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WHY ARE DEMOCRAT-MONOPOLY CITIES SUCH CESSPITS OF RACISM? Chicago Mayor Lightfoot Only Granting Interviews to ‘Black or Brown Journalists.’  I wonder how Lightfoot’s white wife feels about this. I wonder how the Asian and biracial reporters feel about this.

Also in Chicago: Gun violence in Chicago sharply up from last year as 48 people are shot over the weekend, at least 6 of them fatally.

Chicago’s last Republican mayor left office in 1931.

ATTORNEY GENERAL BARR: Why are Democrat-run cities such cesspits of racism?

“People talk about implicit racism or systemic racism: rhe racism in this country, look no further than our public education system,” Barr said during an interview with Fox News Channel’s Sean Hannity. “That’s a racist system maintained by the Democratic party and the teachers union, keeping inner city kids in failing schools instead of putting the resources in the hands of the parents to choose the schools to send their kids to. That’s empowering kids, that’s giving them a future.”

He’s right, you know.

WHY ARE DEMOCRAT-RUN CITIES SUCH CESSPITS OF CORRUPTION? Federal agents take Toledo city council members into custody amid bribery probe. It’s not quite “name that party” territory, but it does take wading past 15 paragraphs in this Toledo Blade article to finally discover: “Matt Cherry, president of city council and a Democrat like his accused colleagues, said he and other councilmen are cooperating with the investigation.”

WHY ARE DEMOCRAT MONOPOLY CITIES SUCH CESSPITS OF FISCAL PROFLIGACY?  Sloppy city bookkeeping ripe for abuse, Philly Controller says in audit. “Unexpectedly,” that headline at the Philadelphia Daily News completely undersells the problem:

Philadelphia’s government has the worst accounting practices among the nation’s 10 largest cities, with $924 million in bookkeeping errors alone last year, according to an audit released Tuesday by City Controller Rebecca Rhynhart.

That’s on top of the now-infamous missing $33 million, the discrepancy between what the city’s records say it has and what is in the bank — the result of a failure to reconcile the city’s cash account over several years, Rhynhart said at a news conference.

In total, the controller’s auditors found two “material weaknesses” and eight “significant deficiencies” in the fiscal 2017 books. The accounting terms refer to serious issues with the city’s internal financial controls.

“This is a major problem and needs to be treated that way by the mayor and the finance director on down,” Rhynhart told the Inquirer and Daily News. “If the City of Philadelphia is talking about tax increases, let’s get our house in order.”

$900 million here, $900 million there, and sooner or later you’re talking about real money.