Thanks Groot!!!

It's a toss-up of who was a more useless mayor - Conehead or Groot. 

In Conehead's temporary favor, he's only been there two years. groot had four years to royally f#$% up Chicago....and she's still costing the taxpayers money:

• Taxpayers will spend $15.5 million to compensate the investment team that paid $1.16 billion to lease Chicago parking meters, thanks to a risky pandemic-era scheme authorized by former Mayor Lori Lightfoot.

  As bitter a pill as that is to swallow for Chicagoans who despise the 75-year parking meter deal, it could have been a whole lot worse.

  Private investors from as far away as Abu Dhabi, who long ago recouped their investment and raked in $150.9 million more in 2023 alone, started out by seeking $322 million. An arbitrator recommended $120.7 million.

  The fact that Mayor Brandon Johnson’s administration managed to persuade Chicago Parking Meters LLC to accept $15.5 million, or just 12.8% of its original demand was a victory, albeit a pyrrhic one.

That's the trouble with Contracts - they're usually drawn up by highly educated lawyers. And when the money numbers top one billion dollars, the Contracts are drafted by super-highly educated lawyers and then run by a committee of people who actually spend time writing Contract Law and teaching it to other lawyers.

So when you get a mayor who was thinks she's smarter than those lawyers (all while claiming to have a giant penis) and decides to violate the terms of a pretty much air-tight financial Contract, the above result is that taxpayers, once again, get screwed over.

The fact that they settled for $15.5 million instead of the recommended $120.7 million can only be described as a "mercy f#@$"