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* Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson said this last night at the University of Chicago’s Institute of Politics…
My finance and my budget team has been working with the state around how we generate more revenue so that the evidence based funding model [for public schools] can be fully funded
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…
“They don’t reach out very often. And it seems like they don’t have good relationships in Springfield, in part because they don’t do the outreach that’s necessary,” Pritzker said. “I’ve always taken calls from the mayor….(and) he has my direct number.”
…Adding… Now he’s making threats about something that may never even happen…
Mayor Brandon Johnson's message to Illinois General Assembly on future of CTA president Dorval Carter:
“Any attempt to hold hostage the people of Chicago for anyone's political gain, we're certainly not going to acquiesce to those levels of constraints.” https://t.co/DWU88foFrG pic.twitter.com/WyNSKqzzDs
— Alice Yin (@byaliceyin) January 10, 2025
posted by Rich Miller
Friday, Jan 10, 25 @ 1:29 pm
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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.
Comment by Charles Edward Cheese Friday, Jan 10, 25 @ 1:34 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.
Comment by Just Me 2 Friday, Jan 10, 25 @ 1:38 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.
Comment by Maybe Friday, Jan 10, 25 @ 2:11 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.
Comment by Three Dimensional Checkers Friday, Jan 10, 25 @ 2:15 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.
Comment by Phineas Friday, Jan 10, 25 @ 2:16 pm
==Chicago Trump==
I considered this a bit until today. But my lord the similarities are becoming impossible to ignore.
Comment by VK Friday, Jan 10, 25 @ 2:25 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.
Comment by Roman Friday, Jan 10, 25 @ 2:26 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.”
Comment by Scooter Friday, Jan 10, 25 @ 2:35 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
Comment by Rich Miller Friday, Jan 10, 25 @ 2:37 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.
Comment by Alton Sinkhole Friday, Jan 10, 25 @ 2:57 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.
Comment by Alton Sinkhole Friday, Jan 10, 25 @ 2:58 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.
Comment by Dirty Red Friday, Jan 10, 25 @ 3:09 pm
Wait,didn’t Johnson campaign on firing Carter? Now he’s defending him?
Comment by Arsenal Friday, Jan 10, 25 @ 3:10 pm
The Mayor’s completely unwavering defense of Dorval Carter mystifies me.
Comment by I-55 Friday, Jan 10, 25 @ 3:42 pm