Chicago Mayor Kicks Public Out of City Meeting After They Trash Him Over Illegal Aliens

Chicago Mayor Kicks Public Out of City Meeting After They Trash Him Over Illegal Aliens

Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson kicked out residents from the public city council meeting after they trashed him for spending too much money on illegal aliens and not doing enough to protect them.

It happened at the meeting where the city council passed Johnson’s budget. It didn’t include the $300 million proposed property tax.

But the budget didn’t do much else, including $165 million in taxes, fines, and fees.

A few aldermen expressed common sense when they noted that the plan “will necessitate even bigger tax hikes to account for even bigger deficits in the future.” I cannot believe it:

Those who remained in the “no” camp felt the reliance on fees and fines penalizes Chicago working families.

*Most of this budget is really being balanced with extra fees and taxes, and being balanced on the back of working families—and I don’t think that’s right,” Ald. Bill Conway (34th) said after the budget was passed.

Conway added that the ballooning of the city budget is bound to cause problems.

“Five years ago, this city had an $11 billion budget. Now it has a $17 billion budget, and that’s just not sustainable,” he said.

You know, I tried looking for information about the spectacle in local news outlets and…well, it’s lacking.

So I turn to Fox News:

The plan also adopts a $40 million short-term loan that allows the city to delay paying off its debt, a major point of criticism for many of the protesters.

“You caused all this money to go to illegal immigrants,” one resident told Johnson during the public comment period. “Anything that you all pass is not genuine.”

Another resident accused Johnson of failing to “protect the people of Chicago from invasion.”

“He wants to pull a $40 million line of credit and put the city in even more debt,” another resident said. “It’s your fault, because you gave half of the money to illegals.”

Look, I think the only way to save Illinois, which is governed by Chicago (let’s be realistic), is for the city to hit rock bottom. It’s too far gone.

It brightened my day to watch the below the videos, seeing people speaking up and wearing shirts that say, “Chicago Flips Red.”

Maybe, just maybe, there is hope that Chicago and Illinois will finally change for the better. I’m not getting my hopes up, though.

I also think this because the residents also blasted Johnson for hiring too many staffers and giving them sex-figure salaries.

Have people finally woken up to the corruption that has ruined the state? I hope:

Johnson also faced criticism over hiring too many staffers and paying them too much. Chicago reporter William Kelly told Fox News that Johnson has enlisted more than 100 staffers and each of them has a six-figure salary. He also argued many of the positions appear frivolous.

“The vice mayor, a guy named Alderman Burnett, convicted of bank robbery, armed robbery, spent time in jail, he’s getting paid in addition to his aldermanic salary almost half a mil to be ‘vice mayor,’ which essentially has no duties or responsibilities other than waiting to possibly become mayor if something were to happen to Mayor Johnson,” Kelly said.

It took Johnson over six weeks to pass his $17 billion spending plan. It barely passed, 27-23, on Monday.

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