Machine Tool Enters the Race
Taking aim at Mayor Brandon Johnson’s revolving door of senior leadership, Illinois Secretary of State Alexi Giannoulias joined the race for mayor Sunday, portraying himself as the coalition builder needed to solve Chicago’s enormous problems.
Giannoulias enters the race as a presumed frontrunner with a political target on his back after raising $22 million from business leaders and building trade unions.
At the risk of biting the hand that fed his campaign, Giannoulias vowed to support the millionaires tax that Johnson has also championed.
He's also turned against the CTU (so you know they're going all in on Conehead), echoing many of the complaints we've had for decades....but that doesn't excuse his own sordid past.
Remember, this is the Machine politician who:
- lost $150 million for Illinois Bright Start college funds via Oppenheimer investments;
- lent $20 million to convicted felons Michael Giorango and Demitri Stavropoulos;
- help cost taxpayers $394 million when his family's Broadway Bank went under;
- has been granting Drivers Licenses to ILLEGAL ALIENS for years now....and registering them to vote;
- has based his early campaign commercials on defending ILLEGAL ALIENS from deportation
This ain't the guy.
Labels: city politics
posted by SCC at 12:03 AM
120 Comments:
not a good greek. a bad one. crook.
Just another piece of shit democrat. Chicago is lost.
Look at his money line. Doesn’t give a shit about you wants power like Pratzker.
Greek mafia member. Like Gus Alexis.
His endgame isn't the mayor's office, its becoming governor or senator. He's going after the black vote knowing he'll get the idiot white liberals. Three months before the election Obammy will endorse him with a TV commercial.
Word is johnson aint running. Lexi will have 10 mil plus to play with for campaign. Hes a shoe in.
But this garbage city will love hike because he goes against anything Trump says
Alexi vs Mendoza
Another defective candidate to be offered to the voters by the defective Democrat Party.
Don’t forget his hotline to report ICE vehicles “not in compliance” with the Illinois vehicle code
lent $20 million to convicted felons Michael Giorango and Demitri Stavropoulos;
They’re Greek, so it doesn’t count.
What a Typical POS dummyrat With his I will stand up to TRUMP commercials. How about Stand up to Crime How about stand up to Fat Ass and Cut our TAXES.. Hey jaggoff TRUMP has Nothing to do with How Fu@ked up Shitcago is !! The dummyrat machine does. Why Not stand up to Bullwinkle and Cut our Property Taxes!!!!!
This man is likely a Gavin Newsom clone withe worse hair.
Does Chicago really need someone this bad to Follow BJs reign of stupidity?
Democrats continue to amaze.
One of Obummer’s basketball buddies!!!
That's all we need is another trust fund baby loser just like fat boy JB Priztker!
Just another tool amongst many in the tool box.Say it ain’t so Lexicon artist
Failing up is a democrat trait...
Just wait until he goes anti police. This clown runs anti Trump commercials all day. He literally has nothing else to run on. The democrats just keep doubling down on stupid and support of criminals. If he wins, he should hire an illegal to drive him or his wife and kids everywhere. Let's see how comfortable he'd be with that.
This is the same asshole who also was going after Ice Agents saying how it was unlawful for them to change license plates and "Well go after you"...yea right, who is going to enforce that??? Your right, this guy is a tool in an empty tool box.
Alexi the former vice president of broadway bank running for mayor wow that’s funny $$$$$ how low is Chicago …if it’s between him and Johnson I’m not voting !
When was the last time you saw one of his SOS police on the street doing any enforcement on circle jerks in middle of the night at an intersection or eebikes riding down the sidewalk at lazer speed.
He'll go after them. I actually say him on the north side chasing an ICE vehicle in his Prius, waving a ticket book out the window and blowing a whistle screaming, "No one is above the law!" He's going to "stand up to Trump!" And he likes minty ice cream..
cheezebooger,,,cheezebooger,,, crook
oh pah ! I will give away lots of the taxpayer's money to the people /folks to do nothing,,, vote for me,,,,,, oh pah!!!
