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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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Better yet count the votes BEFORE they are cast. This way they can call the election a week before.
They cannot win without cheating.
You have nothing without ballot integrity.
Count every illegal vote
Now that I have stopped laughing, is this really how a civilized nation wants to count ballots. And the best part is–“with no postmarks”. Sounds kinda’ like– “Hey,if we lose we need two weeks to see how many votes we need to steal”.
Has anyone ever seen a copy of the voter registration rolls. My younger child is an apartment dweller and received 7 mail-in ballots in the 2020 election. All were former residents in the rental unit who at one time bothered to vote.
“challenging a state elections law that allows election officials to count mail-in ballots up to 14 days after Election Day, even if the ballots aren’t postmarked. Seriously? This law might come back to bite them in the butt, as hundreds of thousands of downstate votes magically appear with no postmark days after the election. Oh look, Henry County, population 50,000, somehow had a turnout of 220,000 votes this election, all of which were for Bailey and appeared 10 days after the election without postmark. Sorry JB, you lost, and you can’t argue fraud either, nope you can’t, you’ll put democracy… Read more »