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"But while Mr. Pritzker declined to provide a yea or nay on whether he would run, he added that a last-minute swap of an understudy for Mr. Biden was 'such an odd hypothetical if you ask me.'"
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 was a hoot to read NYT editor Blow’s dog-whistle essay: “racist Chicago republicans defeat lesbian black mayor”. Now NYT bloviates on Pritzker as presidential material.
Clearly, NYT is no longer “newspaper of record”. no better than National Inquirer.
Two words that would strike fear into anyone’s heart if they understood the severity of those two words.
“President Pritzger”
Are there any healthy Democrats? Biden, Durbin, Pelosi, Schumer, Sanders, Fauxcahontas, etc are senile fossils, the fat man is morbidly obese, Fetterman is too depressed to have another stroke…
LOL, the legacy New York Times has fewer readers than Tucker Carlson has viewers.
If you haven’t figured it out by now, there’s a pattern emerging. Lightfoot looses, and Wirepoints posts an article with strong leave Illinois undertones to stomp out any celebratory momentum. Most folks, including myself, are confident that Pritzker’s gun ban will not survive. Instead of putting recent rulings at the top of the page, we get a laughable NYT article about presidential aspirations. The lefty clown that “gets stuff done” is now getting undone, and there’s nothing Wirepoints can do to save him or his minions. I love it!
SOS? Is that shorthand for Same Old S$&#?
Exactly what you’d expect from the New York Times.
Lots of progressive-n-woke puffery, and not a word about the fact that Illinois’ finances, taxes and overabundance of public employee union-controlled guvmn’t are a pestilential mess.
The NYT is doing its job as Democrat Cheerleader, trying to reassure nervous Democrats that there’s a great candidate in the fat man. He’s ready to jump in and save the day in case senile Joe won’t run. We know the disaster Harris is off the table, Buttgleig is useless and incompetent, Newsom is a literal train wreck, who else is left?
The next “Obama”.
Someone most people have never ever really heard of, that checks some sort of ‘First ever …..’ box.
First ever non-binary, disabled, POC son/daughter/they of immigrant yak farmers candidate for President. Something of that sort.
Someone who everyone understands you really shouldn’t oppose because that would make look like a racist, or a homophobe, or a mysogynist, or whatever.
That’s who’s left, I think.
That the fat man is even being considered as a long shot proves what a screw up Newsom is
Totally crazy. Illinois and Chicago are a total political mess. The US population will not allow it. Chicago politicians love it to possibly link to presidential power again.
Interesting that NYT did not allow comments for that article.
The fat man truly is the bottom of the barrel.
While we allow name calling and fat jokes here in moderation, I can tell you that is not effective, adds nothing and I don’t like it.
They call us the absolute worst and vile names in public discourse: Antisemitic Tiki-Torch Carrying White Supremacist Nacsees Racists Fascists. (misspelled intentionally to avoid filter) They call us these things on a daily basis. Just the other day, JB Pritzker called us “demagogues who are pushing censorship” as part of a greater “virulent strain of [white] nationalism plaguing our nation.” In the past, he’s called Trump and his voters bigots. He calls anyone who opposes abortion a misogynist. He labels anyone who disagrees with his cousin’s gender-bending lifestyle as a transphobic. He called out DeSantis for merely giving a speech… Read more »
That’s a long response that can be translated into, “but but but sniffle sniffle sniffle, they called me names first Mark”. Boo hoo.
What did you say, white supremacist fascist racist pensioner? You think white pensioners should take priority over poor black people footing bill? Is that that you really believe, racist scum?
It’s bad enough this egomaniac has destroyed Illinois but now he wants to infect the entire country with his special brand of hypocritical wokeness. Liberal elite is too kind a term for this power hungry social engineer. History is full of similar psychopaths convinced of their superiority, and hellbent on showing the world their greatness. I remember seeing articles about him and his dysfunctional family, repeatedly suing each other over the family fortune back in the 80’s and 90’s. At this point we just have to hope he eats himself into oblivion.
Translation: He runs if Biden does not. If Biden does, and they push Kamala out as is likely, he wants the spot.
The fat man will not allow an African American woman to run for president