Desperate Berrios and the ‘Republican’ Lie
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Via – The Chicago Tribune
“You can’t blame Cook County Assessor Joe Berrios for running scared.
The work of his office has been hammered in a series of investigative reports by the Tribune in conjunction with ProPublica Illinois that show wealthy property owners benefiting disproportionately from the secretive, error-prone assessment process he oversees.
Republican Gov. Bruce Rauner and Democratic gubernatorial hopeful Chris Kennedy have recently called for him to resign, and Thursday a group of public-interest lawyers filed a civil rights lawsuit in Cook County Circuit Court alleging that Berrios is “perpetuating institutional racism” by shifting the property tax burden disproportionately onto poor and minority owners.”
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