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Progressive Chicago Teachers Union boss owes thousands in unpaid utility bills despite eye-popping salary
Fox News ^ | December 7, 2023 | Brandon Gillespie

Posted on 12/07/2023 4:26:48 PM PST by george76

Stacy Davis Gates owes more than $5,500, but makes more than $289,000

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The progressive president of the Chicago Teachers Union (CTU) owes thousands in unpaid utility bills despite making an eye-popping salary

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Stacy Davis Gates owes the city of Chicago $5,579 in unpaid water, sewer and trash bills as of Nov. 7, 2023, despite bringing home "at least" $289,000 a year.

Documents uncovered by the group show Davis Gates started a payment plan for the amount in July 2023, but quickly defaulted.

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This latest revelation adds to the mounting evidence of her hypocrisy. She spurns responsibility and accountability both in her role as CTU president and in her daily life, while pushing for 'wealthy' taxpayers to pay their ‘fair share,

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Davis Gates' bills were just a small part of the whopping $6.4 billion owed in unpaid fees, fines and other debts still owed to the city since the year 1990.

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Davis Gates' unpaid bills are just the latest instance of what some have criticized as "hypocrisy" from the progressive union leader.

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Last month she was billed for back taxes due to an "unlawful deduction" she took on a home in Indiana.

According to local news outlet WGN, the South Bend native filed paperwork claiming the Indiana home as her primary residence in 2007 while she was a Chicago Public Schools teacher. She also applied for a homestead tax exemption for the home, and it was granted and has been active since then.

"Davis Gates would pay four times more in Indiana property taxes if she didn’t take the homestead deduction," the IPI, which also investigated the matter, reported at the time.

In September, Davis Gates defended sending her son to a private school despite being an outspoken critic of them.

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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; US: Illinois; US: Michigan; US: Oregon
KEYWORDS: bills; chicago; progressive; tax; taxbills; taxes; teacher; teachers; teachersunion; teachersunions; teacherunion; teacherunions; union; unions
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1 posted on 12/07/2023 4:26:48 PM PST by george76
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I looked. Even though I didn’t need to.


2 posted on 12/07/2023 4:29:25 PM PST by Responsibility2nd (A truth that’s told with bad intent, Beats all the lies you can invent ~ Wm. Blake)
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Paying your bills on time is Whiteness.


3 posted on 12/07/2023 4:32:13 PM PST by Billthedrill
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One of the perks of political position is not having to pay bills that others must pay. You’ll often see that serving politicians owe significant taxes or fines or penalties and no one ever goes after them to pay these. If no one prosecutes, then they don’t get paid. Why that’s the case here is not obvious. This position doesn’t seem to qualify like say, an alderman or mayor.


4 posted on 12/07/2023 4:36:03 PM PST by Gen.Blather (Wait! I said that out loud? )
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To: george76

Only crackers pay bills .


5 posted on 12/07/2023 4:36:32 PM PST by ncalburt ( Gop DC Globalists are the evil ones )
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To: george76

Race card utilities.

“We be guwana not pais no rasis bills. We be kangs and kwanes!”

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6 posted on 12/07/2023 4:40:34 PM PST by TLI (ITINERIS IMPENDEO VALHALLA)
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To: george76

Buffet said we need higher taxes while he was contesting years worth of tax bills.

If they’re not lying, hypocrites they’re no longer alive.


7 posted on 12/07/2023 4:42:04 PM PST by Freest Republican (This space for rent)
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RATS, like union thug RATS or Student loan deadbeats don’t like to pay their bills. Bills are for the crackers to pay.


8 posted on 12/07/2023 4:45:07 PM PST by FlingWingFlyer (The damage Biden and his freak show is doing to America is not reversable.)
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It’s racist to expect him to pay his bills like whitey always does.


9 posted on 12/07/2023 4:55:13 PM PST by Bullish (...And just like that, I was dropped from the ping-list)
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To: Responsibility2nd

Me too. How?? How did I KNOW it would be a Blakk Womyn?


10 posted on 12/07/2023 4:55:30 PM PST by Nervous Tick ("First the Saturday people, then the Sunday people...": ISLAM is the problem!)
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How long does it take to accumulate $5,579 in trash water and sewage bills? Even in Chicago that did not happen over short period of time. You know, this crap has been going on for a long time and the odds are based on what I’ve seen in the past on stuff like this, she will at the last minute pay 50% of the bill and be forgiven the rest.


11 posted on 12/07/2023 4:57:16 PM PST by ChildOfThe60s ( If you can remember the 60s.....you weren't really there..)
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Brandon Gillespie is obviously a white supremacist for bringing this up.

Fun fact: her predecessor as CTU president, Jesse Sharkey, was a member of the Trotskyist International Socialist Organization.


12 posted on 12/07/2023 4:57:54 PM PST by Southside_Chicago_Republican (The more I learn about people, the more I like my dog. )
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I am sure all of her students can read and do math at grade level to justify that salary


13 posted on 12/07/2023 5:11:22 PM PST by dsrtsage ( Complexity is just simple lacking imagination)
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The Chicago Teacher's Union boss defends enrolling her kid in a private school.

"No kid of mine's goin' to one of them low-class public schools."

14 posted on 12/07/2023 5:19:29 PM PST by Liz (Women have tremendous power — their femininity, because men can't do without it. Sidney Sheldon)
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To: george76

What the hell is going on in this country? This should only be a entry on page 6, not a headline and it should start off with the term JAILED in the lead sentence.


15 posted on 12/07/2023 5:27:39 PM PST by ThePatriotsFlag (Accepting a false premise initiates conversational defeat.)
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Probably feels like she’s entitled to not pay. She’s a “public servant” you know. Everyone should be grateful for her and pay her bills for her. Where’s that GoFundMe, comrades?


16 posted on 12/07/2023 5:28:18 PM PST by vpintheak (There is no Trans. There is only mentally ill)
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To: george76

Whatever happened to shutting off her power and water?


17 posted on 12/07/2023 5:43:37 PM PST by Lake Living
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To: george76

Paying bills is for the little people.


18 posted on 12/07/2023 5:59:10 PM PST by marktwain
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To: Billthedrill
Paying your bills on time is Whiteness.

Being a responsible adult in any way, shape, or form is "Whiteness".

19 posted on 12/07/2023 6:01:07 PM PST by NorthMountain (... the right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed)
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Paying utility bills?! That’s for little people. And it’s racist.


20 posted on 12/07/2023 6:05:19 PM PST by Rummyfan (In any war between the civilized man and the savage, support the civilized of man)
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