Mayor Brandon Johnson’s 2025 budget portends hard fight for ’26

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    Brandon Johnson is the worst big city mayor, maybe ever.

    I can’t believe they actually found someone worse than Lori Lightfoot.

  2. Least popular mayor in Chicago history, straight up and it’s only been since May last year.

    * Dude is in over his head and is a textbook narcissist

    * only listens to the teachers’ union and/or sycophants

    * Significant portion of City Council in open rebellion to the point where **they commissioned the poll that shows just how unpopular he is**

    * the media is actively hostile to him because of his combative defensiveness to the point where even neutral papers are saying his administration always finds a way to look bad

    * walking HR violation of a press secretary fired, mayor office staffers attempted to “peace circle” the concerns away. They worked together and are “longtime friends”

    * another mayoral aide donated to campaigns **calling himself the mayor and using the mayor’s address.** Said mayoral aide’s mom lost Houston mayoral race last year. Mayoral aide kept voting in Houston even though a requirement to work for Chicago is to live in Chicago

    * “collaborator in chief” yet JB Pritzker says that he definitely isn’t calling on a regular basis and is “baffled” that he even suggests he is

    * cluster of a migrant crisis handling to the point where it was clear he had no idea how to engage stakeholders within the city

    * Illinois General assembly leaders who he worked directly for and whose kids grew up with each other yet Johnson can’t be bothered to give them a wishlist

    * blames MAGA Republicans for his proposed property transfer tax getting rejected at the polls when Chicago has never passed a referendum like that and isn’t used to binding referenda

    * thinks he has a colossal mandate even though he won the closest mayoral election since the 80s

    * entire school board resigned on him because they didn’t want to fire the city superintendent over not wanting to approve what is effectively a payday loan to pay for teacher union demands

    * Stupid quote machine however I’ll leave you with these two: “it may be a yes or no question for you but I will respectfully ask you to ask your question and I’ll respond in the way in which I want to” and “I am one of the greatest human beings for just teaching middle school students”

    Others call him a left version of Trump and I agree

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