Greek Lightning. Que another Chicago Fire if shit for brains gets in.
This makes one long for the good old days of Mayor Richard J. Daley, Harold Washington and Jane Byrne. .
Rule are for everyone else, not Alexi. At a side job a few years ago, I had to tell him to move his car because he was blocking the driveway and access to the handicapped accessible elevator.
And he’s all in for killing babies via abortion 100% in on that plus he’s a complete alphabet edition for all of them. Whatever the alphabet people want he will do anything that’s absent complete lawful behavior he is for typical Democrat.
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Democratic playbook. Run 10 people, split the vote, etc. BJ only got 23 percent of the vote to lead to run off.
Elected to SOS in 2023. Has $22 million in campaign funds. Things that make you go Hmmmmm.
My Money is on Susana Mendoza
My Vote is for Susana Mendoza.
The Obama boy wanna be will be the next mayor of Chicago. Place your bets now on Kalshi.
He's also a fan of books used to groom children, but so are all of the progressives.
Like her but she docent have the money.
Hopefully he’s in the group that doesn’t make runoff
he might ask one of those secretary of state police to actually try and do some work
they may be male however they are not men, so tired of the girly man syndrome
He will be better than cone head for sure but we don’t need a Yes man in charge. Vote Mendoza
Yes and it will be a commercial of both playing basketball with da community to show how cool dey is.
Every political commercial or print ad says the same thing stand against Trumo and nothing else because they have nothing else to stand on
His campaign is A.G for mayor. A. GOOF is appropriate for him.
He came to power under Madigan’s orders. Let’s not rebuild that machine.
Also, check the donors…. Friends of Madigan/Daley/Burke. They don’t have to worry about higher taxes because they’ll get so much in city contracts, etc.
None of these idiots ever say what they're going to do for the taxpayer. They promise you nothing and do nothing.
I wouldn't give him the sweat off my balls if he was dying of thirst.
Alexi should check some plates in Engelwood and see how many are switched to other cars!
Fuck ga new lee us!!! There is nothing more annoying than a lunatic democrat who campaigns on fighting Trump 🤪
We want more Trump, much much more.
My taxes are way too high. It’s unsustainable to keep housing and feeding criminal illegal aliens🤬🤬🤬
Fucking dumocrats are the enemy of the people!!!!
They play Snap The Wet Towel in the locker room afterwards.
Theses candidates are akin to choosing the type of execution you want.
Have others seen this Greek guys YT adverts? IMO they are cringe worthy - he’s going to supposedly stand up to the Trump Administration that is…. get this…
TRYING TO BAN BOOKS!
Yeah, right buddy, that’s a real problem here in Chicago 2026.
IMO this guy is trying to be a Greek Libtard version of that worst ever J Minneapolis Lib Tard mayor Jacob Frey - who panders to the Somalian thieves and Mayor Frey did beak dancing BLM looting celebration with the B brothers in the ‘Hood during the George Floyd, BLM riots, mass looting.
Don’t believe me? Here’s the video:
https://www.tiktok.com/@mustafacegaag/video/7247367199315299627
Just was going over some stats from lolla, will Brandon take the credit because many of his people’s folks and the rest of the scourge that causes most of the crime we’re not there stats were wonderful no police cars were damaged. No police officers got jumped on not a lot of dope. I don’t know. I hope nobody was raped G what could the difference be?
He has nothing to run on because he’s failed at everything he’s done. Any good changes made at the Secretary of State;’s office were copied from other states. He’s unable to do anything successful on his own.
Hopefully he gets lost in the pool of 6 white people in the race. Splitting the vote is a good thing in this case
Wrong color, not a chance
He's best buddies with Obama who started the war on the police. Question of the day should be when Alexis holds his big presser with all the city unions standing behind him will the FOP be there?
Him and quigley. Useless
Come on in, the water is fine.
