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Chicago Way w/John Kass: ‘Death Before Life’ is must-read from John Gorman

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4.81.1K Ratings

🗓️ 19 February 2024

⏱️ 40 minutes

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Chicago Way w/John Kass (02/19/24): One this edition, former Chicago Tribune editor & veteran of the Cook County State’s Attorney’s office, John Gorman talks about his first book Death Before Life and why the race for State’s Attorney is important for Chicagoans. Gorman joins John Kass & Jeff Carlin for a great discussion and offers […]

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0:00.0

You know the most important election and I don't know how many years is happening right now.

0:05.4

No it's not the mayor's election. No, it's not the governor's election. The fat billionaire governor can still be governor and the idiotic mayor can still have his

0:15.2

panic attacks. No, I'm talking about another important election. This one for Cook

0:20.9

County State's attorney, the prosecutor.

0:24.3

For years now, we've had Kim Fox,

0:27.0

juicy Smollett's girlfriend,

0:29.2

the savior of criminals and George Soros as the state's attorney.

0:36.3

And of course you've seen what's happened.

0:39.1

Crime shooting through the roof, murders, mayhem, violence on the trains everywhere. Old ladies being

0:48.3

attacked, I mean this is just out of a dystopian nightmare but it's not. It's out of Cook County in Chicago and the

0:57.2

campaign to elect the state's attorney is fundamental to that effort.

1:04.1

Laiden Harris wants to continue the Kim Fox policy.

1:08.0

He says, I see nothing wrong with following what she's done. I mean madness and well Jeff you've got a something

1:17.3

for us to listen to here. Yeah John I mean we were living through it now this idea of

1:22.1

the redefinition of what crime is and what victims of crime are, right?

1:27.1

In the Kim Fox universe and the judge Evans universe.

1:35.6

People who commit crimes are, you know,

1:38.9

they're victims of the system.

1:40.4

They're only committing crime

1:41.6

because we essentially have made what they do criminal?

1:45.3

That's the kind of the idea. And I'm sure some of our listeners have probably seen this, but this

1:49.7

popped up over a weekend. A black man in America, the road to 2024, this TV show I believe it's on

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