Tag: Progressive
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Gutfeld: Carl Heastie is holding us ‘captive’ to progressive delusions
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NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! Here in New York, police arrested eight illegal aliens on charges of attempted murder, drugs, theft, trespassing and child endangerment, and while that sounds like the usual big city mayhem or a typical flight on Spirit Air, what happened after shows you why you get a whole…
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The ‘Progressive’ Anti-Abortion Group Plays Dirty to Get Ahead in D.C.
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By Darius Tahir | KHN This summer, pedestrians, drivers, and passengers in Washington, D.C., saw a new type of graffiti among the usual urban scrawls: anti-abortion advocacy designed to troll this ultra-blue city. On sidewalks, on bridge overpasses, and near metro stations some people had stenciled or spray-painted missives like “Be Gay: Ban Abortion” and,…
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J. B. Pritzker, Billionaire Hotel Heir—and Progressive Hero?
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Last fall, on a sunny day in the Chicago exurbs, J. B. Pritzker, well on his way to reëlection as the Democratic governor of Illinois, was knocking on a few doors and talking up his candidacy. A Republican had won every gubernatorial election in DuPage County since 1932, until Pritzker came along. He high-fived a…
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His rise from union organizer to Chicago’s new progressive mayor, and the challenges he inherits – Chicago Tribune
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Brandon Johnson will be sworn in as Chicago’s 57th mayor on Monday, kicking off a new era at City Hall that he promises will be the city’s most progressive and transformative administration yet. The mayor-elect, 47, will enter his inauguration ceremony on a mission to uplift the working class after campaigning on an anti-establishment platform…
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Ro Khanna’s Progressive Case for Saving Silicon Valley Bank
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One thing that Ro Khanna, a U.S. House member who represents parts of Silicon Valley, has learned about trying to organize relations between the Democratic Party and tech billionaires is that it is often easier to leverage the narcissism of founders than to disabuse them of it. “You have to understand the mind-set of people…
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Brandon Johnson, Progressive Union Organizer, Elected Mayor Of Chicago
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Overcoming a major fundraising gap, accusations that he would “defund” the police and public polling that predicted his defeat, progressive Brandon Johnson, a Cook County commissioner and organizer for the Chicago Teachers Union, won a hotly contested race for mayor of Chicago, the nation’s third-largest city. Johnson, who is a Black leftist and former schoolteacher,…
