Wirepoints’ Mark Glennon on AM560’s Morning Answer
April 22, 2026
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Rep. Bustos chaired the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee during the 2020 cycle, when the GOP, defying expectations, flipped a dozen blue seats red, taking a big bite out of the Democrats’ House majority. After stepping down from the DCCC chair role following the 2020 elections, Bustos remained part of House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s leadership team.
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Mark Glennon on AM560’s Morning Answer: Chicago Fiscal Crisis Worse Than Pre-Bankruptcy Detroit, HIV Surge and Public Health Threat From Open Borders Goes Unreported
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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
April 3, 2026
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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.
Wasn’t Rep Bustos greatest accomplishment carrying the bucket of botox Nancy Pelosi requires to look alive? Fine example of what’s wrong with Illinois and our Congress.
I’m guessing that she’s already been promised a do nothing job as some assistant deputy supervisor of something with a six figure salary.
She is a socialist do nothing loser. Good riddance.
Gerrymandered district she represents that goes from the quad cities on the Mississippi River all the way east into a sliver of land in the Rockford area. The whole districting thing is a disgrace. Put some common sense in the mix and come up with districts that dont look like drunken snakes.