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@PaulVallas "The resonant message of Mayor Johnsons budget address is: If you live in Chicago progressives are giving you more reasons to leave. If you dont live in Chicago dont come here. For businesses Johnsons message is even more menacing: We intend to tax you out of the city or out of existence. In sum the mayor is proposing to close a $XXXX billion budget deficit almost entirely by raising taxes and fees $XXX million and declaring dividing up nearly $X billion in one-time TIF surplus 0ver $XXX million will be turned over to the schools. When not using progressive vernacular to trumpet this"
X Link @PaulVallas 2025-10-16T20:03Z 43.1K followers, 64.4K engagements

"The Democratic Partys move to dump Assessor Fritz Kaegi is a political smokescreen to shield Cook County Board President and Democratic Party Boss Toni Preckwinkle from blame for the disastrous Tyler Technologies contract that has already cost taxpayers $XXX million and counting. While Kaegi has been ineffective as Assessor thefailure lies with Preckwinkle who awarded the politically connected contract. Treasurer Maria Pappas reports she cant distribute funds to 2200 local agencies process over 25000 refunds or issue second installment tax bills. Look for more struggling taxpayers to face"
X Link @PaulVallas 2025-07-19T18:57Z 43.1K followers, 17.3K engagements

"Still waiting for Mayor Johnson CTU Pres. Gates and Gov Pritzker to pause their anti Fed rhetoric long enough to comment on Chicagos nation leading murders and shootings of school age youth now at XX killed and XXX wounded this year. What are they going to do about it"
X Link @PaulVallas 2025-10-08T15:36Z 43.1K followers, 55.2K engagements

"You dont have to support the White Houses policies to recognize Mayor Johnson and Stacy Davis Gates are desperate to create fear and panic among school children and their families with tall tales of imminent ICE raids. Their latest effort was a press conference claiming ICE used tear gas near a school. Neither seems alarmed that WGN reported Chicago leads the nation with 3000 shot near schools last year. Chicago leads nation with XXX school age students XX years and younger murdered or wounded this year. No mention of this grisly statistic by the mayor or Davis Gates let alone a press"
X Link @PaulVallas 2025-10-12T16:25Z 43.1K followers, 61.2K engagements

"As we near budget season in Chicago residents should know that Mayor Johnsons security detail reportedly may have as many as XXX officers. Thats more than the XXX full time officers assigned to the CTA to cover XX stations XXX platforms and XXX trains. The cost of the mayor's detail likely exceeds $XX million a year. No worries. The mayors going to offset those costs by getting rid of the Police Mounted Patrol beloved by the community and strongly supported by Chicagos Gold Star families. The cost to maintain the horses is just over $600K per year. Note that while XXX officers protect the"
X Link @PaulVallas 2025-10-09T14:28Z 43.1K followers, 79.9K engagements

"Mayor Johnson is preparing to gift wrap $XXX million in TIF property tax surplus for the Chicago Public Schools and the Chicago Teachers Union. A terrible idea. The City Council should require the CTU to use every dollar of its annual TIF windfall to pick up its own costs that the city has been subsidizing these many years. This should be the top priority of the City Council. City school subsidies exceed $X billion annually and are in addition to the schools XX% share of all property taxes. The TIF property tax windfall equals revenues the Mayor seeks from the head tax cloud tax and"
X Link @PaulVallas 2025-10-17T18:23Z 43.1K followers, 11.8K engagements