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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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One party rule forever just like any People’s Republic
I don’t even know what number my district is right now. Just know that Raja is current rep, but election is Casten/Pekau.
I think there is a chance this is flipped, but perhaps I am just living in a dream world.
How the heck did a Henry Hyde district turn into this? What the heck happened to DuPage?
Many legacy or native DuPage Republicans either died or moved in the previous two decades. Foreign born Democrat voters and their Democrat voting progeny purchased their homes and rented their former apartments. Almost 30% of the county doesn’t speak English at home. The non-natives combined with the AWFL’s is over 50% of the population of DuPage County. A small handful of these two groups show up in the primaries to nominate the progressives and all of them show up in Nov. to elect Democrats.
And, heavily Republican areas like Elmhurst were put in even heavier Democratic districts where their votes get diluted. Elmhurst’s old district was Quigley’s and snaked all the way from the lakefront to DuPage. Our old district went from being with Republican Wheaton to Democratic Schaumburg with Raja. They cut up the Republican areas and made them minorities in heavily Democratic districts. Now, we’re with Tim Scott and Lindsey Graham, along with quite a few other DuPagers.
That new map is just plain embarrassing. It is the worst map in the nation after NY’s got thrown out in court.
On the campaign trail didn’t JB promise fair maps? I guess no one asked, ‘fair to whom?’
Use that one too, Mr. Bailey!
Fair to the D’s but not fair to the R’s.