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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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In 2020, Foxx only received 23% of the vote in Orland Township. No love loss down there.
Well that’s clearly racist.
Her popularity in high crimes communities is off the charts, getting 79% of the vote in Thorton Township, 68%in Oak Park Township, 53% in Berwyn Township, 59% in Cicero Township, 70% in Rich Township.
Barrington? 29%, Lemont Township 19%. She got only 39% in the wokey woke New Trier Township.
Criminals LOVE LOVE LOVE Kim Foxx.
Somebody gets it and is willing to do something