Mayoral Race Money
Well, we know who's going to be running commercials 24/7 shortly and who isn't garnering any support:
Mayor Brandon Johnson has just $813,125 in campaign cash on hand — compared to $18.3 million for Illinois Secretary of State Alexi Giannoulias — just a few months before deciding whether or not to seek a second term.
The latest fundraising reports filed with the Illinois State Board of Elections show the rookie mayor raised $176,036 and spent $192,675 in the first quarter of 2026, with a so-called “burn rate” that will be difficult to sustain.
During the same three-month period ending March 31, Giannoulias, who is a potential candidate for mayor, has been a fundraising juggernaut.
Alexi is used to dealing in millions of dollars, seeing as when he was working at Broadway Bank as the senior loan officer, he loaned two organized crime figures upwards of $20 million. And then when the bank went under, it cost taxpayers almost $400 million.
Coincidentally, Conehead's $813K is around 4% of Alexi's $18.3 million - almost matching Conehead's approval rating as decision day approaches for candidates to declare.
Conehead continues to burn bridges with the Machine, dissing a predecessor:
As former Mayor Rahm Emanuel revs up for a 2028 presidential bid, Mayor Brandon Johnson on Thursday described Emanuel’s eight years as mayor as “disqualifying.” Johnson did not identify Emanuel by name when he talked about the one Democrat in the crowded field of possible presidential contenders whom he would like to, as he put it, “x-out.”
But there was no doubt about whose potential presidential campaign Johnson was attacking, even before Emanuel has formally announced. “I have very deep concerns about the former mayor of the city of Chicago. What he did in Chicago — from school closures to privatization to austere budgets,” Johnson said during his monthly appearance on WBEZ-FM’s “Ask the Mayor” program before a live audience.
And throwing in with the CTU's efforts to completely burn all credibility (paywalled article):
Mayor Brandon Johnson said Wednesday that “May 1 is happening,” signaling his support for the nationwide day of protest as the Chicago Teachers Union continues to urge the school district to cancel classes so that students and staff can participate.
“We have an opportunity in this moment to push the narrative, not just at the federal level, but for Chicago and the state of Illinois to show up on behalf of working people,” said Johnson, a former CTU organizer and close ally of the union.
Commies gotta commie - because they certainly can't teach worth a shit.
Labels: city politics
posted by SCC at 12:05 AM
72 Comments:
Water cannons.
“ I have very deep concerns about the former mayor of the city of Chicago. What he did in Chicago..”
Yet zero mention of the McDonald shooting (attempted) cover-up? Especially from someone who ran on a black lies matter background.
I guess that’s rahm’s “third rail”.
Or mentioning his bastard kid.
As big a goof as Johnson is, he shows a little sense regarding Emanuel. The same Emanuel who fucked police officers who were about to retire out of their city paid hospitalization benefit.
Nick Shirley warns California bill could punish people trying to expose government fraud
Independent journalist Nick Shirley says the bill is designed to protect fraudsters, not workers
California State Assemblywoman Mia Bonta, D-Calif., the attorney general's wife, introduced AB 2624, which is titled "Privacy for Immigration Support Services Providers" or the "Stop Nick Shirley Act" by critics. It would expand existing safety and privacy laws for people working in immigration support services.
https://www.foxnews.com/media/nick-shirley-warns-california-bill-could-punish-people-trying-expose-government-fraud
I personally would like to see the "teen takeover" of a communist "CTU" protest downtown. I know where I won't be on May 1st if these thugs get the day off.
Your children are no longer your own - they belong to the Communist Teachers Union here.
Mayor Brandon Johnson said Wednesday that “May 1 is happening,” signaling his support for the nationwide day of protest as the Chicago Teachers Union continues to urge the school district to cancel classes so that ***students *** and staff can participate.
I got through CPS K-8 when it was relatively normal - but by graduation, we were expected to sing "We Shall Overcome" at the ceremony - after having seen our city burn.
...and we still needed a signed permission from our parents to even go on a field trip to tour a Chicago fireboat or the water filtration plant or 11th/State.
Did George Soros and Neville Roy Singham pay for all the "protest" signs again, through the incredible tangle of their NGOs?
Does CTU plan to provide milk to wash tear gas out of kids' eyes, and have skids of cinder blocks delivered to break up and hurl at police, a la antifa maniacs?
Keep your kids home and safe - and tell anyone who will listen why.
Johnson’s one term is just about over! I don’t like any of the names so far. They all come from the same circles.
