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My opponent strongly opposes working to keep the Chicago Bears by working with them on a new stadium project. Demi Packers Palecek is determined to jack up taxes and chase businesses out of Illinois and Chicago like never before!
Chicago lost the Bears this week. A team that's been in the city since 1921.
They didn't lose them to a bigger market or a better deal. The Bears decided they'd rather be a tenant in Indiana than deal with Illinois for one more year.
Think about how badly you have to run a place for that to be the smart move.
They lost them for two reasons.
The people running Illinois would rather villainize a builder than keep one. And they're bad at their jobs.
In 2021 the Bears spent $197M on the old Arlington Park racetrack.
Before they could break ground, Cook County valued the empty lot at $192M (Bears said $60M). They were salivating at the chance to extort a building that didn't even exist yet.
That fight dragged on for years.
The Bears were ready to put $2B into the stadium. All they wanted was a promise the county wouldn't reassess them into oblivion, plus $855M for infrastructure everyone uses. Roads, transit, utilities. A $3B project, two thirds of it private money pouring into Illinois.
Springfield had since 2021 to get this done. They dragged it to the final night of session, passed it through the Senate at 3:39AM, and the House went home without voting.
So now it's all gone.
The funniest part? This started because Cook County tried to grab the tax early. They knew a built stadium would pay $53M a year. Now they get under $4M on a vacant lot. No jobs, no buildout, no new anything.
Congrats on fighting for scraps and losing the whole prize.
Pritzker: they're "an $8.5B valued business" that doesn't need propping up.
But be smart for a second. Almost every NFL city throws in public money for a stadium. Not charity. The return is real. Tourism, hotels, restaurants, jobs, game days, property tax on a huge development. The math works.
Indiana did the math. While Illinois sat on it for years, Indiana passed a bill in months, put up $1B, and took the team.
And the Bears took a worse deal to get there. In Illinois they were going to own their stadium. In Indiana they rent it from the state. A team that wanted to build its own home gave up ownership just to escape Chicago.
Nobody won but Indiana. The Bears lost their stadium. Illinois lost the team, the $2B, and $53M a year in taxes.
Pritzker after they left: "I wasn't willing to give up billions of dollars of taxpayer money to give it to a billionaire-owned family or team."
There it is. "Billionaire-owned."
That's how Democrats talk about any business right before they run it out of town. Call them a billionaire, act like you're saving working families, take a victory lap while the tax base drives across the state line.
Meanwhile they're running the whole state into the ground. And you already know how this ends. You're living in it.
Pensions are $143B in the hole, worst in the country and not close. You pay $6,285 a year in property taxes, double the $2,969 national average, for a city that's $1.15B in the red. The mayor called its finances "the point of no return."
When you run things this badly, you sell what's left.
They leased the parking meters for 75 years to Morgan Stanley and a sovereign wealth fund in Abu Dhabi. Took $1.15B and burned through it in two years. The investors already made it all back, with 58 years left to collect.
Sold the Skyway. Sold the downtown garages. Every asset that made money, gone for one check.
But a fixed property tax rate for a team that's been here 106 years? That's "propping up billionaires."
Companies are leaving. Boeing for Virginia. Caterpillar for Texas. Citadel for Miami. In 2023 alone Illinois lost 56,000 people and $6B in income to other states. The ones who left earned a third more than the ones who moved in.
Indiana didn't outbid anyone. AAA credit, 16 years straight. A $676M surplus. Fourth-lowest debt per person in the country. They just weren't a disaster.
Illinois could have collected $53M a year. It chose zero. Ignore all the bad management but make sure to stick it to those evil, pesky billionaires.
@BrysonGray In the Gospel, Jesus is "Lord of the Sabbath" (Mk 2:27-28), prioritizing mercy over rules. Teaches it's not binding: Col 2:16-17 calls Sabbaths a "shadow" fulfilled in Christ. Rom 14:5 says esteem days as you wish. Acts 15 Council imposed no Sabbath on Gentiles. Freedom in Christ
After Saigon fell, my family fled communism & persecution from Vietnam. Mao's regime killed up to 70 million & Communist China today remains America’s #1 foreign adversary. I’ll fight to pass legislation banning them from buying Illinois land. #StopChinaNow
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@sola_chad She was still alive so people could just ask her to pray or ask Jesus like how she convinced him to perform him first miracle. We ask our friends and family to pray for us that's called intercession not worship.
@BrysonGray New Testament strongly condemns Judaizers, primarily in the Galatians, for teaching that Gentile Christians must follow Mosaic Law to be saved. Paul denounced them as "false brothers," "dogs," and "evildoers" who were distorting the gospel. You should read the Bible Bryson
@BrysonGray Lol the book of Acts and Jerusalem Council was literally to address Judaizers like you. Folks who have actually read the Bible would know 🤷
@BrysonGray The gospel didn't exist because was still being written even if it did nobody at that time could read it. You were taught by a church that yes existed before the Bible. Apostles, elders, bishops & priests had the authority to teach not Bryson Gray. You're very welcome
@BrysonGray Much was written but the church decided what qualified as scripture & what is not. Literacy rate was 10% & 1st century it was still being written. In Acts the Apostles & elders decided in a council which laws were to be kept. Nobody has personal Bibles or interpretation 🤦♂️🤷
20 prior arrests for violent crimes and he gets put back on the street after committing an armed robbery.
A Chicago police officer is now dead and another in critical condition because of this insanity.
Illinois democrats have simply lost it. Vote every single one of them out.