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KDdidit posted:Rough day for west Cook County peeps. Summit, McCook, and Lyons village offices had the FBI stop by. Getty in Lyons is a supreme dirtbag, his handpicked school board candidates turned my old grade school in D103 into a shitshow. Lmao anyone who has lived near those areas knows all three of those towns are odd. Hell, it's generally known as Scummit, although I suspect that also has a racial component since it has a large population of Latinos. But it is the home to the original El Famous and the far superior El Faro. McCook is shady as gently caress since it's population is tiny but it pulls in massive amounts of money because of all the industry. And Lyons has always been the low man on the totem pole of Riverside/Brookfield/Lyons trio of towns. Which is an little odd since I believe it was the original town in the area and founder of the township cause the high school in LaGrange is Lyons Township High School.
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Minto Took posted:I used to drive through McCook all the time and it was hilarious that surely more people worked in McCook than lived there. There absolutely are more people working in McCook than living there since the population is less than 300 people iirc.
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TMMadman posted:Lmao anyone who has lived near those areas knows all three of those towns are odd. Hell, it's generally known as Scummit, although I suspect that also has a racial component since it has a large population of Latinos. Ah man, I had forgotten about El Faro. I worked a short stint in Summit and that was the only good thing about the place.
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https://www.peoriapublicradio.org/post/embattled-tazewell-board-member-steps-down-pekin-ambucs-leadership#stream/0 Local Central Illinois dumbfuck who happens to be the president of the local AMBUCS was so angry about Greta Thunberg he decided to throw some ableist slurs at her that managed to insult her appearance, people with down syndrome and even Asians as well. Needless to say, this is not particularly compatible with being president of the local AMBUCS. Sadly it's evidently quite compatible with serving on the Tazewell County Board.
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The number of old white men throwing insults at a girl that cares about the planet shouldn't surprise me, but it does. Like there's no way to win that argument but they try anyway.
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nice to see PeKKKin hasn't changed
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Kinzinger is such a fuckin' dickweed
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I know Karla from my UU church where she's amazingly hard-working and doesn't take any poo poo from anyone. She organizes a Social Justice Fair every year here in Bloomington, she is activist as gently caress, and if you can vote for her, vote for her. https://www.wglt.org/post/democrat-karla-bailey-smith-announces-race-88th-house-district quote:Karla Bailey-Smith of Bloomington made her official 2020 campaign announcement Thursday in the race for Illinois’ 88th House District.
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It is the worst thing he's done. Millions potentially will die.
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Yeah but a gop congressman is generally okay if not excited at that prospect
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brugroffil posted:Yeah but a gop congressman is generally okay if not excited at that prospect Methinks Shimkus' polling is becoming worrisome. Who's running against him for the D's out there?
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Oracle posted:Methinks Shimkus' polling is becoming worrisome. Who's running against him for the D's out there? He announced last month that he is not running for re-election. That is why he is willing to criticize. As my Rep, I hope Trump bitches about him on Twitter and he is made to respond.
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https://twitter.com/tinasfon/status/1182637086828060673?s=21 I feel like JB could just get all his cousins to cut a check to the pension funds for a pretty small percentage of their net worth and we’d be not insignificantly better off
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Badger of Basra posted:https://twitter.com/tinasfon/status/1182637086828060673?s=21 According to Wikipedia, the difference between Illinois’ pension obligation and its pension funds is $129 billion. They could donate all of their wealth to the state of Illinois and Illinois would still have a budget problem.
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I'm not blaming workers for the bad deals that were brokered but the pension system as it is cannot be sustained. There's just no way. The shortfall is close to $20k per resident per year.
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Oh hey ACAB. Mayor Lightfoot Releases Records On Police 'Cover-Up' For Officer Who Killed Laquan McDonaldquote:Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot's administration Wednesday afternoon released thousands of pages of long-hidden records from the city's investigation of an alleged cover-up for Jason Van Dyke, the officer sent to prison for killing Laquan McDonald in 2014.
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She promised that she'd do it during the campaign (though she made a bunch of other promises that didn't pan out). That said, it makes her sticking with Eddie Johnson look pretty bad.
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The X-man cometh posted:I thought she was close to the police union, what happened to get her to do this? Read to the end of the article. A rule was changed that allowed the information to be released by the city council and another change about releasing cop records, both have the police union howling.
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Exelon CEO (former Com Ed CEO)has an abrupt retirement. All the news sources are speculating that her retirement is tied to the senator Sandoval probe. https://chicago.suntimes.com/platform/amp/business/2019/10/15/20916403/top-exelon-exec-retires-amid-federal-investigation
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Got to meet Rachel Ventura tonight, who's a DSA member on the Will County board and is now running to primary Bill "bad Dem" Foster in IL-11 It was awesome to hear someone's stump speech be Green New Deal and M4A If you have a few bucks to spare or live in her district, please help support purging the bad Dems https://www.rachelfventura.com/
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Stefanie Smith is running in IL-13 - I've gotten to talk to her a few times and she is pretty great. M4A, GND, and pro sex work decriminalization are my favorite highlights. Endorsed by at least one DSA chapter so far, and she showed up in Chicago for the CTU/SEIU73 strike yesterday. I'm a fan https://www.stefanie2020.com/
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IL-12 has two potential Dems and they both seem like sacrificial lambs. One's a 72 year old that wants policies "75% of people support" and the other is in finance. It's just territoriality ceded to white nationalists here.
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Apparently, some Republicans in Florida want Jim Oberweis to drop from IL-14 and run for a vacant safe-R seat in FL-19. On top of that, Rubio will be in Oak Brook for a fundraiser Friday with Oberweis. No GOP candidate has announced yet for FL-19, so maybe he's going to carpetbag his way to Florida to finally get a seat. https://www.politico.com/newsletter...pit-stop-487505
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Sailor Jerry posted:Apparently, some Republicans in Florida want Jim Oberweis to drop from IL-14 and run for a vacant safe-R seat in FL-19. On top of that, Rubio will be in Oak Brook for a fundraiser Friday with Oberweis. No GOP candidate has announced yet for FL-19, so maybe he's going to carpetbag his way to Florida to finally get a seat. If he's successful, that would be a sad day. It was always fun seeing him tilt at windmills for that senate seat he's always dreamed of.
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Chicago teachers strike is over. 16% over 5 years, $35 million to reduce class size, new staff positions by 2023 are the big hits. Making up 5 of the strike days by the end of the year and class resumes tomorrow.
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Badger of Basra posted:Saw this morning that Pritzker said he would veto it if it somehow passed. Pritzker has been pleasantly surprising me his whole term so far. In unrelated news our county clerk had to post to Facebook to tell people that no, there were no local or state elections today but he appreciates the enthusiasm as people were calling the office all day to see where they could go vote. 2020 gonna be wild y'all.
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Oracle posted:Pritzker has been pleasantly surprising me his whole term so far.
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Oracle posted:In unrelated news our county clerk had to post to Facebook to tell people that no, there were no local or state elections today but he appreciates the enthusiasm as people were calling the office all day to see where they could go vote. There was an election reminder on “last week tonight” so I imagine this happened a lot. I know where to check online, so at least I didn’t embarrass myself in public. Until now.
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