In 1930, Illinois had a 27 member congressional delegation, after 2020 census, it will be 17 – Wirepoints on the Annie Frey Show

Wirepoints Founder Mark Glennon joins the Annie Frey Show to talk census data and population loss.

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Old Spartan
5 years ago

And it is even worse than just the simple loss of a large number of seats. We have lost key chairmen and almost all of our clout in DC. Bob Michel was House GOP leader for many years. Danny Rostenkowski chairman of Ways and Means. Bill Lipinski chairman of House Transportation. And on and on. Dick Durbin used to be a good go- to- guy for Illinois before he jumped into the “equity,” BLM and “America is Racist” cesspool. Now he is worthless. No one in the Illinois delegation has has the respect or creates the fear that the good… Read more »

Bill
5 years ago

THANK GOD!!!

Ex Illini
5 years ago

JB calls this success. God help us all.

Riverbender
5 years ago
Reply to  Ex Illini

In my mind Illinois losing a congressional seat is in fact a success for the USA as a whole.

Not the Senator's Son
5 years ago

I like this lady. Keep the conservative voices flowing. Don’t mask them.

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Mark Glennon on AM560’s Morning Answer: Chicago pension buyout plan mostly shifts debt rather than eliminating it, property tax surge doubles inflation over three decades

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.

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