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"The new map is so brazen that progressive elections analyst Drew Savicki found it would create up to 85 districts expected to be Democratic in the 118-seat state House, even though only 69 Democrats would be elected in a map that fairly reflected the proportional strength of each party. So while Democrats would naturally win a majority because they dominate the state, the Democratic plan would net them nearly 80 percent of the seats from less than 60 percent of the votes."
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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Pretty alarming when a Leftist paper like the WaPo is critical of the partisan election rigging practices of Illinois Democrats. There is absolutely no shame in Illinois.
Yes, but this a red herring, a distraction. The piece suggests that to ‘combat’ gerrymandering the solution is to pass HR 1 which makes legal all of the worst voting laws in the country like: voting season instead of election day, ballot harvesting, no voter ID laws, absentee ballots for any reason, mailed ballots to all registered voters, real or fake, alive or dead, not allowing regular and routine voter roll purges, etc. And they know too that ‘non-partisan’ map drawing commissions are anything but. They are packed with partisans, pass overwhelmingly partisan maps, and then legislators point to the… Read more »
I should have know better – it’s always ‘bait’n switch’ with Democrats.
Simple solution: LEAVE Illinois and defund the state.