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posted by Isabel Miller
Tuesday, Oct 29, 24 @ 7:46 am

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Since the Cubs’ historic World Series win in 2016 pushed us into the darkest timeline, maybe the Sox’ historically terrible season will push us back into a better timeline?

Comment by Suburban Mom Tuesday, Oct 29, 24 @ 8:48 am
I’m eager to see how Mayor Johnson will spin backtracking on his promise to not raise property taxes as being either the IL legislatures, Pritzkers, the medias, journalists, evil bankers, or the confederacy’s fault.

Comment by Charles Edward Cheese Tuesday, Oct 29, 24 @ 8:53 am
Down south Terri Bryant is still making the claims about IDOC’s “failure” to protect COs who come down with these mystery illnesses in a softball interview with WJPF’s Tom Miller.

Miller and Bryant also take at face value the McHenry Co. SA’s erroneous claims about the SAFE-T act.

I decided to ask her about it on her Facebook, specifically about why the COs symptoms seem to correlate closer to that of a panic attack than a drug overdose, also about the mail staff not being sick apparently, and the medical studies done which show overdoses through breathing or dermal contact would require a lot of fentanyl certainly enough to be detected one would think.

I left the SAFE-T act questions for another time, but plan to ask her about that as well.

Here is the link to her interview with WJPF: https://www.wjpf.com/episode/newsradio-wjpf-interview-with-terri-bryant-october-28-2024/

Comment by Will Colquhoun Tuesday, Oct 29, 24 @ 8:55 am
Voted early yesterday evening including my vote to not retain Thomas Cunnington in the circuit court 21st judicial circuit after his ruling to try to take down the SAFE-T Act. No doubt he’ll probably be retained because judges are almost always retained but it still felt good to vote against his retention.

Comment by Aaron B Tuesday, Oct 29, 24 @ 9:09 am
…aaaaaand she deleted my questions, it appears.

Are there any lawyers which can comment on the legality of a public official deleting constituents’ questions on their public-facing social media? (Yes, her page is listed as “Government Official” so it’s not her personal page)

Comment by Will Colquhoun Tuesday, Oct 29, 24 @ 9:29 am
@ Will Colquhoun -

Here’s a good explanation of the Supreme Court ruling in Lindke v. Freed: https://www.lewisrice.com/publications/supreme-court-clarifies-when-government-officials-social-media-posts-are-state-action/

Comment by JoanP Tuesday, Oct 29, 24 @ 9:37 am
@Joan

So I see this: “A school board president may have customary authority to speak for the school district when announcing a districtwide snow day, but a municipal sanitation worker likely cannot speak for the city when discussing a new ordinance about parking fees that the sanitation department does not enforce or apply.”

Terri Bryant is a state senator who used to be an IDOC employeee, and she speaks about IDOC policies on her public-facing social media. Now, she does not have authority over IDOC but am I, a constituent, not entitled to ask her questions about the things *she herself* is speaking on *as a government official* or does the fact that she has no real authority mean she can delete questions willy-nilly?

Thanks in advance, I’d like to not let her get away with this if I can help it.

Comment by Will Colquhoun Tuesday, Oct 29, 24 @ 9:52 am
@ Charles Edward Cheese. I believe you will find that the raise in property taxes is the fault of Richard Nixon

Comment by DuPage Saint Tuesday, Oct 29, 24 @ 10:10 am
“… is the fault of Richard Nixon[.]”

Thought is was Ronald Reagan’s fault …

Comment by Anyone Remember Tuesday, Oct 29, 24 @ 10:39 am
@ Will Colquhoun -

I’m sorry, but I don’t know the answer to that.

Comment by JoanP Tuesday, Oct 29, 24 @ 11:12 am
The New York Times has an interesting article and the mayor and CTU. With quotes like “But in the view of Mr. Johnson and his close ally — the Chicago Teachers Union president, Stacy Davis Gates, another former social studies teacher — fewer students should not mean fewer schools.” They, like most of the sane, do not agree with the mayor and his tactics.

Comment by Lurker Tuesday, Oct 29, 24 @ 12:46 pm