Democrats are hiring professional Protestors to infiltrate Donald Trump's Rally's, disturb the peace, prevent Freedom Of Speech by Mr. Trump. Just like the Mafia of the 30s and 40s, truckers strike, Booze sales Etc. It would not surprise me if some of the Good Ole GOP are involved, because Donald Trump owes no one any favors. Starting fights with peace loving voters, supporters of Donald Trump. Go Donald Trump I already voted for you on absentee Ballot, like so many of my fellow Trapshooters have done. Yours in Sport Gary Bryant.................................Dr.longshot
The State of Illinois is considering filing charges against Trump for inciting a riot .. I guess its politics as usual in the State of Illinois , can't hold a rally or convention with out being criminally charged , which we all know was the democrats way of disrupting the gathering ... Go TRUMP , Make America Great Again ... WPT ... (YAC) ...
Chicago deemed ‘corruption leader’ in 2015 Leave a comment By Austin Berg, Monday at 9:29 pm From red-light cameras to a police dash cam, cigarettes to city checks, public schools to City Hall, 2015 was another black mark on the ethics record of Chicago government. A new report from researchers at the University of Illinois at Chicago details public corruption across Illinois over the course of 2015, noting that Chicagoans “experienced a very active corruption scene.” Among the city’s most notable corruption convictions in recent months: Former Chicago Public Schools CEO Barbara Byrd-Bennett pleadedguilty in October 2015 to steering $23 million in city contracts to her former employer, SUPES Academy. John Bills, formerly second-in-command at the Department of Transportation, was found guilty in January 2016 for his role in steering the city’s red-light-camera business to Redflex Traffic Systems Inc. in exchange for hundreds of thousands of dollars in kickbacks. Antionette Chenier, a former Department of Transportation clerk, pleaded guilty in April 2015 to embezzling nearly $750,000 in permit fees. Abd Ayesh, a former compliance supervisor in the Department of Business Affairs and Consumer Protection, pleaded guilty in January 2015 to stealing and selling more than $2,000 worth of confiscated, unstamped cigarette cartons. Among the major investigations launched: A Cook County grand jury on Dec. 16, 2015, indicted Chicago police Officer Jason Van Dyke on six counts of murder and one count of official misconduct in the killing of Laquan McDonald. Staffers at two public schools were arrested and charged with theft of more than $876,000 from Chicago Public Schools through a fraudulentpurchasing and reimbursement scheme. In June 2015, FBI agents obtained warrants to search two email accounts related to an alleged bribery scheme wherein Felipe Oropesa, an executive at LAZ Parking, attempted to steer a $22 million Chicago parking meter contract toward Cale Parking Systems USA Inc. in exchange for $90,000. The Chicago Sun-Times reportedin February that Oropesa indicated he would plead guilty. Despite so much evidence pointing to a corruption epidemic in Chicago, city leaders have not taken the steps necessary to ensure effective oversight in their own chambers. After operating without any local watchdog for months following the departure of Legislative Inspector General Faisal Khan, members of Chicago City Council passed a watered-down ordinance submitting themselves to the ethics oversight of Inspector General Joe Ferguson, but not to his auditing powers. Given that Alderman Ed Burke, 14th Ward, led the charge in weakening that ordinance, many speculated that the move was meant to shield the city’s $100 million-a-year workers’ compensation program – controlled by Burke’s Finance Committee – from close examination. But aldermen aren’t the only ones afraid of sunlight. After intense scrutiny in the aftermath of the killing of Laquan McDonald, it came to light that Chicago’s own police contract calls for the destruction of citizen complaint records against officers after five or seven years, depending on the type of complaint – a provision that Chicago police unions are fighting the city in court to enforce. These records can be invaluable in identifying patterns of misconduct (police misconduct has cost the city $53,000 per officer since 2004), and their destruction could make it difficult or impossible for Chicagoans tortured into false confessions under the reign of disgraced former police commander Jon Burge to argue for new hearings, according to Craig Futterman, a law professor at the University of Chicago. Fixing Chicago’s culture of corruption will require battles on many different fronts, from aldermanic oversight, to collective-bargaining reform and beyond. All of them will require the courage of public officials with nothing to hide.
It's difficult to call Chicago the armpit of the nation because there are so many armpits,..... But seriously, how could the politics in one city, even the enire state, be so corrupt for so many years?
12 Obamacare Insurance CO-OPs Fold After Getting $1.2 Bil from Govt. - Judicial Watch More than half of the government-funded nonprofit health insurers created by Obamacare have failed, sticking taxpayers with a $1.2 billion tab and leaving hundreds of thousands of people in more than a dozen states scrambling for medical coverage, a new federal audit reveals. The nonprofit insurers are known as Consumer Operated and Oriented Plan Program (CO-OP) and the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) has pumped $2.4 billion into them under the president’s hostile takeover of the nation’s healthcare system. Congress initially allocated $6 billion for the Obamacare CO-OP program, with the goal of establishing CO-OPs in all 50 states as well as the District of Columbia. Thankfully, subsequent legislation slashed funding for the ill-fated experiment. In all, HHS has funded 23 of these dubious enterprises and 12 have already gone under after losing an astounding $1.2 billion that’s unlikely to ever be recovered. As a result 740,000 people in 14 states must search for new medical coverage they thought they had under the disastrous Obamacare plan. Every resident of the United States who pays taxes should be outraged by this monstrous failure, exposed in great detail in a scathing report published by the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee. The committee’s probe reveals that, even when the CO-OPs showed clear signs of financial failure, HHS kept giving them huge amounts of money in the form of “loans” the agency knew would never be repaid. In fact, HHS officials knew of serious problems with enrollment strategies, financial forecasts, management and pricing before approving the first loan, according to the panel’s findings. “HHS approved the failed CO-OPs despite receiving specific warnings from a third-party analyst about weaknesses in their business plans,” the report states. The CO-OPs ultimately racked up a breath-taking $376 million in losses in 2014 and more than $1 billion in losses in 2015 yet the cash kept flowing. HHS knew how serious the problem was, according to the report, yet kept filling the CO-OP’s coffers. By the end of 2014, the 12 collapsed insurance nonprofits had already exceeded their projected worst-case-scenarios by more than $263 million, four times more than what they initially projected. Incredibly, that didn’t stop Obama’s minions at HHS from doling out another $848 million even as the CO-OPS were on a downhill spiral. “Even though HHS was aware of serious financial distress suffered by the CO-OPs in 2014, it failed
