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“I think it’s probably good politics for any Democratic office holder who has national ambitions to try and establish themselves as a foil of Ron DeSantis,” Democratic strategist Fernand Amandi said.
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’s almost as if Jabba the Hutt and Kermit the frog were about to do battle…
Does anyone see Miss Piggy playing the part of Hellary Clinton?
Considering both are admired by George Soros there’s no real difference. DeSantis is as much a Davos devotee as fat boy is. Different sides of the same Jesuit coin.
I’m not sure about Soros public approval of DeSantis. I’m more concerned about DeSantis’ military background and his stance on vaccines. His claim of a win with Disney was the last deep dive thing I went into, and it was a complete loss for Florida taxpayers. Of course, the media framed it differently.
Everyone was for vaccines until they were against them. While i’m sure there’s a handful of people who were against mRNA vaccines from the get-go, I personally don’t know any. DeSantis didn’t distribute them ‘equitably’ like our governor did which I thought was good. As for the Disney thing, the taxpayer is just fine, I think they just passed a law or something holding Disney and not the county responsible for the payment of the bonds. He was a war hawk and anti-putin when he was he was in house, but he seems to have changed his mind with the… Read more »
Pritzker’s solution is the same that has been tried for years meeting disaster in Illinois namely throw more money at the system. That method is generally backed by the educators because with the new monies they get a a chunk of it as higher wages. One would think the public would finally figure out that throwing money carte blanch towards the system hasn’t worked in the past but this is Illinois…home of the unknowing public
How completely comical – these Democrat ‘strategists’ have no understanding of how failed Chicago and Illinois are. If they did, they would tell Pritzker to shut up. I suspect the Democrat strategists real motivation is to grift off of Pritzker.
Not failures, but rather, progressive utopias working to exterminate the deplorables still living there.
That would be hilarious the Pritzker fortune devoured by theDNC.
I think that the Democratic-n-progressive-n-woke “strategists” understand that they can rely on the similarly Democratic-n-progressive-n-woke “journalists,” who dominate our lame-stream news, to keep Pritzker’s pestilentially burdensome taxpayer funded woke gravy train rolling by telling voters all is really well, and getting better.
It it were otherwise, Pritzker wouldn’t be responding to “carnival barker” criticisms of Illinois’ public safety and education and taxes-n-finances problems by bragging about how many men masquerading as women can read books to kids in our libraries, and how many abortions Illinois can encourage.