NFW- just another “anti-taxpaying worker” Dem spouting talking points about typical Dem wish lists- tax the rich, arrest/abolish ICE, Orange Man bad, blah blah. HUGE NO! Send Mendoza a little cash! And for Pete’s sake, VOTE!
Good guy to know if you want a loan you're not gonna pay back 💰🤑
So, just to clarify...We would be going from a mayor who cant balance a budget and spends taxpayer dollars like it is his own money, to another democrat that thinks taxpayer money is his personal slush fund and has acheived nothing politically except ideologically socialist policies? I think Ill give a hard pass to this fellow SCC
sounds like the perfect democrat $$$$$$ for everyone from taxpayers not his private funds
bb but buddies
What?! You never heard of Greek Lightning? It's a thing... wiped out the restaurant, so we had to open a bank...
I think since he supplied them with drivers licenses, and they were most likely registered to vote then too, he should be held liable for damages caused by illegal aliens in traffic crashes……..and stolen elections.
Alex may be a liberal progressive democrat but he did improve things at the sos
Ar the SOS offices he has a real cult of personality going on.
Giorango aka Jaws, was Italian. A mob connected bookmaker who somehow ended up managing a casino in another state. He ran a lot of scams in his day. Outfit guy 100%.
Regarding Giorango
Large Loans: Received millions of dollars in loans and lines of credit from Broadway Bank (run by the family of politician Alexi Giannoulias) for real estate and restaurant developments in Florida.Political Scrutiny: The loans became a major point of political controversy during Giannoulias's 2010 U.S. Senate campaign in Illinois, with opponents criticizing the financial ties to a convicted felon and mob associate.
Hey, malaka scum.
shave, take a bath and iron your clothes before taping a bullshit commercial. Oh, don't blame Pres Trump for the failings of your commie , marxist, radical leftist loving socialist demoRat policies. oh ya, you and jb can go blow yourselves.
Has an Illinois Dem. ever cut our taxes? I will vote for Alexi if he can tell us when Tri State Tollway construction will be completed (going on for 40 years now) and reveal how much cash is in the tollway fund (super secret info). Basically when Porkey flies.
The more white liberal politicians running for mayor the more the white vote is split and the better it is for Johnson to win another term.
FYI all Dems have some anti Trump or ice niche . Make sure you vote its embarrassing talking to you at roll call and you sound like a 5th grader thinking you will agree with politicians. FYI the FOP does know if you voted so dont call and complain if you didnt vote.
Another POS politician who bad raps Trump but was completely silent about Madigan and Burke.
What we really need is a well funded MAGA republican.
What’s his stance on pension funding? Only issue that matters. Mendoza ain’t the gal.
when i went to get my Real-ID last yr, they asked me if i was registered to vote...im white, so what does that tell ya..Demorats made sure you got registered when you updated your license.
Obama 2.0. He’ll get the black and Hispanic socialist ghetto votes.
The mayor just broke ground on low income housing in the loop and Michigan Ave what could possibly go wrong.
I'm not a democrat but I live here. So my vote is for Mendoza. Her brother is a CPD Sgt. Could she possibly hate the police as much as all the other candidates?
She should hit Quigley and Giannoulias hard on the running for two offices at one time nonsense. That's just corrupt right from the word go.
He’s not as bad as most progressives, he’s actually a good dude. Guys at SOS PD say he always stops and says hello. When was the last time conehead stopped a second just to nod his head.
but they sure do drive pretty vehicles, don't they?
well, since it was usually always slow as a snail it could only go up
He will be gutting the mayor’s detail, so it’s a good thing. All SGT’s will be going back, and most PO’s.
Don't waste your time, this race is already over; he has all the money and will get the big endorsements of Obama and Pritzker. The rest just dilute the vote of any serious contender.
We need to go back to a proper primary, instead of this rank choice nonsense, which was passed to eliminate any chance of a Republican ever winning again.
BJ has no chance if he runs; Wilson is running again and gets considerable votes, as will a few other black candidates, as well as the black republican woman; the black vote will get divided, as they are not unified whatsoever, and encompass different camps.
