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I’ve lost count in a 20min presser how many times Brandon Johnson has said “i inherited this problem” …
Dude, nobody asked you to run for mayor.
Put your big boy pants on and do the job.
In this last press conference he blamed the previous city council for not
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31 years ago my grandmother wrote a letter to Mike Royko and his response was classic.
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@ChicagosMayor
Imagine being so bad at your job you have to send a tweet telling people you will actually do your job.
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*New* Mayor Brandon Johnson is running Chicago like its his middle school class. The administration sent a google doc form to aldermen asking if they support the following 16 taxes, w/ no details on the actual tax, and aldermen can only respond 'Yes' or 'No'
Sales Tax on
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Terrorism
12 Thai migrant workers killed. 11 Kidnapped
10 Nepali agricultural students killed
6 missing Filipino migrant workers, likely kidnapped
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I don’t even have words to describe this… just watch
At a meeting with Gov. Pritzker and CC Board President Preckwinkle last week, Mayor Johnson agreed to try to find $71 million to care for migrants, but later backed out and the mayor’s office now says he never “made that commitment.”
W/
@LeighGiangreco
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My dude grew up in Rolling Meadows talking about capitalism is a cancer 😂
University of Illinois Chicago Students at Friday Sermon: America Is a Cancer; People Are Tired of Democracy, and Muslims Have an alternative Way of Life to Offer; May Allah Make Us Among the Liberators of the Al-Aqsa Mosque
@thisisUIC
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I will be starting a gofundme for this guy’s defense
Prosecutors have charged a man with a felony for tossing a Big Gulp on Kim Foxx during a roadway dispute.
Officials say he had no idea who she was when he yelled at her to stop walking in the street.
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Wait Chicago Aldermen pressured Live Nation and the House of Blues to cancel Matisyahu’s show and NOBODY in Chicago media is reporting it?!
After his concert in Chicago was canceled because of anti-Israel protests, the Jewish community rallied around
@Matisyahu
. Now he's speaking to us about what really happened.
Despite everything, he's louder and prouder than ever about Judaism and Israel.
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Chicago alderman thinks he can flat out lie about people.
@williamrawlss
In conversation I had directly with the CEO, they presented it as a violence reduction tool, which it is not.
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Mayor Brandon Johnson’s handpicked Housing committee chair for the Chicago city council, Byron Sigcho Lopez, using a Hamas rallying cry
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Need YOUR HELP. Chicago's Mayor Brandon Johnson continues to funnel illegal campaign contributions from people who have contracts with the city.
Please RT this and message the Chicago Board of Ethics & Chicago Inspector General.
City contractors are restricted to only
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DENIED: Brandon Johnson's appeal to stop enforcement of court order not to count Bring Chicago Home votes is denied.
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New: The Chicago Teachers Union has a demonstration planned against their elected mayor, Brandon Johnson. The theme is "Raise my taxes"
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This is a stunning defeat for Brandon Johnson. Stop listening to idiots
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@dieworkwear
Someone said "it's like inviting the CTO to an important meeting with investors"
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Brandon Johnson is destroying in 6 months what it took progressives 10+ years to build
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New poll shows Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson badly underwater. 41% strongly disapprove.
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This is the biggest story the Chicago media has ignored. This is in direct retaliation for something this CTU member did which relates to Mayor Brandon Johnson. It goes back to his first run for cook county commissioner in 2018. Brandon Johnson was supposed to be working full
One of CTU's former employees filed a complaint with the
@NLRB
, claiming retaliation with CTU trying to collect back pay and get the former employee to pay their attorney fees. 🤦
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Brandon Johnson will go down in Chicago history for the dumbest tie-breaking votes. Protecting Carlos Rosa and a meaningless resolution
BREAKING: Chicago became the largest city in the nation to demand a cease-fire in the war between Israel and Hamas, thanks to a symbolic resolution approved by a divided City Council Wednesday, forcing Mayor Brandon Johnson to cast the tie-breaking vote.
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Brandon Johnson is surrounded by amateur, loud mouth, neophytes like Alderman William Hall. These are poorly thought out proposals see below
Video Gaming - Legalized video gambling in Chicago would cannibalize the revenue the downtown casino makes and not only that, it would
Chicago's search for new revenue targets video gaming, wealth taxes, heliport, downtown digital ads
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Tens of millions of taxpayer’s dollars are spent on non-profit “violence prevention” groups every year. Where were they this weekend? There is no accountability over these programs.
