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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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And cook county elected this dummy again!
Cook county make better choices next election or live with your choices!!!!
I’m with Nixit on this one – “Foxx only got 45% of the vote outside Chicago. It’s the 64% of the Chicago vote that got her re-elected. O’Brien won the suburbs…goes to show you just how much of a heavy lift it is to unseat Cook County Dems.”
Not to mention Dem’s in Illinois generally. All too often with “Republican” connivance, Illinois Democrats retain power in already bankrupt Illinois by buying votes in every election with new promises funded by “wish sandwich” $’s.
And yet this week Crains posts flattering podcast interview of said Ms Foxx, the reporter not posing a single challenging question while editorially fawning over her. White liberal voters are responsible for Foxx’s election and Foxx’s continued entitlement of failed policies which encourage street-crime activity and enable POC offenders to “self-justify” their criminal actions. We should all be compelled to watch that video of unfortunate CTA bus-driver beaten and stomped last Saturday night during the Michigan Ave/Millennium Park melee. Video displays feral behavior enabled by misguided badly-conceived social policy. There’s an obvious failure of political and civic leadership in Chicago.… Read more »
Blame goes one step further to the voting public which reelected Foxx, Evans, and Preckwinkle in elections which were not close. In their election campaigns, they proposed to reduce the number of black men in jail in the name of social justice. No one should be surprised that they have adopted the policies that would bring that about. When questioned, the Progressive Milwaukee DA stated plainly that his similar policy would no doubt result in crimes committed by those out on low or no bond, but that in his view, such occurrences would not mean the catch-and-release policy was bad.… Read more »
Foxx only got 45% of the vote outside Chicago. It’s the 64% of the Chicago vote that got her re-elected. O’Brien won the suburbs. A large number of normally straight ticket Democratic voters voted for O’Brien. Wasn’t enough, obvs, which just goes to show you just how much of a heavy lift it is to unseat Cook County Dems.
I saw that beating, what was worse was how the crowd was entertained by it. But in the words of James Kraus, one of the prosecutors in the murder trial of Kyle Rittenhouse, “everybody takes a beating sometimes.”
Hmmm….I wonder if anyone has begun negotiations regarding a reduced sentence for revealing who really orchestrated this fiasco. It was so sloppily structured, it’s got Democratic finger prints everywhere. Their mistake was recruiting an idiot. Sounds like a Martha’s Vineyard plot
Link didn’t work for me
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10285801/Kim-Foxx-woke-Chicago-DA-tried-help-Jussie.html
Thanks. Fixed it.