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Chicago Mayor Job Approval Drops to 15% While Top Aide Faces Racism, Misogyny, Sexual Harassment Complaints
Illinois Review ^ | November 24, 2024 | staff

Posted on 12/18/2024 7:02:57 PM PST by xxqqzz

A new poll commissioned by Democratic members of Chicago’s City Council shows embattled Mayor Brandon Johnson with an unprecedented 15 percent approval rating – the lowest of any mayor in history as his office faces scrutiny after his former top communications advisor is confronted with multiple complaints of racism, sexual harassment, misogyny and intimidation.

The poll also indicated that the mayor’s revised $150 million property tax increase proposal was dead on arrival and that 78 percent of Chicagoans would vote against their alderman if they supported Johnson’s latest tax increase.

A few weeks ago – in a stunning and unprecedented rebuke, the Chicago City Council rejected a $300 million property tax increase proposed by Mayor Johnson by a vote of 50-0 – leaving the mayor and his team humiliated and struggling to come up with alternative solutions to address the nearly $1 billion budget shortfall.

The mayor is in dire need of a solution to avoid having to lay off city workers, including police officers and firefighters as he struggles to find ways to fund his budget, but the city council were all in agreement: that he wasn’t going to fund his budget by increasing property taxes on a constituency that’s already hurting under the Biden-Harris economy.

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TOPICS: News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; US: Illinois
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His proposal to increase property taxes was defeated by the city council 50-0. This was needed because of a $200 million budget shortfall. The city spent $400 million on "migrants" this year, putting them up in fancy hotels, etc.
1 posted on 12/18/2024 7:02:57 PM PST by xxqqzz
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To: xxqqzz

And all at the expense of the taxpaying US citizens.


2 posted on 12/18/2024 7:03:46 PM PST by No name given ( Anonymous is who you’ll know me as)
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To: xxqqzz

The whole city must be full of racists.


3 posted on 12/18/2024 7:07:21 PM PST by Steely Tom ([Voter Fraud] == [Civil War])
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To: Steely Tom

“...this Negro, right here....”


4 posted on 12/18/2024 7:09:06 PM PST by gundog (It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were striking thirteen. )
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To: xxqqzz

15% approval?

His proposal to increase property taxes was defeated by the city council 50-0?


Sounds like they ought to start by deporting the Mayor.


5 posted on 12/18/2024 7:09:54 PM PST by The Spirit Of Allegiance (Public Employees: Honor Your Oaths! Defend the Constitution from Enemies--Foreign and Domestic!)
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To: Steely Tom

There were blacks showing up at a city council in red “Flop Chicago Red” t-shirts tearing into Johnson, mostly about the illegal aliens.


6 posted on 12/18/2024 7:10:35 PM PST by xxqqzz
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To: The Mayor

Nothing personal!


7 posted on 12/18/2024 7:11:02 PM PST by The Spirit Of Allegiance (Public Employees: Honor Your Oaths! Defend the Constitution from Enemies--Foreign and Domestic!)
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To: xxqqzz

They figured out that they could be replaced by much cheaper victims-card holders.


8 posted on 12/18/2024 7:12:14 PM PST by Steely Tom ([Voter Fraud] == [Civil War])
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To: xxqqzz

That’s 15% higher than he deserves. The guy is a dumpster fire of suck.


9 posted on 12/18/2024 7:13:16 PM PST by Bullish (Socialism is a weed that blooms into communism, the tyranny that strangles liberty.)
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To: xxqqzz

ChIraq has achieved ‘Rat Utopia Status.


10 posted on 12/18/2024 7:13:53 PM PST by Paladin2
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To: The Spirit Of Allegiance

I don’t know why anyone should be surprised by this. The total sum of his life’s experiences was that he taught school for 4 years and then became an organizer for the Chicago Teachers Union. And he’s black. The latter being the most important as evidenced in his predecessor, Groot.

Chicago, you get what you deserve.


11 posted on 12/18/2024 7:16:52 PM PST by technically right
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Told you nothing was going to change.

Democrat will democrat.

12 posted on 12/18/2024 7:18:05 PM PST by Harmless Teddy Bear ( Not my circus. Not my monkeys. But I can pick out the clowns at 100 yards.)
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To: The Spirit Of Allegiance

Why is it you would need 50 people on the city council that’s too many how many salaries are you paying right there? What are they being paid?


13 posted on 12/18/2024 7:20:10 PM PST by Captain Peter Blood
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I suppose that 15% are members of the teacher’s union and their families.....


14 posted on 12/18/2024 7:21:08 PM PST by proxy_user
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To: Captain Peter Blood

They get at least $130K/year, but in Chicago their incomes are probably mostly way higher.


15 posted on 12/18/2024 7:26:52 PM PST by xxqqzz
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To: Captain Peter Blood

50 people on the city council—

Sounds like on this one issue at least, they’re representing their constituents well.


16 posted on 12/18/2024 7:33:44 PM PST by The Spirit Of Allegiance (Public Employees: Honor Your Oaths! Defend the Constitution from Enemies--Foreign and Domestic!)
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The death spiral accelerates; it won’t be too long before Chitown will make Detroit look good.


17 posted on 12/18/2024 7:43:29 PM PST by Stosh
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To: The Spirit Of Allegiance

I think the Jawa had higher numbers.


18 posted on 12/18/2024 8:32:45 PM PST by DarrellZero
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To: Steely Tom

Obviously.


19 posted on 12/18/2024 8:42:11 PM PST by No name given ( Anonymous is who you’ll know me as)
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To: xxqqzz

BTTT


20 posted on 12/18/2024 8:50:37 PM PST by nopardons
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