{"id":118,"date":"2026-07-13T13:12:55","date_gmt":"2026-07-13T18:12:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/governedbyidiots.com\/?p=118"},"modified":"2026-07-13T13:12:55","modified_gmt":"2026-07-13T18:12:55","slug":"in-his-latest-paul-vallas-writes-of-chicagosmayor-using-comforting-rhetoric-as-a-substitute-for-policies-to-solve-multiple-city-crises-describing-the-mayor-as-a-flim-flam-man-vallas-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/governedbyidiots.com\/?p=118","title":{"rendered":"\u200bIn his latest, Paul Vallas writes of @ChicagosMayor using comforting rhetoric as a substitute for policies to solve multiple city crises. Describing the mayor as a flim-flam man, Vallas says the mayor is only worsening conditions in Chicago. https:\/\/www.chicagocontrarian.com\/blog\/mayor-brandon-johnson-chicago-flim-flam\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In his latest, Paul Vallas writes of <a href=\"https:\/\/nitter.net\/ChicagosMayor\" title=\"Mayor Brandon Johnson\">@ChicagosMayor<\/a> using comforting rhetoric as a substitute for policies to solve multiple city crises.<\/p>\n<p>Describing the mayor as a flim-flam man, Vallas says the mayor is only worsening conditions in Chicago.<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.chicagocontrarian.com\/blog\/mayor-brandon-johnson-chicago-flim-flam\">chicagocontrarian.com\/blog\/m\u2026<\/a><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><b>Link<\/b><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.chicagocontrarian.com\/blog\/mayor-brandon-johnson-chicago-flim-flam\"><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/nitter.net\/pic\/card_img%2F2075732453730250752%2FqSudEHT2%3Fformat%3Djpg%26name%3D800x419\" \/><br \/>\n<br \/>\n<b>Mayor Brandon Johnson: Chicago\u2019s Flim-Flam Man | Chicago Contrarian<\/b><br \/>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<p>In Brandon Johnson, we&#8217;ve learned the reality has never come close to meeting the expectations and promises.<\/p>\n<p><small><a href=\"https:\/\/www.chicagocontrarian.com\/blog\/mayor-brandon-johnson-chicago-flim-flam\">chicagocontrarian.com<\/a><\/small><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In his latest, Paul Vallas writes of @ChicagosMayor using comforting rhetoric as a substitute for policies to solve multiple city crises. Describing the mayor as a flim-flam man, Vallas says the mayor is only worsening conditions in Chicago. chicagocontrarian.com\/blog\/m\u2026 Link Mayor Brandon Johnson: Chicago\u2019s Flim-Flam Man | Chicago Contrarian In Brandon Johnson, we&#8217;ve learned the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-118","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cnn-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/governedbyidiots.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/governedbyidiots.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/governedbyidiots.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/governedbyidiots.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/governedbyidiots.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=118"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/governedbyidiots.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/governedbyidiots.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=118"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/governedbyidiots.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=118"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/governedbyidiots.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=118"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}