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Mayor Johnson again claims to actively work with the state when no such work appears to exist (Updated)
Friday, Jan 10, 2025 - Posted by Rich Miller * Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson said this last night at the University of Chicago’s Institute of Politics…
I checked with the governor’s people earlier today, so they ran their traps and could find no evidence of the mayor’s latest claim. * As you’ll recall, Gov. JB Pritzker said earlier this week that the mayor had called him maybe five times since Johnson has been in office…
…Adding… Now he’s making threats about something that may never even happen…
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- Charles Edward Cheese - Friday, Jan 10, 25 @ 1:34 pm:
Chicago Trump strikes again, MBJ seems to have fully adopted the policy of just lie and insist it’s true.
I’m honestly not sure what is more poorly run as an organization at this point, this mayors office or the Bears.
- Just Me 2 - Friday, Jan 10, 25 @ 1:38 pm:
Notice how every time the Mayor talks about the need for more money it is always for teacher salaries.
There is no way the transit system gets more funding when the Mayor’s clients are only making three times what the average Chicagoan makes.
- Maybe - Friday, Jan 10, 25 @ 2:11 pm:
The most trite and overused saying in politics applies here.
“Elections have consequences”.
Until we insist on competence at every level of government, we get what we deserve.
- Three Dimensional Checkers - Friday, Jan 10, 25 @ 2:15 pm:
I’ll never understand what the thinking is at CTA. They just seem to hate their ridership. They don’t even try to address the obvious service, cleanliness, and safety problems in the system. No ideas, no solutions, even no attempts at ideas or solutions.
- Phineas - Friday, Jan 10, 25 @ 2:16 pm:
The City of Chicago is living with the consequences of a plurality primary model. Just imagine if we’d had ranked choice voting — doubtful Lightfoot or Johnson would have become Mayor.
- VK - Friday, Jan 10, 25 @ 2:25 pm:
==Chicago Trump==
I considered this a bit until today. But my lord the similarities are becoming impossible to ignore.
- Roman - Friday, Jan 10, 25 @ 2:26 pm:
CPS is two years from being totally stripped of mayoral control by function of statute. And the General Assembly may eliminate the CTA, or at least reduce its authority, this spring. The Incredibly Shrinking Mayor’s Office is playing out in front of our eyes. Proof of the current mayor’s and former mayor’s lack of game in Springfield.
- Scooter - Friday, Jan 10, 25 @ 2:35 pm:
Most criticism directed at Dorval Carter is warranted, but the general assembly is being shortsighted if he is the *only* northeastern IL transit agency head who might be shown the door in a bailout/reform/consolidation scenario. All of them are too entrenched in their own organizations’ culture of “that’s how we’ve always done it.”
- Rich Miller - Friday, Jan 10, 25 @ 2:37 pm:
===but the general assembly is being shortsighted if he is the *only* northeastern IL transit agency head who might be shown the door===
Literally nobody is talking about doing such a thing.
Stop making things up
- Alton Sinkhole - Friday, Jan 10, 25 @ 2:57 pm:
==I checked with the governor’s people earlier today, so they ran their traps and could find no evidence of the mayor’s latest claim.==
The fact they’re unwilling to even fake it to save the Mayor some credibility is telling.
I mean, obviously, they’re all sick of the Mayor’s admin, but they’re getting pretty open with it.
I wonder if/when it’ll fully boil over (Or has that already happened?).
I’ll hang up and listen.
- Alton Sinkhole - Friday, Jan 10, 25 @ 2:58 pm:
==Chicago Trump strikes again==
He’s more of a Rauner type to me. That’s not a compliment. Just different flavors of terrible executives.
- Dirty Red - Friday, Jan 10, 25 @ 3:09 pm:
Sir, with respect, the people at this Wendy’s already feel everybody is using them for political gain. Nobody believes you are working with Springfield because you have nothing to show for it. Like God, the people are exhausted of having both sides invoking them in this squabble. The people need results - not another speech from another reformer about being on their side.
It is passed put up or shut up time.
- Arsenal - Friday, Jan 10, 25 @ 3:10 pm:
Wait,didn’t Johnson campaign on firing Carter? Now he’s defending him?
- I-55 - Friday, Jan 10, 25 @ 3:42 pm:
The Mayor’s completely unwavering defense of Dorval Carter mystifies me.