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Bird in a Blender posted:Luis Gutierriez not running again in the 4th district. Chuy Garcia expected to run to replace him, and I would say he has a pretty good chance. Chuy is a lot like Luis I feel, hell I wouldn't even mind Chuy being in Congress for a little bit and trying to make another stab at mayor or even governor depending on who we have in each spot. Finally my gang tag is relevant again.
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New Chicago resident here and I'm wondering if y'all could answer some questions I had based on this story: https://chicago.suntimes.com/city-hall/2019/5/17/18629590/lori-lightfoot-chicago-city-council-committee-leadership 1) Does the Mayor get to pick Committee chairs, or is she just saying she wants these people and then the Council is going to vote for them because she's the Mayor and they do what she says? 2) What's a floor leader? 3) Is it common to be as explicit as they are being about how chairs are rewards for support (especially with Waguespack, at the end of the story)? e: I just noticed my tag, which I got in 2015 while living in Texas to piss off someone in the D&D chat thread who really liked Rahm
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May 17, 2019 19:19
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I didn’t see if y’all talked about this but the draft capital bill is out and the prescription is MOAR ROADS https://twitter.com/yfreemark/status/1129449751961690112?s=21 Very depressing.
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May 19, 2019 21:01
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Volkerball posted:Well how else are politicians going to give kick backs to contractors who supported them? Have them build trains instead!
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May 19, 2019 22:24
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Did they pass the rate plan too or is that still up for debate?
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May 27, 2019 23:33
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Seems like the rates aren’t needed but they want to pass the rates so that people can’t scaremonger about what the rates will be.
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May 28, 2019 15:08
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How often does the Illinois legislature meet and for how long? I keep seeing stories that say the last day of the session is Friday but I can't figure out when they'd be back. I'm coming from Texas where they only meet once every two years, so if they don't get something done it's basically dead til after the next election. e: also Capitol Fax's website really slows down my computer and I can't figure out why because their website looks like trash Badger of Basra fucked around with this message at 00:25 on May 29, 2019 |
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May 29, 2019 00:19
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Listen if the billionaire wants to bribe some people to vote for a progressive income tax I'm fine with that
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May 30, 2019 04:06
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https://twitter.com/jmetr22b/status/1134235150290706433 e: also Lightfoot says he should resign (I am surprised she hadn't said this already)
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May 31, 2019 01:34
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Republican solutions to the budget situation are....a bunch of tax cuts https://twitter.com/AmandaVinicky/status/1134637470077898752
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Jun 1, 2019 03:23
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Also I tried to call my state rep and state senator to tell them to shift money in the capital bill from roads to public transit. I had to leave a message for my senator, but someone picked up in my rep's office. I told them my spiel and then asked if they needed my address or name or anything and they were like "nope thanks, bye!" Very weird.
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Anyone have a good roundup of what got voted on today? It seems like a lot, and some of it might even be good? https://twitter.com/WillGuzzardi/status/1134976002256461826 Looks like my calls worked! I think that's an extra $2 billion to transit compared to the original. Figures from the original were $28.6 billion for transportation, with $3.4 billion of that for transit. $10 billion or so was for *new* roads and bridges. So guess they cut out a lot of that road money. Badger of Basra fucked around with this message at 02:49 on Jun 2, 2019 |
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Jun 2, 2019 02:44
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Tribune story today says Illinois passed a reverse version of SB4 in Texas - that law required police departments to cooperate with ICE. The Legislature here passed one prohibiting cooperation agreements with ICE. Seems like a big deal and also good, I’m surprised that it didn’t get more press.
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Jun 4, 2019 15:44
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https://twitter.com/ad_quig/status/1138160471939473409?s=21 Hearing on the fair scheduling ordinance today and the mayor showed up (to listen, not to talk) which is apparently not common! This ordinance is already sponsored by 26 aldermen so if she okays it it’ll probably pass.
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Jun 11, 2019 17:38
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I called my congressman (Quigley) earlier today to tell him to vote against the border funding and I checked, and he did vote against it! Neat!
