouTube Governor advert. Him improving Illinois’s credit rating (with taxpayer funded bailouts I may add) and bringing down its backlog of unpaid bills to $3.5bn! WTH.
How does that advert show any benefit to the Illinois taxpayer and voter?
Mr Irvin will win in November with Mr Griffin’s backing. You heard it here first.
Many Illinois voters are not taxpayers and that is a big part of the problem.
My guess is that it’s because there are no toilets in the Governor’s office.
Fck him and when is this Covid bllsht going to end?
This story should be covered by every news station in the state. The liberal Chicago stations won’t go near it unfortunately. Too busy fawning over Do Nothing Durbin and Tammy Dimwit when they aren’t covering “breaking news” about Covid.
JB, you are the furthest thing from a “public servant”. Your entire existence is one big effort to aggrandize your legacy. Let’s contemplate for a moment. Born into a fortune in the billions, figured out how to avoid property taxes by removing toilets, oh, wait, a bond upgrade you say? Wow, that’s awesome… Wait, FED $$$ – oh, I guess nothing has changed.
Bring Pritzker and his wife to there knees get these people out of office.
I guess I should now refer to Pritzker as ‘Boss Hogg’. So disgusting. Pritzker’s lack of basic integrity is appalling.
This sure does stink. We wrote to the same effect on this affair last month: https://wirepoints.org/answers-needed-as-illinois-jenny-thornley-affair-continues-wirepoints-original/
IL legislators & high office holders would commit fraud & malfeasance…?
Since when…?!?!?
Oh year, since forever…
And thanks to BHO, the entire federal government is infected with this behavior…
Funny how things like this become national news but the average Illinoisan knows nothing about them.
On man, many issues, so Illinois voters are in an alternate universe if they are relying mostly on Illinois media sources.
Like good propagandists, IL media knows that criticizing JB for any reason means they won’t get any of that nine figure, hundreds of millions of dollars advertising budget between now and November. AM 560 criticizes JB every day, how much money do you think JB will be spending on ads with Salem media?
Now much money will spend with ABC 7 our local affiliate? Lots and lots. ..
Sadly, they do. Educated (well, in some cases) folks – many of whom are friends – seem incapable of removing themselves from the echo chamber that is the mainstream media. Folks who made successful careers using their capacity for critical thought and analytical skills. MG, it is mind-boggling. The whole mass psychosis theory seems to be gaining evidence…
Yup. I continue to believe that some sort of psychological matter afflicts many on today’s far left. I have a column in the queue on that but it has been low priority.
Well we all know it can’t be coming from the toilets.