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More body parts sold off to assure bondholders beat everybody else in bankruptcy court.
https://www.nbcchicago.com/blogs/ward-room/Pritzker-blind-trust-504178481.html
https://www.bettergov.org/news/analysis-illinois-law-hasnt-stopped-public-agencies-from-withholding-records
Yeah.
Comment: Not in Illinois, because our courts have ruled healthcare benefits to be part of pension benefits that cannot constitutionally be altered.
He is also the only legislative leader in the nation to head a state political party. As chairman of the Democratic Party of Illinois, Madigan simultaneously controls policy, politics and purse strings.
Ald. Tunney paints the Ricketts family’s campaign against his re-election as a right-wing maneuver. But the Ricketts sibling who’s been a consistent financial backer of Democrats gives a full-throated defense of her family’s anti-Tunney stance.
Illinois residents are fleeing the state in record numbers. The most recent U.S. Census numbers showed Illinois netted a loss of 114,000 residents to other states in 2018. How does Illinois rank under an apples-to-apples comparison based on population? Illinois is the nation’s third-biggest loser.
The Pritzker Agenda, at least as it existed when he was trying to convince Illinoisans to elect him.
“If there was such a thing as a dirty pool in Illinois politics — nothing is too dirty for politics in the Land of Lincoln — this would be Exhibit A for that proposition.”
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