Why Illinois is the most corrupt state in the nation

[@mattt198654321]

The problem with Illinois is there is just too much damn government. We have more units of government than states that are 3x bigger than us. Too many opportunities for bad actors to take advantage of the system, and not enough oversight. Let's start by consolidating all the townships into the counties, and school districts with only one school into their larger neighbors. Then we can move on to consolidating anything that ends in "district" into the nearest city or county. Fire district and park district should be merged into the nearest city. Drainage district and mosquito district merged into the county. Those on the payroll will complain that there is nobody else who can do what they do. Baloney. Keep going.

[@illinoispolicy]

Consolidation is a great anti-corruption reform. Plus it gets us property tax relief. We can start with the school district bureaucracy, there's too much money flowing to admin and not enough to students: www.illinoispolicy.org/illinois-education-spending-belongs-in-classrooms-not-in-administrative-offices/

[@PolarBear0110]

To paraphrase Star Wars "Chicago Illinois you will never find a more wretched hive of scum and villainy."

[@briansullivan2831]

I AGREE BUT REMEMBER HARRISON FORD [HAN SOLO ] IS A DEMOCRAT

[@outlawblack123]

Harrison Ford is from Chicago

[@markmarkofkane8167]

Yup. The ones in power now make Al Capone look like a saint.

[@garydergut4741]

Lobbyist should be in illegal to begin with. It is just legalized bribery.

[@afterlightstorytime]

It would be hysterical to recreate this video with an upbeat tempo and deliver the exact same script with energy and excitement.

[@illinoispolicy]

😂

[@ln9119]

The dirge music and depressed tone is fitting though, since as has been commented, these changes can't come because the lawmakers would have to vote in these and that is not going to happen. Like he said, the fox guarding the henhouse. The video does not mention that the majority of the corruption has ties to Chicago/Cook County and the state is held hostage to a Cook dominated legislature. Separation and forming a state without Cook County is the only hope I see. We lay the groundwork for that through getting Illinois Separation Referendum on the ballot in as many counties as possible and later use that vote to hold the representatives' and senators' feet to the fire for a YES vote on statehood. As in, REPRESENT US and vote "YES" on the statehood bill or vote "NO" and risk your constituents turning on you when you are up for re-election.

[@jimmymccoy967]

Chicago Democrats……enough said

[@justinratcliffe947]

Republicans are bad too

[@mmmmslap6200]

Mike Madigan was indicted today. It only took like 40 years to bust the crook.

[@illinoispolicy]

We were happy to play a part in exposing Madigan's abuse of power. Now it's time to dismantle the systems he built. kzbin.info/www/bejne/kJi5gWZ-ZpdlpNk

[@ironaddicted]

It doesn't matter, he won't be punished. He probably has so much dirt on everybody

[@garydergut4741]

And they probably will never do anything to him. How about his daughter , I can't believe she isn't as dirty as dear old Pappa.

[@isaacliu896]

@@ironaddicted not on the feds. just like blagojevich. the feds have a lot of potential for cleaning things up

[@BobSperber]

Glad I found you. Looking forward to checking out more.

[@lu_re7198]

Thank you for all the work that you do.

[@illinoispolicy]

Thanks for watching!

[@TroyStoneking]

I agree with what’s said in this video, but as Rob Pento asked, how do we get the reforms in place? The people who need to be subject to the reforms are also the ones who have to vote them into law. I don’t see that happening as it would serve to remove power and benefits from those who are enjoying the current corrupt systems in Illinois.

[@illinoispolicy]

Step 1) Ask your lawmaker whether they support these reforms. Step 2) If they don't, tell your friends and vote accordingly. www.illinoispolicy.org/maps/

[@Vintage-Bob]

@@illinoispolicy Yeah, because voting works so well. You seem to be completely ignorant of how voting actually works in Illinois.

[@huverdoose]

What's most infuriating to me is the 'rules for thee but not for me'. The fact that we have so much ethics 'training' and have to worry about getting fired for accepting some bauble at a conference or a lunch at McDonald's while they somehow make millions... Or how about the fact that they require outside contractors to pay their workers prevailing wages but when the state workers seek the same they're told "no" ? If they strike to get them, the governor just says "nah, get back to work guys. No prevailing wages and no striking for you."

[@StaciEnglish]

You NEED to understand that corruption begins when public complaint is belittled. As long as complaint is belittled rather than treated as an opportunity for improvement, corruption will impact the most vulnerable. FAILING to prohibit belittlement leads to such high levels of normalization that people do not recognize belittlement when they say it. Resistance to improvement is clearly a red flag that belittlement has a deleterious effect on administrative ability to resolve public complaint.

[@RobPento]

How would the proposed solutions be enacted? Referendum? If so, who controls what and if a referendum gets on a ballot? The state legislature?

[@illinoispolicy]

State lawmakers in the House and Senate can pass bills for every single reform we talk about here. You can ask your lawmaker if they support these reforms here: www.illinoispolicy.org/maps/

[@cdw070]

Love Illinois Policy!

[@illinoispolicy]

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[@neilthackeray6640]

These solutions would require the Legislature to sign on to them, and that's just not going to happen. The system is far too corrupt now.

