Posted on 09/25/2025 6:52:33 AM PDT by PBRCat
“The Far Left that has been ushered into office under Toni Preckwinkle’s leadership has been conducting lots of social experiments that… are very expensive. They’re hard for us to afford, and we’re not even sure if there’s any kind of return on investment.”
The most glaring example Reilly cited was Preckwinkle’s decision to back her former chief of staff Kim Foxx as state’s attorney and help Foxx win a second term.
“We saw public safety crumble across Cook County on Kim Foxx’s watch. Kim was there to implement Toni’s policies which were, frankly, charge fewer people with crimes and let’s do our best to empty out the Cook County Jail,” said Reilly. “We had what turned out to be a revolving door policy where the same criminals were being arrested and re-arrested week in and week out. That was an absolute failure.”
Reilly cited Johnson as another example. He was “plucked from obscurity” by Preckwinkle to fill a seat on the Cook County Board, then catapulted into the mayor’s office when Preckwinkle and her allies in the Chicago Teachers Union “moved mountains to get him elected,” Reilly said.
“I would argue that Mayor Johnson has been the worst mayor we’ve seen in recent history by a long shot,” Reilly said.
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Is this Cook County, IL, or some other Cook County?
This Reilly person will be branded as a heretic. It seems Chicagoans love their far left politics, regardless of the pain it brings.
Yes, Cook Co. in Illinois. Preckwinkle has been involved in politics there for many decades now. She’s a light-skinned black woman, not at all attractive, who got her unique surname — Preckwinkle — from her Jewish husband, Zeus Preckwinkle. They’ve since divorced.
Like Barack Obama, Preckwinkle is a carpetbagger who moved to Illinois before securing an elected political office. She was raised in Minnesota.
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