Illinois just discovered its emergency management agency spent $78.5 million on standby pay for contractors who were available but not working.
Nearly 470,000 hours in total. $7.5 million of it went to 270 contractors who never performed any actual work at all.
The agency never calculated how many people it needed. Instead, the vendor set the headcount and the state simply paid the invoices. Real oversight barely existed.
All of this happened under Governor Pritzker, who has raised taxes and fees on Illinoisans more than 50 times. Taxpayers keep getting squeezed for more revenue, while the state spends without restraint.
The auditor general only surfaced these numbers years later, and the people who allowed it are still running the show.
Zero accountability. Classic Illinois.
H/T @MarkHespen
🚨 UPDATE: Sen. Mike Lee just said President Trump should invoke certiorari before judgment at the SUPREME COURT to RAPIDLY push a SCOTUS ruling on an activist judge's block against executive order-imposed Postal Service mail-in ballot integrity rules
The USPS' mail-in rules will ensure a LIST is turned over if states want a ballot sent, and ballots require barcode tracking!
"If necessary, seek 'certiorari before judgment' to get this case in front of SCOTUS immediately." 💯
This case is at SCOTUS, but the ruling might take too long to even matter for the midterms. They're running out the clock.
This is MASSIVE for November.
SCOTUS must act and SECURE OUR ELECTIONS 🇺🇸
Just met the compliance head from Quidax and Research head at Busha after a fireside chat at an event.
Both team acknowledge that they know about Wiki Cat.
I have pushed for them to list it and they seem very excited about doing it.
Expect something very soon.
🚨🗞️ Washington’s Crypto Policy Blitz: Trump Pushes the Clarity Act as Regulators Press Ahead With Rulemaking
D.C.’s usual August lull gave way to a flurry of crypto policy activity this week.
https://t.co/qIm4Pi8S9F
🚨California Democrats are in PANIC MODE now that @NickShirleyy is leading a TSUNAMI of patriots to rally at the California Capitol in Sacramento on August 26th.
Everyone that can go should go!
God bless Nick.
Democrat Senator Duckworth: "I want to leave tire tracks on the backs of those Republicans."
The party of love and tolerance is showing their love again.
🚨 IT'S OFFICIAL: More DEMOCRAT voters are jumping ship in Michigan, publicly announcing support for MIKE ROGERS (R) for Senate
This is huge!
"I usually vote Democrat."
"But I'm gonna be voting for Mike Rogers!" 🔥
"Abdul El Sayed has made one thing VERY clear: we can not let him anywhere near the US Senate! He's shown contempt for the Jewish community and frankly for AMERICAN VALUES."
Keep pushing! El Sayed can be TROUNCED if he keeps losing his own party.
Michigan can save the Senate.
🚨 California has officially passed AB 2624, aka “The Stop Nick Shirley Act”:
The Senate and Assembly have passed the bill, and now it’s on the governor’s desk.
California would rather protect fraudsters over law-abiding taxpayers.
On August 26 be at the Capitol in Sacramento.
🚨 WOW! Scott Presler is officially planning to PRIMARY CHALLENGE Senate Leader John Thune if the SAVE America Act does not take effect for the 2026 midterms
“I promise to lead the charge to primary & defeat him in 2028.
Scott is PLAYING HARDBALL!
Follow and share @Red_Pill001
And here is:
A pastor in the corrupt one-party state of Chicago exposing how Democrats hold on to power in blue cities and how they overthrew the United States government in 2020.
“We found thumb drives. We found printers. We found corrupt Democrat judges posing as Republican judges. We have receipts for everything I’ve said.”
In other words: the Democrats have turned polling stations into cheating stations.
If CLARITY continues to stall because of Democratic obstruction, the @CFTC will utilize its existing authorities to begin establishing a regime for crypto asset markets. We owe it to the American people to do so.
Here's how we'll get it done ⬇️
HOLY COW
This needs to break the Internet.
@JamesOKeefeIII went to Alaska during the primary on August 18th
& Election Day Workers were ready to hand him Brian Murkowski’s ballot!
Brian Murkowski is the bother of Senator Lisa Murkowski.
Yes, the same Senator AGAINST the SAVE America Act — who won’t support photo voter ID & proof of citizenship to vote.
You can’t make this up!
If you live in Alaska, please share this with everyone you know & ask them to peacefully call, email, & contact Senator Murkowski’s office.
Please also make a plan to vote ✅ YES to Ballot Measure 2 to DEFEAT Ranked Choice Voting this November.
This is a massive, earth-shattering story.
Our elections aren’t secure & the Senate is doing nothing about it.
MEMO TO: J B Pritzker
SUBJECT: Addressing the problems of Illinois
When is the last time we heard you speak to the serious problems facing Illinois that YOU and the Democrats in Springfield have created, and how you will address them?
The highest property taxes in the nation, pension debt, failing schools, highest combined state and local taxes, lowest bond rating, 46th in wage growth, 46th in private sector job growth, fiscal instability, outward migration of residents and businesses, just to name a few of the problems now facing the state you “govern”
You choose not to speak to any of these problems as if they don’t exist
Instead you defer your rhetoric to non-issues and personal attacks as a narcissist looking to escape blame typically does
You are literally an embarrassment to the state of Illinois
END OF MEMO
Now that the Florida primary is over, let’s come together in support of
the SAVE America Act.
If every election were run like Florida’s elections, our country would be a safer nation.
@RealScott31
Black Christian Pastor Just TORCHED the ENTIRE Muslim-Occupied Dearborn City Council: ‘This is Sharia Law!’
“You are only 1% of this nation”
“We are not a nation of Muslims, we are a nation of CHRISTIANS”
“Enough is enough”
Pure fire ✝️🔥