Brickbat: Cutting You Off

Illinois State Comptroller Susana Mendoza has stopped state funding to the city of Dolton after Mayor Tiffany Henyard refused to turn over financial reports and a financial audit, as required by state law. Mendoza said she may fine the city if it fails to turn over the reports. Henyard is under fire for what critics call extravagant spending, which allegedly included spending $40,000 on Amazon in a single day. In April 2022, the city had a $5.6 million budget surplus. But an investigation by former Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot found the city now has a $3.6 million deficit.

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[Fist of Etiquette]

The ladies do like to spend if you let them. Am I right, fellas?

[Don't look at me!]

It’s why you can’t have chicks in charge.

[SQRLSY]

Well, they could be in charge of sammich-making, so long ass you keep an eye on their Amazon accounts, ass far ass shit goes, about buying ingredients for the sammiches!

[Quo Usque Tandem]

"She's so fine, there's no tellin' where the money went."

[I'd start that audit with hair, nails, and shoes]

[AT]

"No, see, it's fine because it was on sale. I actually saved money!"

[jimc5499]

Notice how Charles neglects to mention the political affiliation of all involved. Democrat, Democrat and Democrat. Reason is being deceitful. Reason complains about many things. Reason also carries water for the Democrat Party. Reason never mentions that the people that they are complaining about, the majority of them are Democrats.

[SQRLSY]

"But an investigation by former Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot found the city now has a $3.6 million deficit."

Lori Lightfoot should NOT have investigated?

"Mendoza said she may fine the city if it fails to turn over the reports.

Mendoza should NOT even be threatening to do this?

Reason just reported the FACTS, ma'am! That is all! Are you hallucinating? What did Reason "say", in the lines, or between the lines, Oh Great Morally Righteous Genius? Do you think that the two people mentioned above (apparently EVIL Demon-Craps in your hateful, tribalistic mind) should NOT be doing what they're doing? Can you actually write ANYTHING factual, beyond who belongs to which Tribe?

[rbike]

Unfortunately above post was not std graybox and I read some of it. Nope, good point that no political affiliations were noted in the article. A reasonable, intelligent person would question this.
Reason "journalists". Do your job.

[SQRLSY]

If a place is mentioned, the percentage breakdown of the population in that place MUST be given (by truly responsible journalists), by race, creeds, sexual orientations, political tribes, languages spoken, and by whether or snot the population supports and strokes stolen erections! Needless to say, these parameters must ALSO be listed for the individuals named in the narrative! Else twat ye have is a narrow-minded narrative!

[SQRLSY]

I refute twat you say by mentioning that I normally gray-box ALL of those of the (perceived) wrong-thinking tribe! Otherwise I refute twat you say by NOT reading it!

Don't forget, Kool Kids, the REAL Right and True Kool Kids do NOT read, or comment upon, the writings of the NOT-Kool-Kids!

Don't forget, Kool Kids, the REAL Right and True Kool Kids don’t stoop so low as to associate with the NOT-Kool-Kids! Else they might pollute our Sacred Tribal Minds with sarcastic thoughts like the below (I’m just WARNING you!):

Reason itself is un-Kool; They do NOT support The One True Right Way! So we should ban and gray-box the entire site! We should all go to One True Right Way sites like Truth Social, Alex-Jones-Land, and Parler! Or we should all go to One True Right Way nations like North Korea, Mainland China, Iran, Russia, Cuba, or Venezuela!

[sarcasmic]

I know it. It's so unfair, right? If the people had been Republicans you know Reason would have had the word "Republican" in the article like ten times. Those poor Republicans are always the victims. So unfair. Calling out bad behavior by Democrats without calling them Democrats is the same as saying the bad behavior was done by Republicans. Exactly the same. Those poor, poor victimized Republicans. So unfair. So, so unfair. Poor Republicans. So unfair.

[Don't look at me!]

No new ideas. Sad.

[mad.casual]

[scratches neck and stares at sky] That's not the only important thing that Reason isn't mentioning.

Once again, I’m just thrilled that, with all the forced diversity and regio-/ethnodistortionalism in modern Hollywood, Reason continues to stick with its principled “Whites Only” stock photo policy.

[Chipper Chunked Chile Con Congress (ex NCW)]

To be fair, it's Illinois. It would only be newsworthy if it was a Republican, and the part that was "news" would be that a Republican had been elected in Illinois.

[LIBtranslator]

Reason is right to report what the entrenched looter gangs say about one another. The Dems strive to make Christian nationalsocialists look like fiscal conservatives to their Leninist audience. God's Own Prohibitionists stop at nothing to prove the Dems right in characterizing them as a Comstock Torquemadista Inquisition whose goal is to make Islam look sane and civilized by comparison. Hear what they say while trying to evade the advance of Libertarian spoiler votes and candidates like Chase Oliver.

[SQRLSY]

Chase Oliver, sad to say, is gay! So that puts him right in there in the middle of the "wrong people"... illegal sub-humans, trannies, accused “groomers”, abortionists, gays, heathens, infidels, vaxxers, mask-wearers, atheists, dirty hippies, Jews, witches, or, the very WORST of them all, being one of those accused of STEALING THE ERECTIONS OF OUR DEAR LEADER!!!

[Rick James]

This is the only thing we can find wrong with Tiffany Henyard?

[Pooneil]

If Comptroller Mendoza had stepped in a few years ago when the city started to fall behind in its required reporting, much of that loss could have been avoided.