Posted on 04/06/2023 9:13:12 AM PDT by Rummyfan
As PJ Media’s Rick Moran reported, the Chicago mayoral runoff on April 4 went the way of the teachers unions, which drove a massive turnout campaign for their anointed radical candidate:
The Chicago Teachers Union rode a massive turnout of its members and spent millions of dollars in union dues to win Chicago’s mayoral runoff.
Cook County Commissioner Brandon Johnson was a beneficiary of that union largesse. His name was on the ballot, along with former Chicago Public Schools CEO Paull Vallas. Johnson won by three points.
But no one doubts who is calling the shots in Chicago — the first major American city to be a wholly owned subsidiary of a teachers union.
The only quibble one might have with Rick’s article is that the State of Oregon has been a wholly owned subsidiary of the teachers unions and SEIU since the turn of the century, so Chicago may not be able to lay claim to first-in-the-nation status. His conclusion is, however, spot on: radical leftists defeated a moderate who wanted to rein in Chicago’s laughably awful violent crime and education failures.
One could go even further in what this portends for Chicago and other deep blue cities across America: they’ve devolved so far into cultish adherence to radical ideology that they have become modern-day Jonestowns...
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Amen!!
only one third voted
perhaps the other two thirds were too busy packing to vote
Send in Mrs. O’Leary’s cow!
Sounds nice, but its impossible.
Their woke programs, political power-schemes, massive spending and debt ultimately grows and infect the entire nation.
Americans love printed, Federal Reserve money for centrally-planned government, so what happens in Chicago (or NY or LA or Portland) does not stay there.
If you look at a picture of the 2 candidates you will immediately see why the communist won
Yes it is possible, we all know the classic definition of insanity is and thinking places like Chicago will turn it around are insane we need an “Atlas Shrugged” moment everyone with common sense should leave and let Chicago turn into an actual unbelievable disaster
Chicago has created a Generational disaster. They are running off major companies which are major employers which are also major tax payers. This will destroy the real estate both commercially and residential which will further erode the tax base. It will be very difficult to turn this around in the future, look at Detroit.
Negroes run the cities, and get "free" money from Biden's government.
Democrat run “Blue” cities and states are now in what’s known as Anarcho-tyranny dystopia. Seems the plan. The corrupt city Democrat “mafia” control the election mechanisms thus can never be voted out. Are the people in these cities nuts or have they essentially lost their right to vote? It’s like everybody gets to cast a ballot, but the votes have already been counted.
Anarcho-tyranny: is a when the government suppresses the innocent (tyranny) yet refuses to take any action whatsoever against people who are actually guilty of committing crimes (anarchy). Law enforcement is not for public safety but to keep a political class in power.
Samuel T. Francis described it as the following,
“This condition, which in some of my columns I have called “anarcho-tyranny,” is the combination of oppressive government power against the innocent and the law-abiding and, simultaneously, a grotesque paralysis of the ability or the will to use that power to carry out basic public duties such as protection or public safety. And, it is characteristic of anarcho-tyranny that it not only fails to punish criminals and enforce legitimate order but also criminalizes the innocent and political opponents.”
Yes. Secession now.
Are the dems cheating in Chi or do they not need to? Is this result for real?
The Dems don’t need to cheat in Chicago; the only voters they fear are the middle- and working-class Latinos and the working class whites in the Northwest and Southwest sides of the city who together cannot cobble a majority. The black population, which suffers the most from misgovernment, lack of policing, and horrendous schools orchestrated by the communist teachers’ union, still votes 90 percent plus for any Dem who is put forward; they are joined by the lakefront liberals, who are quite numerous, live in a dream world and don’t realize or don’t care that they are voting themselves into oblivion. I commuted by air to the city for many years; it was beautiful and safe back then, with an expanding Loop area, high end shops for a mile on Michigan Avenue, and some of the world’s best restaurants. I returned a year or so ago and the downtown around the Sears Tower was a ghost town at midmorning on a business day, the Magnificent Mile is a third empty, some top restaurants have closed and now, it will get much worse.
“...that they have become modern-day Jonestowns...”
Let the mass suicide begin!😎
“perhaps the other two thirds were too busy packing to vote”
Perhaps the other two thirds know that their votes won’t be counted anyway if they vote “the wrong way”.
When will PJ and other writers criticize the White Chicago neighborhoods for staying home and not voting?
If the working class white voters in Mt. Greenwood and the 10th Ward showed up to vote, the Communist would have lost.
And while we’re at it, let’s send them some Koolaid.
Actually I live in Illinois and I work on an election integrity team. Illinois has 150 ways to cheat. One of the REAL scary ones WAS REPORTED on 1 year ago, and of course we have not heard about any resolution. USP office Universal keys are on the Black Market being sold for 7 thousand dollars a piece. GOT Ballots?
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