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Two Democratic members of the Illinois State Board of Elections who helped block nearly $10 million in campaign fines against Democratic Senate President Don Harmon have political ties to organizations that contributed disputed, above-limit donations to Harmon and continued giving to him even as the case was pending before the board.
Summary and audio linked here.
Chicago’s political leadership is floating a pension buyout program as evidence it is seriously addressing the city’s thirty-six-billion-dollar unfunded pension liability, but Mark Glennon, founder of the Illinois policy research organization Wirepoints, said that the proposal moves debt from one column to another rather than reducing it, and that the broader fiscal picture facing the city continues to deteriorate across every measurable dimension. Audio here.
Expect no retraction or apology. This what they do.
The state’s existing buyout program for its own pensions is the precedent for Chicago, which should be a warning: Look out for similar exaggerated claims and shoddy analysis.
Full interview and summary linked here.
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Another crooked spoke in the wheel of corruption
This clown is the brain child for the gun and magazine ban in the wee hours of the morning along with the rest of his democratic ilk. I hope a orange jumpsuit is in his future
It’s “THE CHICAGO WAY.” It lives on forever
No fine, and what are the odds legislators will close the loophole/repair vague language to make it clear that what Harmon did can’t be repeated?
Look at that pic folks – That’s what a big time crook looks like.
Corrupt democrats protecting corrupt democrats , gee whiz that’s original