'Stray Voltage' in Action?

Politically, when you want to really launch a devastating attack on an opponent, you don't usually do it yourself - you have someone do it for you, usually via leaked documents or studies or phone calls. Then you have the "media" run with the story, distracting from the main event while subtly planting alternative solutions or ideas in the public realm that otherwise would have been too uncomfortable to address.

It's a common Chicago Machine tool. Entire political careers have been built and run using it. Rahm used it during the Clinton administration and later with Sparklefarts. Axelrod was another expert. Sparklefarts himself became rather adept at it, trolling the GOP to great effect. 

We may have just seen O'Neill-Burke use it against Conehead via a subordinate:

• Mayor Brandon Johnson’s executive order targeting federal immigration agents for prosecution faced a devastating critique Friday from the Cook County State’s Attorney’s Office, which warned the mayor’s plan could sabotage criminal cases and inject politics into law enforcement decisions.

  In a two-page memo to staff, Yvette Loizon, Chief Assistant State’s Attorney for Policy and External Affairs, systematically dismantled key provisions of Johnson’s order, calling parts of it “wholly inappropriate” and warning it “jeopardizes our ability to effectively prosecute and secure convictions when federal agents have committed a crime.”

  The extraordinary rebuke came days after State’s Attorney Eileen O’Neill Burke publicly disputed Johnson’s claim that he “worked closely” with her office in drafting the order. Burke called the mayor’s assertion “not true” in an unusual social media statement posted within hours of Johnson’s announcement last weekend.

  Johnson’s office fired back, claiming it had “reviewed the language with the State’s Attorney’s Chief of Policy and made edits based on their feedback.” Friday’s memo raises questions about what edits, if any, were actually made.

  Loizon’s memo acknowledged that Burke “is deeply concerned” about immigration agents “who have been wreaking havoc in communities across the country and in our own neighborhoods.” She noted that Burke takes prosecution of criminal conduct by law enforcement seriously, but warned that “if a federal law enforcement agent commits a crime while on-duty, state and federal law limits the CCSAO’s ability to prosecute and secure a conviction, except in very narrow circumstances.”

  According to the memo, “The Mayor’s recent Executive Order introduces additional hurdles” to prosecution.

  The state’s attorney’s office identified a critical flaw in Johnson’s directive that the Chicago Police Department collect evidence of crimes by federal agents and refer those matters for prosecution “at the direction of the Mayor’s Office.”

  Loizon wrote that the mayor’s office is not part of the criminal charging process, and by inserting himself into the mix, Johnson taints a process that is supposed to be non-political. Anyone in the mayor’s office involved in reviewing evidence or making charging decisions would almost certainly find themselves called as witnesses by defense attorneys, she wrote.

We apologize for stealing such a huge chunk from CWB's reporting, but we wanted to convey the awesomeness of this rip job on Conehead. 

This is interesting on a number of levels. Remember, all democrats must support ILLEGAL ALIENS over US citizens and reflexively oppose everything Trump does. Conehead is following the script that has been placed in front of him - he's not smart enough to do anything else.

O'Neill-Burke wasn't Prickwrinkle choice for States Attorney. But Conehead had Prickwrinkle's backing for mayor along with the CTU money. And here's one of O'Neill-Burke's top people publicly roasting Conehead's position, publicly and meticulously and mercilessly, tying it into future Cook County court failures.

Prickwrinkle's Machine might have a flat tire....and it might be Conehead.