I wouldn't be surprised if Quigley drops out, he has to know he has no path to victory, neither do the other lesser-known white candidates. Pappas has name recognition but no money, she'll probably drop out as well, to avoid losing to a fellow Greek.
Preckwinkle will stay quiet this time around, but don't be fooled, she is firmly in control and wants AG, she sees what a failure BJ is and won't attach her name to that sinking ship, especially after her failure backing the losing State's Attorney candidate in the last cycle.
The CTU and SEIU will back BJ strongly, since he does their bidding.
Anyone else deciding to run will just muddy up the waters. Our election system is beyond a joke.
All he did was implement Ideas from other States... We had to elect someone to do that?
They are ALL THE SAME. No thanks
It is hard to believe that in a city of 3,000,000 people, that this is the best we have to choose from for mayor.
Mr. Ya'llbe say: I wouldn't trust him to run a greasy spoon. "Cheeseborger cheeseborger Coke! No Coke. Pepsi!" He needs to spray Windex on his ethical standards.
I'd vote for Mendoza just cuz she made a DUI citizen's arrest.
Thanasaurus, Drammis, Theis,
DEI with her merit sgt. brother.
Word is the FOP is going to back the Greek. True story. If it happens, catanzara should be drawn and quartered.
wrong color, even as a Dem stooge
At this point the city is so fucked up its beyond repair.
You don’t have any balls.Boo hoo.
18 months ago and illegal killed 3 women in front of Carle Hospital in Urbana. UPD did the accident report and listed a DL for the illegal. So how did the illegal get a ILDL if Alexi did not issue it?
Won't happen. He has young kids and he will want a detail for the whole family. They all say one thing and then change their minds once in office. They all love having police officers surrounding them to make them feel safe. It's the new status symbol.
Stopping by and saying hello doesn't cut it, Barney.
That's what politicians do.
You happy now.
Mark T a blast from the past -with a shotgun. That homicide is still unsolved.
Will he cut alderman by 60% close cos schools, end fraud, increase CPD manpower, remove bodyguards from former mayors, put CFD on 12 hour shifts , put gambling 🎰 games in restaurants, bars,convention centers and airports, end gold braid CPD pension , cut waste in streets and sanitation
Post yesterday suggests Giannoulis a new name-"Pud". Like it or not?
Any other suggestions?
He’s more likely to get the black and white votes.
Hispanics are not the liberals in this city.
Country is too. A financial crisis (world) worst ever approaches.There will be no bailout this time
No he won’t they will just be greek instead
They all stop and say hello and they're all full of shit. Get rid of illegals, allow police to police and cut waste. That would be a great politician.
His cheezy ass ads says he's everywhere fighting Trump! If he actually was, he wouldn't be talking about it !
If asked about your voter status, just tell them that's classified like I do and enjoy the look on their faces !
FUBAR? Yeah I agree!
Conehead was loudly told more than once he would NOT get the Black vote and I believe it!
I changed my mind about her as soon as she talked about messing with our pension. Hard talk time. If you agree to be the only people taking a haircut in this city, you’re a fool. Defund illegals and pay my fucking pension. Fuck her.
Deputy Dog Says:
Giantnoodle-less is just another old commiecrat machine Politician trying to pass himself off as a fresh young prog. Not so. He is Gomer Pyle in civilian clothes. “Sha-Zayum ! I’m just another Tax & Spend Democrat “
Geez. Have another belt of whatever youre drinkin'.
Susanna will get the JB money when the time is right. He is a big fan!
Um no. She is the real deal. Watch it all play out. I suggest Trader Joes theatre popcorn on election night.
If he wins Georgas back as the sup. You heard it here first!
Oh really? Have you seen the current city council? It’s loaded with socialist hispanics; guess who voted them in? Other socialists Hispanics.
Not useless for the Leftist Communists.
So saying hello makes him a "good dude" ? You are a moron.
you are 100% correct
There are people voting who have no stake in the game.No money, no property, no job. Vote for me I'll give everyone a stimulus check (Obama)
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