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Orland Park Mayor Keith Pekau said, "I personally do not want to see the city of Chicago become the standard for how we conduct public safety because they have abandoned their police officers, abandoned their residents and created a war zone full of criminals."
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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Not all Dupage Women are single issue voters, but we have far too many that are. Just take a look at the Radical Females on the Dupage County Board. Hopefully some of them will be ousted in November, but we also have to have honest elections, and that is not a guarantee.
Mr Mayor, you are are racist and a white supremacist, signed JB Pritzger
When you have nothing to run on, you engage in name calling.
Pekau is right. He needs to hammer on the safety issue all day long. Unfortunately he won’t beat Casten for the simple reason that DuPage women are single issue voters committed to abortion. They’ll be at the polls to vote in large numbers.