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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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Good luck. Just file with intent to recall. Then collect at least 680k signatures (probably need about 750k to account for challenges) within 150 days of filing. Make sure you have at least 20 (at least 10 from each party) signatures from the Illinois House and 10 (at least 5 from each party) signatures from the Senate. Do all that and then you need to convince the majority of Illinois voters to recall him. The same voters that provided Pritzker with a margin of victory of more than 700k votes. What a colossal waste of time. Maybe that’s why he… Read more »
Why threaten? Please start a recall. You most certainly have my vote.
Do it.
I hope the State Rep follows thru with it. I applied for the PUA unemployment and uploaded my tax return. Now it is all hanging out there for everyone in the public to see.
Great job, Fatboy. Hope they hang you by your balls.
Yawn. Wake me when the recall motion is actually filed. Words are cheap
Email rep Allen Skillicorn and tell him you are in favor of recalling this governor it’s a must that he understands how people feel about Pritzker. This will be a huge undertaking but a must if we the people in Illinois are to survive with are constitutional rights.
Let’s do it rock on time to get this man out of office, best news I’ve heard in a while, just hope they follow through
Threatens? Do it. Do something! Maybe your job? Geez
Let’s start a bingo game. Get your cards. If you have any of the following, you win: “It’s Rauner’s fault” “This is why we need the progressive tax — we need more resources” “I inherited this. No, not a billion dollars, this…this terrible IDES system.” “Shutup and stay home” “This is exactly why you should follow the shutdown orders…it could overwhelm the system!” “Logic, science and data. I’m just listening to the experts.” (huh?) “Listen, if I had known this would have been the job, I don’t think I would have run for this job. I was just hoping for… Read more »