The Chicago Way w/John Kass: Who benefits more from giving away tax dollars at random, the city or the re-election?
The Chicago Way
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🗓️ 29 April 2022
⏱️ 38 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | I don't want my nieces, nephews, or my sons, or my wife to ride the CTA. |
| 0:11.9 | Riders of the CTA are routinely robbed, beaten, shot, killed, sexually assaulted, threatened |
| 0:19.9 | with rape to their face, and the others just avert their eyes, hoping they won't be next. |
| 0:27.1 | There's been a 17% increase in violent crime and a 17% increase in crime last year too. |
| 0:38.2 | So what does the mayor do? |
| 0:41.1 | She adds some unarmed security guards who don't want to get their asses kicked because they're |
| 0:45.9 | too afraid. |
| 0:46.9 | Oh, but I forgot. |
| 0:48.8 | The mayor actually did something. |
| 0:51.8 | She's taken more than $12 million of taxpayer money to pass out free rides on the CTA |
| 0:58.4 | and free guests with her name plastered all over the cards. |
| 1:04.6 | You think she'd spend that money to hire cops to put them on the CTA? |
| 1:09.1 | No. |
| 1:10.3 | What she wants is the cards with her name. |
| 1:15.1 | So which story gets more attention? |
| 1:17.9 | CTA attacks and violence or mayor phallus maximus giving out gas with your money. |
| 1:27.5 | Obviously she was upset about Willie Wilson giving away free gas, but at least Willie, who's |
| 1:33.7 | a candidate for mayor, used his own money. |
| 1:38.0 | Mayor phallus maximus takes your money to give out free gas and CTA rides. |
| 1:45.9 | Mayor phallus maximus, she of the gigantic alleged sausage, the way she described it and |
| 1:57.3 | bragged, the days of honoring yourself, Madam, may soon be at an end. |
| 2:04.8 | You know, there's nothing like politicians who think you're a bunch of chumbalones, especially |
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