At least 104 people were shot over the weekend, 19 fatally.
It's the second-worst Independence Day weekend since at least 2014
Asked on Friday if the city's anti-violence plan was working, the mayor's deputy mayor of community safety ducked the question
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Byron and his wife have a condo literally around the corner from here they lied on their home owners exemption and cheated on property taxes much like Stacy Davis Gates. During COVID Byron was downtown instead of living in the 25th. You can see the high ceilings in the zoom city
This is the goofiest shit. Byron Sigcho Lopez cosplaying socialist
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This is the goofiest shit. Byron Sigcho Lopez cosplaying socialist
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Wait why are we waiting for the city to count nursing home votes? Doesn’t nursing home voting take place before Election Day? What is going on
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This is how dumb these people are. Ald Fuentes bring up a 4 year old being shot in her ward and says “Shotspotter detected the sound.” She voted against it.
This is a stunning defeat for Brandon Johnson. Stop listening to idiots
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Chicago Aldermanic Black Caucus out with a statement against DSA clown Alderman Carlos Ramirez Rosa, the floor leader for Mayor Brandon Johnson.
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The second case that Kim Foxx dropped was the murder of my little brothers best friend. He was gunned down for nothing. This asshole thought he was in a rival gang and he wasn't. I had to call my brother and tell him that today. Sorry no justice for Albert
Harvey Pitts, known as the "Angel of Death" because "every time he goes out, someone dies," was sentenced to 38 years in prison today for murdering a rival gang member on the North Side on Thanksgiving Day 2015.
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leave it to Johnson to focus on something so unimportant, then waiver on that unimportant thing. He is so overmatched by the job it's incredible.
Mayor's office reverses plan to remove City Hall George Washington statue
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Holy shit COPA didn’t even interview the officers yet but the head of COPA is on tv talking bullshit. This is some 3rd world level justice
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Look at that greedy real estate industry providing all those jobs!
#BringChicagoHome
Massive foundation mat pour undertaking at 400 N Lake Shore this morning
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The very public way Toni Preckwinkle sided with JB Pritzker today got every insiders attention.
The way it is perceived in those circles will be far more impactful to the Brandon Johnson administration than how the public perceives this story.
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I’ve been listening very carefully to our local leaders for quite some time with respect to the Bring Chicago Home proposal, and I’ve not heard one legitimate response on how that money will be used.
For that reason alone, I can’t support it.
#BringChicagoHome
Letter to the Editor:
My fundamental problem with the “Bring Chicago Home” proposal is that it is only half a proposal.
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Same folks who told people to vote for the guy with no managerial/executive experience to be Mayor of Chicago are the same ones complaining he nominated someone w/ no transit background to the RTA board… incredible
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@JoaquinCastrotx
@RepCasar
@NydiaVelazquez
@RepLloydDoggett
@RepJayapal
@RepRoKhanna
@RepAOC
@RepMarkTakano
@RepMcGovern
@RepBarbaraLee
@repblumenauer
“The hostages” you do there are American citizens still being held. Not one reference to that. Shameful
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I know nothing about environmental reports but I don't understand why the administration didn't have the ground tested BEFORE they signed a $500,000 "as-is" lease if it only takes 1 week to get results?
The contract was signed 10/26/23 by the property owner & finalized 11/1 by
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Mayor Brandon Johnson gets testy and points at Ahern with his non-answer
A mayoral spokesperson says the mayor will address the spending announcement in a post-Council presser this afternoon
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Well look at that RIGHT WING Ald La Spata supporting a recall and the CTU's favorite RIGHT WING twitter user. And Progressive RIGHT WING leader Will Guzzardi
#twill
Mayor Brandon Johnson on Wednesday blasted a nascent effort to establish a legal tool for voters to recall Chicago mayors, calling it “disingenuous” and saying it is backed by “extreme right wing” political rivals.
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COPA hasn’t even interviewed the officers yet but the head of COPA is out on tv talking bullshit. The WTTW interview where she talks about 11th district deployment is way out of line and scope of her duties. Lawyers are going to love this one and taxpayers will end up footing the
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Last week the CTU president called it a racist bill while the AFT president
@rweingarten
was standing behind her and Gov. Pritzker responded.
