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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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It didn’t protect workers inasmuch as the corporations, er, unions, representing them. That was obvious from the get-go.
What’s funny is the timing. 2014-16 would’ve been a great time to get the amendment on the ballot. By rushing it through with the Democrats holding a super-majority, it implied the Democrats were either going to implement right-to-work or irrevocably mess up the state so much that the Republicans would take control and convince the majority of the populace to go right-to-work. Or the students students taught today by union teachers in union schools and universities would become future anti-union legislators.
Whatever is the worst possible decision it will be made by Illinois. Always the worse and always will be the worst. That is what government Lackies do best is the “Worst”. Once you paid you have been laid.
The voters had the ultimate decision on Amendment 1. The voters of Illinois wanted this.
Did they? It seems to me like county clerks kept counting until they got 50.1% of the vote. It took weeks. The unions were so sure of it’s passage that they announced “IT PASSED!” days before the people in charge of the elections even certified the vote.
The entire thing is so fishy.
You’re delusional. They were above 50.1% the entire time they were counting ballots. You do realize that they needed to count the total ballots cast before they could complete the tally?
Waaaaaahhhhhh, they stole an election. It’s so tiring.
Even Capitol Fax wasn’t sure if the amendment was going to pass until it passed. But the unions knew…
The unions knew based on math. They knew how many yes votes they had vs how many outstanding ballots that were sent out but had yet to be collected. They knew that almost all of those outstanding ballots would have to be returned (which they weren’t) and they would need to be blank or “No” for it to not pass. It was a fairly easy call once you looked at the math. They didn’t need more yes votes for it to pass. You know that but your purposely are acting ignorant on this subject so you can pretend that an… Read more »
Please point to a time after Election Day where it didn’t have enough votes. You can’t because it was above the 50% mark the entire time.
https://www.illinoispolicy.org/why-amendment-1-is-too-close-to-call/ Amendment 1 to the Illinois Constitution remains too close to call. The government union-backed amendment can pass in one of two ways. Either at least 60% of Illinoisans vote “yes” on the ballot question, or more than 50% of all voters in the election approve it. The New York Times reported 58% of Illinoisans voted in favor of the constitutional amendment based on data from over 95% of counties Nov. 11. That number alone would mean the amendment would fail unless the uncounted ballots give it 60% of the vote on the question, but there is another way it… Read more »
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/did-amendment-1-pass-heres-what-the-measure-needs-to-pass-and-where-things-stand/ar-AA13V2wW Did Amendment 1 Pass? Here’s What the Measure Needs to Pass and Where Things Stand Voters eagerly woke up Wednesday morning wondering if the very first question on their ballot, an amendment to the state’s constitution known as Amendment 1, or the Workers’ Rights Amendment, had passed. The results of the proposed amendment remained undetermined late Tuesday evening. The proposed amendment would essentially codify in the Illinois Constitution the right for employees to organize and bargain collectively over topics like “negotiating wages, hours, and working conditions, and to protect their economic welfare and safety at work.” A “yes” vote… Read more »
It passed because it was misrepresented in the ad campaign.
The public was duped into believing it would benefit workers, not further empower already too powerful unions.
Misled chickens.