[@ln9119]

My thoughts EXACTLY. Here is more: Sometimes you just need to STOP and start over without certain "DNA". I think lawmakers should be banned from being a lobbyist period. I am also thinking that a lawmaker should have to take at least a year off before running for a different public office. That would #1 slow down political ladder climbing and #2 help them stay in tune with doing actual WORK for a paycheck. In the 2017 University of Chicago's Political Science Department's paper, even the Downstate cases had ties to Chicago men ... Martin Sandoval and Michael Madigan. We need to take a farmer approach to corruption and cut the head off the 🐍 snake. It will be messy for a while, but in the end, peaceful.

[@goldenchild4574]

I'm so glad I fled Illannoy. I tell people in my new state that I'm a politcal refugee, but I don't think they fully comprehend what I mean. Illannoy really is the worst state in the union.

[@BioHazard3600]

Politically it is the worst state due to it’s corruption but I do love this state, we gotta separate it from the government

[@TexasRedFam]

Left 5yrs ago, Illinois cant be fixed, The systems in place are self perpetuating, Sorry for Bailing, But I recommend anyone who can, Leave ASAP

[@marshafish6984]

What a mess😵‍💫

[@michaelkreisel3573]

One year bufffer. Lobbying needs to be illegal! 😡

[@dublgee9539]

Time to clean house!

[@Nan-59]

So, what is the every day citizen supposed to do about all this corruption...?

[@Datacorrupter234]

sit in line at the nearest soup kitchen

[@AdBoyGenius]

yea l live here, moving out first chance l get.

[@markoshea6833]

...go, Where there's no Irish, we all dream. The Irish and State jobs aren't a match made in Heaven.

[@Ugfromumantman]

​@@markoshea6833damn havnt seen the irish put on blast in a minute

[@terminalogicalinexactitude5622]

WHAT ABOUT LISA THE DAUGHTER AG ?? SHE RAN PROTECTION AND INTERFERENCE FOR THE FAMILY RACKET.

[@Literallyarealhuman]

I’ve lived in Illinois Chicago for a few years being from somewhere else gives me a better view of things. I think I feel that people are very argumentative. They believe that everywhere else must be more corrupt or as corrupt but it’s just not the case they allow it and allow it and allow it based on this. But here actually cares, and the people who do care are completely misled by micro agendas.

[@jonathanmartin5605]

Hopefully you can read this attachment. In 2012 I attempted too assist a young lady in her bid to unseat Madigan. Of course Madigan had two twin goons, Ed and Fred Moody, following her everywhere she went.

[@jonathanmartin5605]

Key words here, in my opinion, after spending 9.3 years in Crooked County Government, are "Systemic Corruption."

[@ElParacletoPodcast]

Stand your ground, don’t pay taxes, it is your money, it is your right.

[@manuellopes7144]

love an light

[@HighSpeedNoDrag]

Murder

[@HighSpeedNoDrag]

Malice-A-Fore-Thought.

[@thegrandlevel313]

A union executive getting a lifetime teacher pension after substitute teaching for one day is just smart.

[@TheRealestBsdFan]

This is where I live

[@evacameron8670]

Christian people are falsely accused

[@MrBobochow]

When will people start saying enough is enough and start picking outsiders.

[@badpiggies988]

They just gerrymandered Illinois so badly, it almost makes Texas’ map look good

[@tonistarostka9400]

Why am I getting an email addressed to Tom? Toni

[@roudyman777]

Imagine working for 50 years in a hard labor job to get a pension then some rando walks in, buys a candy bar from the vending machine, then leaves and they get a pension 3x higher than yours simply because it was some politicians 2nd cousin. Yeah, that's Chicago politics.

[@markoshea6833]

the Irish are shameless. They Die Hard in terms of embarrassment.

[@TeslaBoy123]

Still happening today increase and increase taxes and taxes for all residents on every single Illinois county

[@evacameron8670]

charge drug dealers fines Petrone and Rodriguez

[@samuelblackwell3762]

And it'll never stop now billionaire's now joining the action

[@rebajason1460]

Depressing music, depressing subject. I couldn’t watch the whole thing

[@JohnnyVegaMusic]

Helppppppppppppp😢😢😢😢😢

[@markoshea6833]

Be steadfast. Irish mooks can be defeated.

[@sardawg7665]

... I'd say CA and IL are tied for first

[@ElParacletoPodcast]

Your ideas are gullible, we don’t need any government, we need private companies to run our country. Let’s take clean water, we don’t need politicians making laws or telling us how much we going to pay for clean water, we need a system, a mathematical system that will tell us exactly how much we need to maintain that system.

[@markoshea6833]

have to go back to water tanks and old stuff like that. Water tanks are mentioned in Back Where I Come From by Kenny Chesney. And The Perfect Heresy by Canadian Stephen O'Shea.

[@stevieRay3211]

And the IL Dem voters bleat their approval.

[@evacameron8670]

the marijuana culture is in your school

[@evacameron8670]

use private schools

[@ruthlachar994]

And where did America get Obama from.

[@evacameron8670]

Latin Kings win, just losery

[@melissawarhurst8323]

Incredible 😳 every city and county , state, whatever. Open the books. It's time for an audit

[@ln9119]

Andrew Andreweski (sp) has an organization called OpenTheBooks. Chicago gets named a lot in his speeches... least transparent financially.

[@khukri_wielderxxx1962]

Try to do this and they'll do to you what Trudeau did to the Canadian Truckers