{"id":230,"date":"2026-07-29T12:05:04","date_gmt":"2026-07-29T17:05:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/governedbyidiots.com\/?p=230"},"modified":"2026-07-29T12:05:04","modified_gmt":"2026-07-29T17:05:04","slug":"last-week-a-session-of-the-city-council-saw-the-mayor-and-aldermen-wrangle-over-ballot-measures-our-warner-todd-huston-asks-if-these-ballot-questions-outweigh-other-matters-needing-urgent-a","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/governedbyidiots.com\/?p=230","title":{"rendered":"\u200bLast week, a session of the City Council saw the mayor and aldermen wrangle over ballot measures. Our Warner Todd Huston asks if these ballot questions outweigh other matters needing urgent attention. https:\/\/www.chicagocontrarian.com\/blog\/chicago-city-council-wasting-time-ballot-measures\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Last week, a session of the City Council saw the mayor and aldermen wrangle over ballot measures.<\/p>\n<p>Our Warner Todd Huston asks if these ballot questions outweigh other matters needing urgent attention.<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.chicagocontrarian.com\/blog\/chicago-city-council-wasting-time-ballot-measures\">chicagocontrarian.com\/blog\/c\u2026<\/a><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><b>Link<\/b><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.chicagocontrarian.com\/blog\/chicago-city-council-wasting-time-ballot-measures\"><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/nitter.net\/pic\/card_img%2F2082512252788248576%2FNsL7aqK4%3Fformat%3Djpg%26name%3D800x419\" \/><br \/>\n<br \/>\n<b>Chicago City Council Wasting Time with Ballot Measures | Chicago Contrarian<\/b><br \/>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Is debating a millionaires tax or ICE a top priority at the moment?<\/p>\n<p><small><a href=\"https:\/\/www.chicagocontrarian.com\/blog\/chicago-city-council-wasting-time-ballot-measures\">chicagocontrarian.com<\/a><\/small><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last week, a session of the City Council saw the mayor and aldermen wrangle over ballot measures. Our Warner Todd Huston asks if these ballot questions outweigh other matters needing urgent attention. chicagocontrarian.com\/blog\/c\u2026 Link Chicago City Council Wasting Time with Ballot Measures | Chicago Contrarian Is debating a millionaires tax or ICE a top priority [&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-230","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cnn-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/governedbyidiots.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/230","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=230"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/governedbyidiots.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/230\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/governedbyidiots.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=230"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/governedbyidiots.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=230"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/governedbyidiots.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=230"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}