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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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Miller – political hack of the century.
Miller – bought & paid for by Freddie Pritzker. “He who pays the piper plays the tune”
Miller – please disclose your sources of funding to ensure no conflict of interests.
Miller – your man is gonna lose in November.
Miller is Pritzker’s scrotum-caddy
Another Miller opinion piece filled with twitter-level ignorance of the law and conspiracy theories. He’s bloviating that Judge Grischow is wrong and he is right because of some obscure and non-applicable statute that says IEMA overrides IDPH statutes. This is QAnon level of conspiracy theory stuff. There’s been more than a dozen jurists who’ve reviewed the law – Judge Grischow, three appellate court judges, and 9 supreme court justices, and probably all of them (including the unpublished ILSC dissent by two Republican judges) and came to a different legal conclusion. But Rich’s legal QAnon conspiracy theories means that he knows… Read more »
He has been way, way, way behind the curve on this. Even on the politics of it. That’s the price of being a mouthpiece for the Springfield establishment.
Jb’s legal argument is that the IEMA law gives the executive branch nearly unlimited authority, almost king like power, to issue executive orders and edits for however he wishes, for however long he wants, for any reason he wants, without court review, while he alone can declare an emergency.
It’s a loser argument and it’s going nowhere. And it just gives ammunition to the IL GOP to call him a tyrant.
well then somebody better wake up the GOP debtsor because there still,in hibernation.
Don’t forget the racist dog whistles that only the QAnon left can hear…