{"id":134301,"date":"2024-06-19T21:46:18","date_gmt":"2024-06-20T01:46:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/?p=134301"},"modified":"2024-06-19T21:46:18","modified_gmt":"2024-06-20T01:46:18","slug":"mayor-brandon-johnson-faces-scrutiny-over-30k-haircuts-and-makeup-expenses","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/?p=134301","title":{"rendered":"MAYOR BRANDON JOHNSON FACES SCRUTINY OVER $30K HAIRCUTS AND MAKEUP EXPENSES"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson is\u00a0facing scrutiny<\/a>\u00a0over his $30,000 hair and makeup budget, with some amounts seemingly unpaid to the establishments listed as recipients. However, Johnson\u2019s campaign advisor said that the discrepancy resulted from a vendor who put the wrong name in the disclosure filing sent to the State of Illinois.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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As the\u00a0Chicago Sun-Times<\/em>\u00a0reports, in response to questions about a $4,000 payment to Anthony Jones Salon, which the proprietor told the outlet he never received, Bill Neidhardt, Johnson\u2019s campaign advisor, told the outlet: \u201cThe vendor that does our expenditure reports, we gave them the name of the business and they wrote down the wrong one.\u201d Neidhardt also indicated that the filing \u201cwill be amended\u201d to reflect that the money was actually spent with AJ Styles Barber and Beauty Salon.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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According to elections board records obtained by the outlet, the progressive mayor pays for his personal grooming appointments with money contributed by supporters of Johnson\u2019s Friends of Brandon Johnson campaign fund. Over the past year, grooming payments, including haircuts and skincare, totaled in excess of $30,000.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

MAYOR BRANDON JOHNSON Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson is\u00a0facing scrutiny\u00a0over his $30,000 hair and makeup budget, with some amounts seemingly unpaid to the establishments listed as recipients. However, Johnson\u2019s campaign advisor said that the discrepancy resulted from a vendor who put the wrong name in the disclosure filing sent to the State of Illinois. As the\u00a0Chicago […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":88889,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pmpro_default_level":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[186],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-134301","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-u-s-government","pmpro-has-access"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/134301","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/88889"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=134301"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/134301\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":134303,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/134301\/revisions\/134303"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=134301"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=134301"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=134301"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}