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Jun 28, 2019 04:01
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Seems insanely easy to speed less than 26 mph over the speed limit, honestly
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Jun 30, 2019 19:10
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https://twitter.com/danlipinski/status/1146194817266925569?s=21 Please donate to Marie Newman
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Volkerball posted:I wonder why lol. That's a hell of a hot take. https://www.governing.com/week-in-finance/gov-taxpayers-10-states-give-more-feds-than-get-back.html 
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Aug 9, 2019 03:27
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Bird in a Blender posted:So Chicago, hosed or super hosed? I was not able to watch Lightfoot's speech last night. $838 million budget deficit, so every so slightly less hosed than people were expecting. She mainly said the various things she is considering but a lot of them depend on the state giving us the power to do the thing (like tax services, or fix the casino plan). Property tax is still on the table if none of those things work out.
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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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Saw this morning that Pritzker said he would veto it if it somehow passed.
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KDdidit posted:https://wgntv.com/2019/11/14/illinois-senate-president-john-cullerton-to-retire-in-january/ So when is the FBI raiding his office
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I can’t believe y’all have such strong opinions about this
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brugroffil posted:Burbonus I refuse to believe this one
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https://twitter.com/marie4congress/status/1212817472266653697?s=21 Donate to Marie Newman plz
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Cattail Prophet posted:Alternatively, just cut out literally only Chicago instead of all of Cook county and it would probably work out. Only about half the county actually lives in Chicago proper. Plus, the downstate morons are probably clueless enough that they'd go along with it! I love the idea that people would be flocking to downstate Illinois if only it weren't for the taxes.
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I’m tired of the moochers in *squints* Fulton?? County leeching off my tax dollars
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Feb 2, 2020 23:45
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TMMadman posted:I was doing some looking yesterday and I can't loving believe that Missouri has a population of just over 6 million when their two biggest cities: Kansas City and St. Louis have just less than 500,000 people and just over 300,000 people respectively. In fact their top 10 cities have less than 1.5 million people combined. Yeah I think St Louis on the MO side is a tiny central city but there are like a million little suburb towns right next to it because white flight people don’t want to share a government or something.
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https://twitter.com/Suntimes/status/1225789062713311233?s=20 I’m kinda surprised this is only just now happening because I assume this probably happened every other year too.
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Sen. Rod Blagojevich (R-IN)
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https://twitter.com/chicagotribune/status/1230309606955659264?s=20 Call your state reps/senators and tell them this is good! There was a similar set of bills in NJ (or possibly CA?) and it died because they got scared by the deluge of calls from crazy people.
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Feb 20, 2020 16:40
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Popete posted:What are peoples thoughts on the States Attorney race? I have my doubts about Kim Foxx but I know nothing about the other candidates. Bill Conway is some billionares son, Mike Fioretti is idk just a guy who runs for everything all the time and Donna Moore I have zero clue who she is. Conway being “self” funded by his dad really turns me off and Fioretti was endorsed by the FOP so I’m sticking with Foxx.
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Mar 1, 2020 18:41
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Oh I thought they were talking about reducing runoff into the sewers so you have less overflows. I know people are also trying to do that, disconnecting downspouts and planting more etc.
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Digital Jedi posted:Discussing with my dad last night about the election (even though its on the Nov ballot) and he kept bringing up a point on if the Graduated Income Tax Amendment were to past the IL constitution would be open to any change moving forward for some period of time. This doesn't make that much sense to me how one change allows for anything else to be change/proposed to be changed. It would be open to any change in the same way that it was before in that the legislature would have to pass something and then we’d all have to vote on it.
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Mar 12, 2020 13:36
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Bird in a Blender posted:Maybe I'm being naive, but is there really that much of a threat in the rural counties? Seems like it would make more sense to just close the handful of counties with urban/suburban areas that would be most at risk. In terms of spread maybe not but if an elderly person two hours away from the nearest hospital gets seriously ill they’re probably hosed.
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I like how Lightfoot keeps trying to not do stuff and JB says lol no
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Mar 15, 2020 21:45
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https://twitter.com/natashakorecki/status/1239283830957146112?s=20 FYI if you or anyone you know is in need.
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Popete posted:It's really bizarre that our billionaire governor who looks like a comic book evil villain is more progressive and proactive than Lightfoot. I wish he could be mayor too 
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Also I would encourage all of y’all to call your reps and senators and tell them to vote for real paid sick leave and other relief instead of the half measures that passed the House.
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