{"id":166979,"date":"2025-02-28T07:00:36","date_gmt":"2025-02-28T12:00:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=166979"},"modified":"2025-02-26T13:14:44","modified_gmt":"2025-02-26T18:14:44","slug":"political-friday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=166979","title":{"rendered":"Political Friday"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Opening with some good news – our favorite Chicago-area mayor, Tiffany Henyard, is gonna be gone.<\/p>\n

The incumbent and embattled Henyard lost Tuesday\u2019s Democratic primary to Trustee Jason House by a landslide, with House winning nearly 90% of the vote.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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.<\/p>\n

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.<\/p>\n

Henyard has said she will still run for reelection as Thornton Township Supervisor as a write-in candidate.\u00a0 WGN TV<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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.<\/p>\n

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Then we get to Sheldon Whitehouse, a Democrat Senator from Rhode Island.<\/p>\n

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.<\/p>\n

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.<\/p>\n

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.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

According to Foundation for Accountability and Civic Trust (FACT)”s Kendra Arnold:<\/p>\n

“Altogether, Ocean Conservancy has spent millions on federal lobbying expenses over the years on issues relating to oceans, climate change, and environmental cleanup\u2014issues directly championed by Senator Whitehouse, a longtime member (and current Ranking Member) of the Senate\u2019s Environment and Public Works Committee and the co-founder of the Senate\u2019s so-called ‘Oceans Caucus.”<\/p>\n

Since 2010, Ocean Conservancy has paid Whitehouse a total of $2,686,800 either directly or through her firm, per tax documents. Fox News<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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.<\/p>\n

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One last little thing – you wonder at the apparently outsized influence the LGBTQ crowd seems to wield, especially among young folks?\u00a0 This may provide a clue:<\/p>\n

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.<\/p>\n

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.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Here’s the kicker:<\/p>\n

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<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Maybe instead of Gen Z we should call them the “Confused Generation”?\u00a0 One point to remember… polls also predicted Trump would lose.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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