Blow Job Johnson has more problems then he knows about ,First all these new city employees that he gave jobs to think they still on westside in parking lot drinking Gin and juice. BJ has flooded the airports with these bust outs and sure as shit NOW they drinking with the White folk at the airport bars getting that employee discount while wearing their ID's . Then there are the 3 ex high ranking bust outs that Blow Job let go. Problem is when they get a taste of that 160 grand a year for a do nothing job, they have no loyalty. So who is sitting with the FBI right now!! You guessed it 3 bust outs and some POS lawyer telling all the tails of how Blow Job Johnson has been taking all kinds of kick backs and side gifts that nobody suppose to know bout. If we get lucky this POS will be in cuffs by end of year!!
He should forgive the $19mm debt of city employees in return for campaign contributions. That's a quick 5mil right there...
May one is May day, a communist celebration. CTU always celebrates this. Now they want the students to have the day off to celebrate communism. They are indoctrinating the children and that must be stopped. Decertify CTU as a communist indoctrination service!
May Day is a Communist celebration! We are not giving CTU members a paid day off nor allowing the students to have a day off to celebrate Communism! Enough said.
Chicago Teachers Union is a terrorist organization.
Remember Laquan McDonald. Rahm ‘28!
When Johnson says “We have an opportunity in this moment to push the narrative” he is speaking code for wanting to spark a Marxist revolution with that planned riot. Wake up people! These assholes mean business!
Well being from CPS, BJ is a fucking dumb box of rocks. Remember the game show "Who's smarter than a fifth grader?" BJ tired out but lost miserably.
The US runs on the "kick the can" economy, why not invest 18mil to elect the next in the long line of candidates willing to enrich their supporters?
I went to a Chicago public school back in the 70's when CPS was still good but the teachers and CPS back then would NEVER allow this to happen. These far left, liberal teaches have destroyed the education system.
If Soros money wants to keep the current Useful Idiot in the mayors office, the money will magically appear.
And they’ll rig the election.
You only have the illusion of actually voting. If your vote counted you wouldn’t be allowed to cast it.
Godless Communists.
Let the lil bastards have off and for that mstter give them the rest if the school year off, they arent learning anything anyway . Who really cares ? Johnson held no one back why should anyone else . Cant fix stupid!!!!
Don't worry. The CTU wants to increase dues again. Conehead will have 10X the current campaign cash by decision day!
Remember when “Ask the Mayor” "Ask the Governor" and the like were on WBBM? Well, go to your leftist audience, I guess, though WBEZ is WBBM-lite!
Common sense is not that common, I guess.
Can someone on here do the math to calculate how much Fed money CPU is going to lose for the city to keep kids out for the day? Chicagos shit media certainly can't do the math.
Some enterprising lawyer should offer to sue the shithead mayor and his teachers union accomplices for failing to perform their duties. Make it a class action lawsuit, open to ALL students who are being kept out of schools. Parents should also sue for having radical political ideologies force fed to their kids. AND SUE THAT FUCKED UP UNION INTO OBLIVION WHEN DAMAGES ARE ASSESSED...
Knock knock who’s there Broadway Bank Broadway Bank who Broadway Bank wants its money back that’s who
They don't have to teach, they have DEI where businesses are forced to hire those not qualified.
That would destroy any chance of Pritzker becoming president, not like he has a chance anyway with all of his sanctuary city murders.
Well get ready, The CTU says CPS agreed to let them have the day off according to the liberal media. Trump needs to make sure that not a federal dime is spent on CPS.
sorry you loose, they wil get the day off with pay.
Exactly, close the schools and stop the funding, these kids will be stupid all their lives. Ever see some of these kids that attend classes, its scary that these idiots will be running the country in the future, thats why this country has NO future..Once Trump is gone, USA is again set for the final doom.
Conehead's legacy is to be biggest fool in town. He's been on the wrong side of every decision he has made. It will be interesting to see if any money shows up for his campaign since he already has an under-10 percent approval rating. But who are we to judge? Rumors are that Kamala Harris is ahead of Gavin Newsom in 2028. Polls say that she is leading the democratic ticket by over 10 points.
We are truly living in Bizzaro land.
The Chicago Public School system is a failed system and the only ones who benefit from this system are the adults. The teachers blame the parents and many people blame the students. However, if you look up the Mississippi Miracle , which has been copied by several Southern states, you will see that their approach on education has resulted in a very high percentage of students reading and using math at grade level, regardless of race or income level. The CTU is a radical, Marxist organization that is out to destroy any non-public education in this state with the help of Gov. JB.
I hope they give them may 1st off and they riot tear the loop apart and have multiple shootings and murders. Fingers crossed.
Or any mention of Rahm closing 50% of the city’s mental health clinics. There’s a direct line from that action to the boom in homeless shantytowns all over the city a dozen years ago, the Loop Punchers, & CTA trains carrying more turnstile-jumping crazies than ever before in my youth. The Migrants were just gasoline on Rahm’s fire.