In the meantime, Johnson and Davis Gates ought to take stock of that 92-8 vote of no confidence. When Springfield feels compelled to halt your education agenda in its tracks, you should reflect on how better to persuade people outside your progressive echo chamber of the wisdom
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If you supported Bring Chicago Home, if you knocked doors, made phone calls, let’s be clear, you were let down by poor leadership.
Whoever told you it was Rahm’s fault, lied to you.
Whoever told you it was Lightfoots fault lied to you.
These leaders used you, used your pain,
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Funny that he didn’t mention the issue once in his 6 month campaign running for mayor.
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If you recently said WBEZ/Chicago Sun-Times has tilted their political coverage too far left don’t be surprised the guy chanting “Death to Israel” & “Death to America” was just featured in a WBEZ story last year & writes for a Pro-Iran, Pro-Assad, Pro-Hezbollah news site.
Anti-war activists in Chicago learn to chant “Death to Israel” and “Death to America” in Farsi.
Read more from The FP’s
@Olivia_Reingold
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If you don't need an ID to vote, you shouldn't need one to attend a meeting of OUR public servants. Brandon Johnson and progressives HATE democracy and freedom of speech
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Lol wut
HAPPENING NOW: Mayor Brandon Johnson joins the Lakeshore Redevelopment announcement at Soldier Field.
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This answer to whether Carlos Ramirez Rosa should remain part of Brandon Johnson’s leadership team is gaslighting 101.
He says he wants restorative justice for Carlos after making a Black woman “Feel like I was in the south again” but he won’t say what that is and doesn’t have
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There will be no press conference with Brandon Johnson and Kim Foxx.. There will be no statement from DSA cosplay socialists. Too busy cop bashing right now
A 4-year-old boy is in critical condition after a car he was riding in became caught in the crossfire between at least two gunmen engaged in a shootout on North Avenue this afternoon.
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This stinks of good old fashioned Chicago machine politics. Alderman Byron Sigcho Lopez, part of Brandon Johnson's leadership team, rewarding himself w/ the spoils of government while everyday suckers have one day to get into the city run lottery
#twill
Who needs Dolton Mayor Tiffany Heyward when you have Pilsen's NOT homegrown alder using city resources to redo the apron where they illegally park their Prius and Town & Country.
@ChicagoOIG
where are you? They don't pull permits and
@sigchofor25
retaliates against constituents
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Update: the alderman challaged these tickets and the alley parking ticket was dismissed but the parking within 15' of hydrant was upheld. Because he didn't pay the ticket it doubled to $300. There is now a notice of seizure bec there is $1560 in unpaid parking tickets on this car
This is what happens on
#JUNETEENTH2020
in the city of Chicago. Two $150 tickets totalling $300 within 12 minutes while I'm sitting in my very pro
#CPACNow
#BlackLivesMatter
car waiting for my wife after her doctors appointment in
@chicagosmayor
@AldReilly
's ward.
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This clip sums up the chaos and dysfunction of the Brandon Johnson administration.
Ald. Taliferro: when is the last time we talked
Deputy Mayor of Immigrants: We haven’t
The alderman learned on the way to this meeting his ward is
Will be housing migrants next week
#twill
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These numbers are wow, but not surprising
After eight months in office, only 21% of registered Chicago voters approve of Brandon Johnson’s performance as mayor
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The SPF 75 caucus
Earlier this weekend, our members wrote 500 postcards to encourage voters to VOTE YES for Ballot Question 1,
@BringChiHome
, on or before March 19th! Together, we will
#TaxTheRich
to build affordable housing for Chicago's working class.
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The Chicago city council members who voted NO on censuring Byron Sigcho Lopez two weeks ago emboldened him, now his group is chanting “Death to America” and “Death to Israel”
#twill
Just checking, but if you’re a mayor of a major American city trying to repair broken relations with the Jewish community, does it help when one of your key allies in city council shows up at events where the crowd chants “death to Israel”?
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The tragedy — and, let’s be frank, the outrage — is that the mayor of Chicago isn’t the one representing taxpayers in a battle with an unreasonable union. Instead, an unelected administrator has taken it upon himself to do the job the mayor should be doing. And Martinez’s reward
Editorial: Brandon Johnson wants to fire Pedro Martinez, Chicago taxpayers’ best friend?
