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The Chicago Way

Chicago Way w/John Kass: Mayor Brandon ‘Harold Washington’ Johnson

The Chicago Way

WGN Plus

News & Politics, News, Columnist, Politics, Carlin, Plus, Wgn, Jeff, Tribune, John, Chicago, The, Kass, Radio, Way

4.81.1K Ratings

🗓️ 24 March 2025

⏱️ 39 minutes

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Summary

Chicago Way w/John Kass (03/24/25): John Kass & Jeff Carlin tackle Chicago Mayor Brandon calling himself the second coming of Harold Washington, his campaign donations from a law firm involved in a lawsuit with the city, and how begging for a 3% kickback from city vendors is working out. Plus, Carlin has an early nominee […]

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0:00.0

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0:15.5

There's a popular concept rolling through the political circles in Chicago and in New York.

0:25.4

It's the idea of municipal-owned grocery stores as a way to keep prices low.

0:32.9

It's a popular concept because none of these people know what the bleep they're talking about.

0:38.3

But they think that a city that can't even keep people alive or safe or protected on the

0:46.9

L should be able to run supermarkets.

0:50.5

Guess what?

0:51.5

I grew up in a family of grocery store owners. My uncle George and my father

0:58.1

worked 50 years. My brother Peter worked, I don't know, 50 years running a grocery store.

1:07.4

It can't be done with these morons who are now in Chicago like Brandon Johnson wanted a grocery store. It can't be done with these morons who are now in Chicago like Brandon Johnson wanted a

1:14.2

grocery store. And same with a socialist in New York wants to do it. It can't be done. The idea

1:24.4

is that corporate grocery stores, privately owned grocery stores, are full of greed, and business owners are full of greed.

1:34.8

And if the city, the government ran a grocery store, it would be so much better.

1:41.7

They would take the profit out of the grocery store, and it would be so much

1:46.9

better for the people, right? According to the Lenin, like the Lenin playbook, but it has nothing to do

1:57.4

with reality. The reality is this is just another

2:01.8

and a long line of terrible ideas

2:04.2

sprouting from the damaged brain

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