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She wants to take on Springfield’s culture of harassment and intimidation.“ There’s a lot of dictatorship in Springfield and it’s a changing and moving environment,” she said. “The culture is a lot different today than it was as it relates to men and women relationships. It’s time for us to have those uncomfortable conversations around relations.”
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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From crains articale, lightfords gotten big time $ pay-o-la$ from comed as well. https://www.chicagobusiness.com/government/leading-contender-senate-president-strong-ally-comed
Once again, it’s the IL resident who suffers by, in this case, excessive user fees. Her actions and priorities align her well for a higher-level job in Springfield. What a horrible state in which to live.
I hope the IRS gets wind of this…payoffs are not deductible regardless of how they are classified.
Yep, that’s the most important issue in IL politics today: relationships in Springfield between the sexes. She has her priorities straight. She’ll do just fine.
Where she did talk about ethics reform, it was all “we’ll look at this, look at that, another commission, more hearings, listen to so and so.” She’s the worst combination of Cullerton and a whacked out progressive.
Sounds like a toxic work environment. A common symptom of group think.
replacing a bunch the corrupt boys club with aggressive progressive identity politics whack jobs. what could go wrong?
Perfectly said. That’s where we are going: Replacing the corrupt boys club with aggressive progressive identity politics whack jobs.