The CTU Bears?
As the Bears continue playing the Indiana card against Illinois lawmakers:
Illinois hopes to take the lead over Indiana in the Chicago Bears stadium battle with a new proposal that would give the NFL team property tax certainty while also providing a statewide property tax relief sweetener.
State Rep. Kam Buckner, D-Chicago, plans to brief Illinois House Democrats on the new amendment Tuesday. The PILOT measure, shorthand for payment in lieu of taxes, would allow the Bears to renegotiate their property taxes with Arlington Heights. The property tax relief element, a new addition to stadium-related legislation in Springfield, is essential in getting support from lawmakers outside of Chicago, including Republicans.
Guess who is injecting themselves into the debate?
Illinois lawmakers face a pivotal week as the Chicago Bears weigh whether to flee to Hammond, Indiana, and now prospects for state legislation might have another hurdle.
Multiple legislative sources confirmed to Fox Chicago that the Illinois Federation of Teachers (IFT), led by President Stacy Davis Gates, has lobbied to put language in the bill that would be more favorable to school districts. Gates is also the president of the Chicago Teachers Union.
Another legislative source said the IFT is "actively lobbying against the bill."
As someone speculated, a largish portion of the Arlington Heights Bears revenue generating would go to the already generously funded Arlington Heights school district, depriving the CTU - which isn't in the business of actually educating children - of their portion of the graft.
But don't worry - the CTU will just maximize the property tax increases again like they've done for the past few decades.
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posted by SCC at 12:07 AM
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Also likely extorting for a number of their own luxury
Suites..
So what is the score of campaign contributions made to each legislator?
Another example of a political action involving extortion.
The Bears would be idiots to trust Illinois politicians. The could change the laws to what ever they want after the stadium is built. Smart money would just get a good deal in Indiana and leave.
The CTU is NOT in the business of teaching students. It’s a UNION lobbying for Chicago teachers. CTU does not train its members to teach - the only training CTU support is activism.
#FCTU
Do everyone a favor and relocate to Indiana
So sick of this drama. No one will attend games anymore anyway. No matter where a new stadium is built this state.
Everyone who can afford tickets is fleeing anyway. All the public assaults, crime, and lunatic nonsense, teen takeovr,s, corruption and on and on is overwhelming.
Another tale of woe, one of many from the dying City of Chicago.
If the teachers can't have it, they crap on it.
Arlington Heights has a good start on the needed infrastructure, sewer, water, power, 290 exit, rail stop... $$$
And far enough from the city to slow some of the riffraff.
Perhaps Ms Gates believes it would be good for her Indiana property value?
ah yes, those Chicago teachers sure do know their math when it comes to finding ways to steal more money for themselves but know nothing when trying to teach the students
And the Mayor and his 50 thieves will support them.
Oh yea, poor CTU cry babies..hope the Bears fuck them good!!!!
Is the CTU going to ask CPS for another day of ACTION, to cancel classes in order to protest over the possible Bears move?? Fuck them already.
From a strictly business standpoint the BEARS would be foolish to sty in Illinois
Any way we can get the CTU and all its members to relocate to Indiana? Then we can build a proper school system and hire professional teachers.
The new Bears stadium will be privately funded and that will call for almost 200 million in annual property taxes, that is why the Bears are holding out. I have an acquaintance who is a lobbyist in Springfield. He told me that the president of CTU is not well liked in Springfield and has little influence. So lets see how this plays out. The NFL is also involved and the Bears cannot move to Indiana without their permission. The decision is very near. I think they will head to Arlington .
Stay in your lane, CTU.
If you watch the NFL then you are part of the problem.
Took the words outta my mouth and agree
No one care where the Bears play anymore. This story has been overplayed. And now that the teacher's union is involved somehow, I no longer trust that the outcome will be equitable for anyone except the Bears and Fatass. Maybe he brought in the schoolteachers because now they can say "that it is all for the children" This deal has stink written all over it now.
100000%
Without lube
and any day now the ctu will start to complain the bears are racist for taking away all that tax money from the inner city yoots
Correct on all counts.
Arlington Heights school district: a district that actually educates students
The Democrats keep chanting about "tax the rich" and make them pay their "fair share." Yet, they want to give a profitable business worth billions a tax break. Shouldn't they in keeping with their party line "tax the rich" actually raise taxes on the Bears?
This has to be the last straw. McCaskeys would be crazy to deal with this insanity when Indiana is offering them a free stadium with no strings attached.
Funny that Stacy gets a homestead exemption in Indiana even though she allegedly lives in Illinois. Maybe she's angling for season tickets?
Fuck the Bears and Double Fuck McCaskey! Let the cocksucker pay his property taxes like the rest of us!
Well said, they should get raises based on test scores.After looking at Chicago test scores, most people would agree they should be receiving a major cut, not a raise.
I do
I am so tired hearing about the Bears and their constant bullshit of trying to get more money for themselves. Fuck the Bears, go to another state and leave us alone.
Karen Lewis with brain cancer was smarter than Stacy Gates
I live in Arlington Hts.
