Political Friday
Opening with some good news – our favorite Chicago-area mayor, Tiffany Henyard, is gonna be gone.
The incumbent and embattled Henyard lost Tuesday’s Democratic primary to Trustee Jason House by a landslide, with House winning nearly 90% of the vote.
Ms. Henyard, you may recall, is the mayor who spent literally millions against a small town’s budget and ran it deeply in debt taking taxpayer funded trips to Las Vegas, spending tens of thousands on Amazon in an afternoon – a real sweetie.
Henyard does still remain in her other job as Thornton Township Supervisor, but her days in that role could be coming to an end, too, with the position also on the April 1 ballot. Henyard lost the Democratic nomination during a caucus in December and had a subsequent legal challenge in Cook County Circuit Court thrown out for being filed incorrectly.
Henyard has said she will still run for reelection as Thornton Township Supervisor as a write-in candidate. WGN TV
The soon-to-be-ex-Mayor Henyard does say she may run for higher office. Seems to me her talents would be about right for Governor – most of Illinois’ governors have done prison time for their antics in office.
Then we get to Sheldon Whitehouse, a Democrat Senator from Rhode Island.
The Democratic senator and climate hawk voted for key laws that provided funding for grants to the environmental non-profit group that works with his wife, Sandra Whitehouse, and pays her through a consulting firm.
Whitehouse’s wife, Sandra, is employed as president of consulting firm Ocean Wonks LLC and has been since 2017, per her LinkedIn page. Before that, she was a direct employee of Ocean Conservancy, serving as Senior Policy Adviser beginning in 2008.
Ocean Conservancy has received more than $14.2 million in federal grants since 2008, per USASpending.gov. During 2024 alone, it was given two sizable grants, one for $5.2 million from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) for marine debris cleanup in September and another for $1.7 million from the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), again to assist with marine debris cleanup.
According to Foundation for Accountability and Civic Trust (FACT)”s Kendra Arnold:
“Altogether, Ocean Conservancy has spent millions on federal lobbying expenses over the years on issues relating to oceans, climate change, and environmental cleanup—issues directly championed by Senator Whitehouse, a longtime member (and current Ranking Member) of the Senate’s Environment and Public Works Committee and the co-founder of the Senate’s so-called ‘Oceans Caucus.”
Since 2010, Ocean Conservancy has paid Whitehouse a total of $2,686,800 either directly or through her firm, per tax documents. Fox News
Let’s just say the optics are poor at best. Believe it was said about Lurleen Wallace running for George’s seat that “Bedfellows make strange politics”? Sounds lucrative, too.
One last little thing – you wonder at the apparently outsized influence the LGBTQ crowd seems to wield, especially among young folks? This may provide a clue:
The percentage of U.S. adults who identify as lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender or something other than heterosexual has continued to rise, hitting an all-time high of 9.3%, up from 7.6% in 2023, according to a Gallup report released Thursday.
Gallup conducted random telephone interviews over the last year with 14,000 adults living in all 50 states and found that about 900 identified as LGBTQ. That data was then weighted to ensure that the sample accurately reflects the demographics of the national population, which is how Gallup estimated that 9.3% of U.S. adults are LGBTQ. The survey reported margins of sampling error of plus or minus 4 percentage points among LGBTQ respondents.
Here’s the kicker:
Nearly one-quarter, 23.1%, of Gen Z identify as LGBTQ, according to the Gallup report, compared with 14.2% of millennials, who are 29 to 44; 5.1% of Generation X, who are 45 to 60; 3% of baby boomers, who are 61 to 79; and 1.8% of those 80 and older. NBC News
Maybe instead of Gen Z we should call them the “Confused Generation”? One point to remember… polls also predicted Trump would lose.
Category: "Your Tax Dollars At Work", LGBTQWERTY, Politics
“The Democratic senator and climate hawk voted for key laws that provided funding for grants to the environmental non-profit group that works with his wife, Sandra Whitehouse, and pays her through a consulting firm.”
And IMHO Sheldon Whitehouse is only the one sloppy enough to get caught this soon, who’s next to be exposed with their finger deep in the pudding?
She spent millions of dollars that weren’t hers and lived a lavish lifestyle on the taxpayers dime? Did she think she was a Democrat in Congress instead some burg’s mayor? She put down the race card, but the town is overwhelmingly black…
In a perfect world crooked, thieving politicians would be made to pay back their ill gotten monies, then go to prison for a long time and confused people would quietly live their lives without forcing it upon others. I won’t hold my breath for either to happen. I will get off my ass, grab some of the $ that I earned, and make a provision run to the K Roger Store.
Tiffany Henyard would be a sweet All-Points Logistics hire.
Phil Monkress (CEO of All-Points Logistics) would be a fool to let that type of talent fall by the wayside.
Stop all the teachers in the USA from telling their students what their sex should be and all the guys that were told that they have to be girls will be guys. I went to school where we still had ink wells on the desk that were being phased out due to the invention of the ball point pen and we were taught the 3
reading, riting and rithmatic, played stickball, 3 manhole cover punchball, chinese handball (asses up), stoopball, hit the penny, red light green light 123, flipping baseball and Davy Crocket cards, hide n seek, Simon says, mumbly peg with the pen knife, pea shooters, slingshots, johnny rides a pony, 4 wheel roller skating in the street, one twice three shoot (choosing sides for team games),, and dodge ball which we played in the school yard and basketball which we played in my friends drive way with the hoop mounted on the garage front.. This stuff I mentioned was in NYC.