Brandon Johson, the mayor of Chicago, is now regarded as the city’s worst governor ever. His grade is 25 % for his work. He’s made opponents of the internet, the town council, work, management, and even the extreme left.
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The Chicago Teachers Union is the only organization that also stands behind him. In one of the most incredible displays of coalition strength in recent memory, the CTU elected Johnson.
Then comes the return. The CTU is negotiating a new contract that has a potential value of about$ 10 billion over the course of the agreement’s three-year term.  ,
CTU wants stipends, substantial pay raises, and further personnel, all of which fall under the traditional purview of bargaining. It also wants the city to make new housing, charge new taxes, develop innovative parking garages, conduct new environmental initiatives, divest pension funds from fossil fuels, completely fund infertility and abortion care for members, support weight-loss surgery and drugs such as Ozempic, add new members to the bargaining unit, offer complimentary CTA passes for all students and employees, among many other things.
Johnson gives the impression of being out of his degree. His press meetings are activities in grievance-mongering, a point never lost on Chicago Tribune artist Scott Stantis.
Scott Stantis, a artist for the Chicago Tribune, has some sharp art. photograph. twitter.com/GdoXJU62wb— LizaM ( @gotchatheregrin ) October 9, 2024
This is not a man charting a program; rather, it is a person reacting to the chaos that is occurring around him, much of which is his own fault. He is n’t building roads, but burning them”, wrote Chicago Sun-Times columnist Neil Steinberg.
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Johnson yelled at the writer at a press conference this week to ask if he really wanted to attend a Bears match in London this weekend, where everything is in disarray. It’s insulting. It is. The government traveled to Tokyo to entice businesses. And I’m going to London to get business”.
” And while I’m that, I’m going to root for the Chicago Bears”, he said a short time after.
Johnson is a pressure cooker of boiling gripe. One inquired about the disastrous cost of his proposal to take out a short-term, high-interest loan to pay for a new instructor commitment and a pension payment. His answer was to damn the” so-called financially responsible administrators” for “making the same quarrels” as antebellum slaves.
That payment is economically impossible. The$ 300 million loan would cost the city$ 700 million due to Chicago’s junk bond rating. And his efforts to push the loan led to the resignation of the whole Chicago school table as opposed to clinging to Johnson’s strong-arm techniques in an effort to remove Chicago Public School CEO Pedro Martinez, who had opposed his financially irresponsible program.
” I’m the mayor of Chicago, you all, I’m the mayor of Chicago”, Johnson repeats like a phrase, as if that’s enough of an argument for his misdeeds.
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In a letter to Johnson, The Chicago Tribune wrote a furious editor.  ,
Your governor of Chicago may not immediately dismiss any criticism of the legislator as racist. Being the mayor of Chicago does not mean that anyone who dares to question your activities should be seated it and accused of being some forgotten Confederacy. Investigators are unable to quickly respond when they are insulted.
Mr. Mayor, when you said,” I’m trying my best to keep calm for these last 15 times”, did it not happen to you that the same could be said of the people you serve?
The instructors will find their$ 10 billion deal. By choosing Johnson, they presently made the payment. Johnson’s new school board will make sure the$ 300 million loan goes through. Many Chicagoans are anxious to see how he and the city council will close the$ 1 billion budget gap without declaring bankruptcy, a ruse that many are.