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.
For more than 100 years (1870 to 1982) Illinois had a unique system for preventing just this kind of issue. Members of the Illinois House were elected by cumulative voting — there were 3 reps per district and residents could cast 1 vote for each of 3 candidates, 1 1/2 votes for each of 2 candidates, or all 3 votes for one candidate. The result was that every district had one rep from the minority party — there were GOP reps from Chicago (Mayor Daley Sr’s first elective office was as a replacement for a GOP rep that had died)… Read more »
It’s always been a problem. No Judge has the balls to step in and stop it. You had Bilandic and Anne Burke part of the Illinois Supreme Court for years. Him and old Daley protege and her married to jailbird Eddie. Both had Madigans blessing
Take that legislative,gerrymandered map to the US Supreme Court and have it declared illegal and unconstitutional.
The courts have already ruled. Federal courts are not to get involved in partisan map drawing. It’s a political issue and not an issue for the federal courts. You would need the state courts to seek relief.
Rucho v. Common Cause (2109)