Chicago Trump Voters Revolt Against Mayor Brandon Johnson After Proposed Tax Hike
“The feds need to address you! The DOJ needs to address you! And hopefully Donald Trump will address you”
Something is happening in Chicago. Inner city residents who voted for Trump seem to be empowered in new ways, and are speaking out the current leadership in the city. These people have clearly had it, and who can blame them?
After a failed attempt at a $300 million property tax hike by Mayor Brandon Johnson, he got an earful from members of the public.
FOX News reports:
Trump supporters rip Chicago mayor to his face just before City Council rejects his tax hike
Ahead of a Chicago City Council vote unanimously rejecting Mayor Brandon Johnson’s proposed $300 million property tax hike, local residents addressed the council and the mayor, criticizing Johnson to his face over trying to raise taxes while catering to illegal immigrants.
Among these angry locals were several supporters of President-elect Donald Trump, who, while wearing MAGA gear, gloated about how Trump’s victory means Johnson’s liberal policies – particularly those assisting illegal immigrants – will face a reckoning.
“The feds need to address you! The DOJ needs to address you! And hopefully Donald Trump will address you, because you’re gonna protect the undocumented, while you’re gonna allow for the citizens in Chicago suffer under your, what? Three percent?” Chicago resident Tyjuan Sims told the mayor on Thursday night…
Chicago residents have been angry with Johnson and other city officials for some time now, especially over policies allocating taxpayer money to benefit illegal immigrants that have flooded the city in recent years.
These folks are not playing around. Take a look:
NEW: Pissed off Chicago residents slam Mayor Brandon Johnson (D) to his face, celebrate President Trump's victory: pic.twitter.com/huzBIjF5vR
— End Wokeness (@EndWokeness) November 15, 2024
Wow. The people are not happy with the mayor's plan to defy the new president. Or the new property taxes. With voter ID, Illinois turns red in 2026/2028 https://t.co/a4UeJ11RJA
— Florida Man – World's Superhero (@danmmeyer) November 16, 2024
And about that proposed property tax hike that Brandon Johnson wanted? It failed in a city council vote 50 to zero.
BREAKING: Chicago City Council just struck down Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson's $300M property tax hike on a unanimous vote: 50-0. Stunning loss for a sitting mayor. Fantastic win for Chicagoans. https://t.co/pQ9n05XYse pic.twitter.com/01z1OTbEXO
— Austin Berg (@Austin__Berg) November 14, 2024
It really looks as though the people of Chicago have finally figured out that decades of one-party rule by Democrats have gotten them nowhere.
It began with the illegal immigration crisis but it is probably not going to end there.
Make Chicago great again.
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I doubt if the anger of Chicago’s residents signals an embrace of fiscal sanity. They don’t want higher taxes–but neither do they want to stop spending money the city doesn’t have. The vote is simply an indication that they want someone else to pay for their “free” stuff. Chicago’s bankrupt and they want the rest of Illinois to pay for their public sector waste. But Illinois is also bankrupt and doesn’t have the money to subsidize Chicago. And I sure as hell don’t want to pay for them. The bottom line is that Chicago’s public sector unions have run out of other people’s money. Time for the retirees to see their benefits cut. The unions had a chance to insist that their pensions be funded–but they chose instead to ask for higher (but unfunded” benefits. Zero sympathy for them. Why should I pay for Chicago’s fiscal ignorance?
I work in Chicago. The anger is real. They indeed don’t want higher taxes, and they see the payments made to support illegal aliens in the city as a prime cause of the problem.
Now yes, they want that money spent on themselves, but it’s a start 🙂
Yep. Bankrupt Blue Cites and Blue State Pension funds with chronically underfunded but increasingly lavish benefits are all gonna go rent seeking. ‘Oh, it’s for the poor little teacher or public employee, you must agree to help bail out decades of bad decisions by unions and d/prog governance or you are a bad person’.
“They don’t want higher taxes–but neither do they want to stop spending money the city doesn’t have.”
In particular, they grew up in an era when tax graft was putting money in their tribe’s pockets. Now it’s flowing to a brand new tribe, and taking money OUT of their pockets. Gee, no wonder they’re upset.
Should we be skeptical that big cities can be saved? Today, few seem to have a viable reason to exist
an interesting article in the WSJ.
https://www.wsj.com/us-news/rural-counties-new-illinois-california-1e1badb5?mod=hp_lead_pos9
Daddy’s,
Article is hidden behind a paywall.
How are the red rural counties planning to separate from the blue cities?
Accessible link for the WSJ article: https://archive.ph/kJk69
Don’t know what these voters are so upset about. They had a choice between the law and order candidate who would have been less sympathetic to illegal aliens and a Leftist, they chose the Leftist. Elections have consequences. Live with it.
Other than Cook County and Springfield (and perhaps a few other small enclaves like East St. Louis), Illinois is overwhelmingly Republican. Because the major population centers reliably vote Democrat, the state has remained blue for as long as I can remember. It is encouraging that more Illinoisans are coming to recognize the D’s, while promising everything, have for decades delivered nothing.
There are some who have voted D for so long that it’s in their DNA. Their children and their grandchildren will vote D for generations to come. Even if Abraham Lincoln was re-incarnated as a black man he could not free Chicago.
It’s really simple. If you want your garbage picked up & your streets plowed, you elect a D alderman. If you don’t care whether your ward receives public services (such as they are) you can elect an alderman who’s R or I.
The handwriting was on the wall in Chicago a few weeks before the election when several street gang chiefs publicly complained about the favorable treatment illegal immigrant gangs were getting from the city.
I was entirely dismayed when Hill Street Blues gave the head neighborhood thug an ex officio seat on the precinct’s steering committee. I couldn’t imagine that was even a thing. And this is even one step more ridiculous.
This is old news. Residents this summer were complaining about all the illegal aliens being housed in their neighborhoods and the impacts on them and their kids.
“The voters are revolting!”
Gooder and harder, Chicago. Gooder and harder.