50-to-Zero

We haven't seen a loss this bad since the (pick your Chicago sports team here):

• Mayor Brandon Johnson got the message on the first day of budget hearings that his $300 million property tax increase wouldn’t fly. But just in case it wasn’t abundantly clear, the City Council delivered that message again Thursday in the loudest of political terms.

  The increase that would have broken one of Johnson’s fundamental campaign promises was shot down, with no debate, 50-0.

  The unanimous vote was largely symbolic. Negotiations to reduce or eliminate the property tax increase and replace it with a mix of new revenue and reprogrammed federal pandemic relief funds began last weekend.

As the article says, "largely symbolic" but still, not a single aldercreature even threw him a sympathy vote. 

Now would be the perfect time to propose and pass (by a 50-to-zero vote) a recall mechanism into Law for times when a mayor has lost the entire confidence of the Council and the electorate. A veto by Conehead would be overridden 50-to-zero.