Every single CPS/CTU employee needs to be fired. I don't want to hear about the good ones who are married to police and fire, screw them too. They enable this type of behavior.
Alexi is a white socialist, and a thief, and Greek. He is no better than any other far left candidate.
May Day actually started in Chicago way back in the 1880s, by people fighting to limit the work day to 8 hours. Not “Communists”, just common sense people pissed off.
Think about that next time you bitch about the city forcing 12s on CPD.
The way this all started is all the hood kids with zero parental support. The govt raises them in schools and jails. Unfortunately everyone else around them becomes collateral damage. We are 1 communitay.
F CTU Local 1. Sorry NOT sorry if anyone is married to a teacher. Their union is scum and if your "teacher" spouse / bf/gf goes and protests instead of teaches on 01 May they are POS as well.
All the information is there for people to read. The problem is most Americans like having their heads buried in the sand. They refuse to believe all the issues that are plaguing this country. The bigger problem is, the issues are getting worse and everyone will be forced to face them head on.
You could apply that same comment to every Democratic mayor for decades.
And the ones who had already retired.
In surprised Johnson hasn't complained that he's "disinvested" in.
Bradon Johnson is political ass wipe.
16 reasons his campaign is doomed.
Ghetto gonna Ghetto
Well, Conehead is an asshole. So we still have that
The Communists are winning. It is unbelievable to me as history clearly points how that political system ends for "the people" who support it. Slaves?
In a year from now we'll be complaining about the new person and how we never thought nobody could be worst than Johnson, just like with Lori. BTW Alexi doesn't stand a chance if he's running against any #1 or special interest person.
It didn't take long for the new school superintendent to roll over to the demands of the CTU. She first said no school day will be cancelled, but a "field trip" waving the communist flag on a school day with lunch and transportation paid for by the school system is OK. I thought the school system had money issues, but I guess I was wrong. They have money for the may day field trip and lunch.
Anyone running under the Communist banner (demonatic) is out to grab as much as they can without getting caught. It's the Chicago way. It's been passed down for years. Any entity (CTA CPS Teachers union) in regards to this city is shaking down the citizens for what evr they can get. The baton just keeps getting passed down without much of any interruption from the msm,states att office or the federal government.
Totally OT, but from see bs? Wow
https://www.cbsnews.com/chicago/news/chicago-inspector-general-report-uncollected-city-debt-chicago/
I'm sure that the yutes who have the day off to "protest for the workers" (???) won't stay at the protest - they have other activities that are more lucrative and equally destructive. Teachers sure aren't going to supervise them or keep them in line - it's a free day for them.
If these idiots get the day off and get to go out and protest, I am taking the day off. Either CU or medical. It doesn't matter to me. I won't be out there protecting their right to protest. If there is a counter protest, I may join them.
Yes!
It can’t get better. Next one will be worse. Look at the electorate.
conehead is one and done back on the short bus
Off Topic: 1st MASS shooting of the weekend at Pulaski and Maypole. Thanks Brandon, where are your violence reduction/gangbangers/parolees/political army.
…are you saying Alexi will torch City Hall for the insurance money to try & balance a budget?
Yep, you mention the closing of mental clinics by Rahm to a liberals & they'll cite you Reagan's dismantling on a federal level from decades ago. They like to gloss over that Dems wanted that, that they often cited cruelty of the facilities etc. The failure came in that the plan which was supposed to happen at a local ized level never came to fruition. Both Republican and Democrats fail to fund mental health. Republicans just don't and Democrats love to dole it out to NGOs where the money is burned thru quickly and never reaches the people its supposed to reach. Democrats like to create industrialized homeless and mental health systems for connected people. Can you imagine what the US would be like where the money actually got to where it was supposed to go? Instead, you have Democrats in California trying to make it illegal for a journalist to investigate fraud (Nick Shirley). You have Minnesota who defends the fraud. I'd have no problem paying taxes if I felt like it was actually making this country better, but it's not
Yes. He put us on Obamacare. $800 per month. $8000 deductible. That was in 2018 dollars.
Hijacked by looney left
CTU will be allowed to take kids out for field trip for community activities. Protests commie bastards
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So CTU's not funding Conehead again? LOL.
Conehead criticizing anyone for anything is laughable.
I still remember that snake’s comment the city isn’t in the healthcare insurance industry
POS
City Hall could use a little Greek lighting
what torch? greek lightning! random!
1009 am- thanks for the history lesson comrade
So, who in their right mind is going to shovel any money at conehead to run for another term? People that do, should not be in charge of any tax dollars. BJ's campaign should be suspended for lack of finance, or interest for that matter.
"Mayor " Brandon Johnson has been brought and paid for by a black woman....Stacy Davis Gates. Will she have to pay reparations?
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