The local school district has already shown themselves to be run by money-grubbing retards.
The team owns the property or some entity of theirs does at any rate.
It’s currently vacant land that will sooner vs later be taxed as vacant.
The team can afford to just leave it vacant as a tax dodge or potentially donate it to a nonprofit and take the $180m write off. Then it stays off the tax rolls permanently.
Hell, if they’re smart, they’ll set that up themselves, direct the money the Bears pay to the nonprofit for the rental of the stadium and the facilities and then all of that money could fund another version of Maryville while the state, locals and county would have to be content with sales tax.
stacy davis gates is pure ghetto
Mike Vrabel addressed the ongoing photo scandal involving Dianna Russini during a Patriots press conference on Tuesday, April 21
Vrabel thanked media for their "patience" and said he's had "some difficult conversations" with family, friends and colleagues since the photos were published
Vrabel said he doesn't want the scandal to become a distraction for the team
Patriots head coach Mike Vrabel has broken his silence on the rumors surrounding his relationship with fired NFL reporter Dianna Russini.
Vrabel, 50, spoke to media during a press conference on Tuesday, April 21, where he addressed the photos of him and Russini — who are both married to other people — hugging and holding hands at a luxury hotel in Arizona for the first time since they were published in the New York Post two weeks earlier.
coach Vrabel i love boston n i like the patriots but you need to talk to our cpd exempt command staff / active-retired
do not play around n keep your johnson inside your johnson
Don’t worry Potter is going to bring down the union and Stacy
gates.He is the canary in the room.Stay tuned coming soon.
Stop, go back to your video game Webster.
Karen Lewis Dead is smarter Than Stacy Gates
No one cares
Right!
Also important to note and share officer MD is facing a major battle for doing his job. He’s getting 90 days for fighting with an offender who had a gun and wasn’t complying or showing his hands at Iowa and Cambridge a few years back.
They give out diplomas to kids who cant read. Nuff said.
Because the parents are connected to the progress of their children.
I had a morning meeting at Olive School in Arlington Heights. The school parking lot was almost full; odd.
Turns out that a massive rain storm on the new landscaping washed down a ramp, breaking the glass and filling the school with MUD.
The school district sent a platoon of custodians, and the PTA sent a battalion of parents and teachers to clean the mess, so the first day of school would open on time.
THEY DID IT!!!
They hauled a large pile of mud and sod out of the school, cleaned the floors and walls, and looked exhausted from working all night.
I have also spent time in Chicago public schools. They have many excellent teachers, but are overwhelmed with deadwood and slugs.
OT: Isn't this extra special.
https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/federal-grand-jury-charges-southern-poverty-law-center-wire-fraud-false-statements-and
attitude wise of course, but she is not making 1/2 million a year.
OT:
A oldie but a goodhttps://forum.officer.com/forum/officers-and-law-enforcement-professionals-only/the-squad-room/5945-why-cops-hate-you-long
The democrats are pushing for property tax relief as part of the Bears deal. Now no one is asking the question if property owners get tax relief, who make up that tax shortfall? Somebody's taxes will have to go up.
Just want to remind Bears ownership that it’s only a matter of time until Illinois enacts a net worth tax that will hit the Bears’ owners hard
The CTU’s lane is the gutter
true. i watch here and there but spend zero money on any of their tickets/gear/ etc
I think they'll stay in Chicago. Where they belong.
Love it!!!
I also agree. Let’s not forget the backlash from labor demanding jobs for unqualified people, work slowdowns higher pay, well, you get the idea.
Don't forget to take the toilets out
The CTU thinks they are a third political party. And they might be the way politicians cater to them None they are getting placed in the state to expand their power. Too bad the don’t think of the children and concentrate on getting the children educated. Their members are turning out a bad product
Bears, make your decision. Decide and move on. The city will survive either way You are not that important or the first NFL franchise to move to a different city
All the more reason to move them right over the state line to Hammond. It would just have the Communist Teachers Union eating their own shit and watching the millions they're trying to grift GO TO INDIANA.
Dont forget all the brown envelope concessions.
The CTU needs to be broken up and investigated…….
Didn't the majority of the last Soldier Field renovation fall upon the backs of the Illinois taxpayer? Why would anyone expect anything different this time?
Move to Hammond and call them the East Chicago Bears.Maybe Carlos Rosa Ramirez can fill Soldier Field with all the homeless. He might even be worse than Brandon.
That's their commie goal: dumbing down america. Can't have anyone who thinks or is even considering learning how to think.
whatever laws get passed they will fall to a homeowner lawsuit. bears have a sweetheart rent deal in Chicago that can't be replicated.
Policing in blue cities is all about perception. Stop doing proactive police work, it’s not worth it in the long run. That officer should be getting an award and not disciplined for doing his job.
You think the Bears really give a shit about what Stacey and the CTU think???
The riff-raff will cry “racism” and demand free bus lines to the stadium.
Just go to Indiana it will be grand
Bears have done nothing since 85. Why start now?
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