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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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Rove should be tried and prosecuted as a war criminal alongside Bush and Cheney, then we can deal with the current traitors in power. Trump was 100% spot on the pulse of the nation with America first. Rove, Clinton, Bush, Obama, Biden and the rest of the uni-party deep state need to be banished forever before we become subjects of some nameless bureaucrats in Geneva or Brussels. And Irvin is not exemplary of the new Republican party or the needs of the people, he is a pandering hack eagerly willing to sell us oput for his silver.
The WSJ lost its way a long time ago. Karl Rove’s brand of conservatism is better defined as corporatism. It’s not what the US or any state actually needs.
Although it is interesting that he chose IL to pick on. As though Irvin in the governor’s seat in IL would actually mean a better IL.
Rove sees in Irvin another R gov the Uniparty can own.
Respectfully disagree about WSJ. Yes, they print Rove’s stuff, but I think they shed their old country club GOP ways and that the editorial board is mow mostly in line the new populist GOP and Trump policy agenda, though they don’t like him as a leader.
Corporatism isn’t bad in theory as long as the corporations support Republicans back. These days, corporations are actively fomenting hate and division with their woke social justice agenda. That’s why Democrats love corporatism these days as a tool to further their own goals.
The open question, it seems to me, is what “fringe” and “too conservative” truly mean now. The ground under our feet has shifted drastically against the left in recent months.
There’s no definition for these words. They’re slanderous talking points.
Probably varies by area of the country. Sorry to say I agree Bailey is likely too conservative for IL and doesn’t have much of a chance of winning the general. Too bad, I like him. If he wins the primary, you can add him to the list (Akin, Christine O’Donnell, Sharron Angle, Roy Moore come to mind immediately) of missed opportunities. Now that I mention it, MO might be about to blow it again this year 🙁
No, missed opportunities. Stop drinking the Kool-Aid.
In Delaware, the Republican nominee BEFORE Christine O’Donnell lost by a 41% margin. I don’t mean he got 41% of the votes. I mean the SPREAD was -41%.
The Republican nominee statewide in Delaware AFTER Christine O’Donnell lost by a 37% spread.
So Christine O’Donnell did BETTER than any Republican nominee in Delaware for statewide office since Senator Bill Roth.
So put “the fringe” down as the strongest candidates most likely to win