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With the Bring Chicago Home Tax & Brandon Johnson's push to build more affordable housing, someone is going to get multi-million dollar contracts. This story has to do with that money.
Back in November and then a follow up in January, Tim Novak & Robert Herguth had a story on
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CTU sues taxpayers, the scumbag lawyers take the biggest cut and now they "donate" the money back to taxpayers and give Brandon Johnson a PR stunt. What a joke
The $350,000 in seed funding for Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson’s new effort to accelerate housing for migrants is coming from the law firm Fish Potter Bolaños.
“Potter” is Robin Potter, the mother of Chicago Teachers Union Vice President Jackson Potter. The union was Johnson’s
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@TheCruseman
This is basic politics 101 shit. If you want to get a tax increase, you gotta show voters you respect their money. You cannot tell me there isn't 20 million to be saved in a $17 billion budget.
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If these are the “solutions” Chicago teachers came up with, fire them all… This looks like something that would come out of an 8th grade class
Chicago Teachers Union President Stacy Davis Gates and Vice President Jackson Potter keep saying the school district is not doing enough to “partner” with CTU to get more money for their contract demands.
Below are CTU’s actual ideas for new revenue, taken from a newsletter sent
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The problem Brandon has is the people closest to him are hurting him the most... Stacy & Co. think Brandon is racking up "wins" ... They point to campaign promises... They are delivering to who they think elected Brandon Johnson instead of the people who actually did, which are
⬇️The analysis is off. He is both effective and efficient. He’s made good on a *series* of progressive campaign promises. (EFFECTIVE) He’s done it in 9 months. (EFFICIENT) I think the editorial board *disagrees* with the policies and have whiplash from the speed.
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BREAKING: Chicago's Mayor Brandon Johnson calls for a non-police response, kombucha, and a restorative peace circle. Those flights will have to wait
Anti-Israel protesters in Chicago are blocking roads leading into O’Hare Airport. People are having to walk to airport to make their flights.
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Actually I think I’m ready to call the race for EOB.
Okay… This will be a challenge for Harris… Took the Top 15 wards that have outstanding VBM Dem ballot. If those VBMs break the same way already counted votes did then EOB takes them 55 to Harris 45.
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Good thing Brandon Johnson fired one of the top public health doctors in the country
The front page of today's Chicago Tribune. Read the e-edition here:
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DSA clowns calling the entire Black caucus of Chicago aldermen "right wing" is hilarious. Carlos stepped down you scumbags
In Chicago, Mayor Brandon Johnson’s administration just suffered a major blow from city council’s right wing, which will likely hobble his ability to carry out his progressive agenda.
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Since CTU VP bought his home in Oct 2007, his property taxes are down 25%. Brandon Johnson property taxes are only up 5.9% since he bought in Dec 2009.
The migrant issue is only the tip of hypocrisy for the average Brandon Johnson "progressive" type.
They love migrants as long as they aren't in their backyard.
They love taxes as long as they aren't the ones paying them.
They love criminals as long as they aren't their victims.
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It now seems that multiple people in the Johnson Administration are now blaming US sanctions for Venezuela being a failed state. Going to the border and saying that will not end well for Johnson and his DSA cosplay socialists
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So which of us Whitney Young grads are going to do a response to Jackson Potters dumb af op-ed?
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This is from their 2022 IRS tax filings. CTU claims to the federal government & members their building is worth $25,000,000 but when it comes to property taxes they claim to Cook County the building is only worth $8,000,000. The Board of Review granted them a 40% reduction.
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NEW: The Cook County Assessor has granted a 13.5% reduction in CTU headquarters property tax assessment. They will now appeal to the Board of Review because they do not want to pay their fair share to fund CPS
#twill
Chicago Teachers Union seeks to reduce property tax bill for West Loop headquarters
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Gov Pritzker says there isn’t going to be any more state funding
CTU President: Well maybe Chicago would like to have a word with him
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pushing vaccine mandates may do more to kick shitty cops out than any other reform we've seen presented. I'm all for it.
From Chicago's police union re:
@chicagosmayor
announcement on vaccine mandate: "We are 100% opposed to MANDATORY vaccinations. We will fight any attempt by the city to force the issue on several points."
