Among the resolutions pushed by the AFT: single-payer health care, free college and opposition to the Dakota Access pipeline, support for “anti-war groups,” removal of the U.S.’s Terminal High Altitude Area Defense system in South Korea and more.

The union’s Berkeley affiliate wants President Trump’s “immediate resignation or removal.”

We do indeed. Wirepoints, too. This is the most challenging, deliberately opaque part of our pension crisis. In Illinois, for public workers, they are constitutionally guarantied along with pension benefits. Over $50 billion of obligations are entirely unfunded just for state pensioners. From the article: “EB liabilities are perhaps the greatest single under-reported and under-scrutinized unfunded liability within our state and municipal employee retirement systems.”

Comment: This is a big issue. It’s a racket — lawyers often taking excessive referral fees on title insurance, driving up the cost.

Illinois Auditor General Frank Mautino is under federal investigation, won’t testify to the elections board and can’t run for office again because his now defunct campaign committee hasn’t paid a fine for wrong doing.