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"Democratic U.S. Sen. Tammy Duckworth and her Republican challenger Kathy Salvi couldn’t be further apart on gun control, abortion rights, inflation, or just about any other key issue facing residents in Illinois and beyond...Without any knockout moments in the forum, Salvi continues to face an uphill battle in her bid to unseat Duckworth, who was shortlisted as a potential running mate for Biden in 2020."
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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Go Salvi! Go out and vote this person into office!
I thank Tammy Duckworth for her military service. It’s all downhill after that. She has a deficiency in the brain department, and it is a serious one. It’s almost as if she never advanced beyond the thought process of a 12 year old. She has the depth of a street puddle on a hot August day, though if pushed, I’d have to give the nod to the puddle.
Duckworthless has no record to run on, unless failure is considered a record.
I respectfully disagree. She is a reliable solidly D vote for every Progressive Democrat issue. She supports everything that every other Democrat supports. She’s not some rogue or maverick like the WV or AZ senators. As a junior senator, she votes exactly how she is told to vote, and that’s exactly what Democrat voters want. That’s what most D voters want. They want a Democrat who votes like every other Democrat and keeps that 51 vote (including Kamala) majority in the senate. She votes exactly how her constituents want. She doesn’t vote her conscience, or rock the boat, she votes… Read more »
We bash news media. But the WTTW/ WBEZ/ ST debates have been very well done.