@wttw
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@DavidDTSS
When the principal at steinmetz high school (Hefs alma mater) threatened to close the school paper he donated the funds to keep it going
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Black aldermen most affected by gun violence: This is a useful tool that helps first responders reach victims in my community quicker
White alderman from wicker/logan: Let me tell you what is better for you and take this away and instead promise of investing in "root causes"
I support any and every violence prevention investment proven to be reliable and effective. ShotSpotter is neither of those things and I refuse to watch their lobbyists fool Chicago into more of a failed technology.
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@bailliekova
Same, my grandfather didn’t make it to 80, but he lived two blocks away in a studio on Sherwin Ave until he passed and loved Rogers park
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The reason Brandon Johnson can’t go 5 minutes without saying “Better, Safer, Stronger Chicago” is because he thinks we are all dumb DSA or working family idiots that can be brainwashed
Mayor Brandon Johnson is asked whether or not he plans on making changes to his summer safety strategy after 71 people were shot over the weekend and a 7 year old was shot and killed today in
#Chicago
.
He responds by saying that it's "unfortunate that we have people fighting my
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By pushing "neighborhood schools" Dave and CTU are pushing to make Whitney Young a predominately White school and its clear Dave is not from Chicago and doesn't know anything about WYHS history or is a complete liar.
Whitney Young High School has NEVER been a predominately
Chicago Public Schools is 10% white and 4% Asian but the selective enrollment schools you mentioned are predominantly white.
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NEW: Chicago Public schools are budgeting for Mayor Brandon Johnson to declare at least $305 million in TIF surplus next year. You know the same TIFs he said he would retire and use the money to pay for his $1 Billion bond the council just passed.
CPS gets 52% of every property
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@CPD1617Scanner
They were supposed to bid out the contract and didn’t for years. When they finally did, someone else won the bid, but the county changed the terms and these guys ended back up with it. It’s the most underreported insider corrupt contract I’ve seen
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Jaymal Green, Brandon Johnson, Kim Foxx all on the same side of something… best bet is to run as far away from that as possible
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I cannot say how dumb it is for a "Progressive" mayor to support expanding video gambling. In 5 years, these same people are going to be protesting that there are no gambling machines in rich white neighborhoods and only in Black and Brown neighborhoods.
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Other than raising property taxes beyond their already stratospheric level, where does Stacy Davis Gates think Martinez can secure more funding?
She has already callously answered this… She doesn’t care
Letters: CTU President Stacy Davis Gates has misplaced priorities
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Brandon Johnson is clueless. Really is. he has never worked a real job.
Professional teachers laugh at his only 3 years in a classroom. Nobody can tell you his responsibilities as a “union organizer” and he just held water for Preckwinkle at county board.
This is a better article. Offline I hear Johnson tried to save Rosa, wanted a peace circle. No seriously
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@stacydavisgates
Predictably unhinged. It is you who has some weird obsession. Byron is an elected official performing a public protest at the DNC. Byron attends flag burnings and workshops where they teach you to chant “death to America” in poor Farsi, not Austin
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Terrorism
12 Thai migrant workers killed. 11 Kidnapped
10 Nepali agricultural students killed
6 missing Filipino migrant workers, likely kidnapped
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NEW: The day of reckoning is nearing for CTU and the mayor. Exacerbating the costs when that moment arrives by having the country’s largest junk-bond issuer add yet more high-cost debt must not be allowed to happen.
... it’s more like taking out a high-interest loan from an
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Why is a dinky hotel on Cicero giving Mayor Brandon Johnson $10,000? Maybe because the manager listed is also president of a property management firm that makes millions from city contracts and would likely make millions more from any Bring Chicago Home tax.
Remember this tweet because Brandon Johnson is now doing the exact same thing and these political donors stand to make millions from the Bring Chicago Home tax
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More incompetence from Mayor Brandon Johnson's closest DSA allies. Ald. La Spata (1) said last month that 4 new public bathrooms were ready for installation. The reality is none of that is true.
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In the meantime, Johnson and Davis Gates ought to take stock of that 92-8 vote of no confidence. When Springfield feels compelled to halt your education agenda in its tracks, you should reflect on how better to persuade people outside your progressive echo chamber of the wisdom
Editorial: Springfield issues a 92-8 vote of no confidence in Brandon Johnson, Stacy Davis Gates
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