Groot's Reichstag Fire

Blue state tyrants are gathering power:

• Mayor Lori Lightfoot was accused Thursday of using the coronavirus pandemic as an excuse to consolidate power.
  
  One day before the City Council is scheduled to meet again to consider granting Lightfoot expanded spending and contracting authority for the duration of the public health crisis, a handful of aldermen and community leaders tried to drum up opposition.
  
  They argued the mayor has no right to decide on her own how hundreds of millions of federal stimulus dollars should be spent.
  
  Lightfoot has argued that funding from the so-called CARES Act is “specifically designed to pay for costs incurred because of the COVID-19 crisis” and that “long-standing issues” like reducing homelessness are not eligible for reimbursement.

While we don't trust aldercreatures any farther than we can throw them, Groot needs oversight. That's the way it's supposed to work, but that doesn't seem to be happening locally at the moment and certainly not statewide:

• The stay-at-home order in Illinois that now runs until at least May 30 will require people to cover their faces in most public settings but will also allow some businesses and state parks to reopen and free golfers to get back to the links.
  
  It will also permit hospitals to again offer some types of elective surgeries, giving relief to patients whose procedures had been put on hold because of the pandemic.

Anyone remember any legislative vote granting extensions of the thirty-day Emergency Powers? And all of the sudden Elective Surgery is "essential"? Or is it that Putzker needs political donations from hospitals that are (A) bleeding money and (B) about to start laying off medical staff, which won't exactly jibe with the narrative that they're heroes (which they are), but you don't lay off heroes when there's a pandemic.