Then-Illinois Network of Charter Schools President Andrew Broy at a news conference at Chicago Public School headquarters in 2014. He's now the INCS CEO and treasurer of the Super PAC.
Lightfoot appointees to the City Council — Monique Scott, 24th, Timmy Knudsen, 43rd, Anabel Abarca, 12th, and Nicole Lee, 11th — benefited from tens of thousands of dollars in spending by the realtor PAC as well. Walz’s “concern for the burden on property owners and housing providers while also providing adequate, safe, suitable housing for renters in the city” earned the PAC’s support, Baker said. Walz will not rely on “property taxes as this endless well of financial support for the city and not continuously looking to overburden property owners with regulation,” he said.
The group is again supporting Stephanie Coleman, 16th, Felix Cardona, 31st, and Emma Mitts, 37th, who all have charters in their ward. INCS is also supporting newcomer Jessica Gutierrez in the 30th Ward and incumbent 36th Ward Ald. Gilbert Villegas, who is being challenged by Lori Torres Whitt, a Chicago Teachers Union leader.
The INCS Super PAC’s largest funders are James Frank, founder of the automotive fleet leasing and management company Wheels Inc., and Alice Walton and James Walton, siblings and heirs to the Walmart fortune. Together, they have given nearly $7 million in recent years. Those same donors are supportive of INCS’s regular PAC, which has been more involved in state races.
Duchossois Group CEO Craig Duchossois, the Illinois Restaurant Association, and the Building Owners and Managers Association have all contributed as well.
Realtors: and there is the cornerstone of the housing inequality crises... unfettered , free range real estate prices. There's no *incentive* to stop the escalation. 'Bubbles-r- us', until 70% of US citizens are housing impoverished.