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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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Leave to Rich Miller to defend a race baiting clown like SDG — those 2 shit-stains deserve each other
Rich Miller, Illinois Democrat’s PR spokesman. I wonder what is the dollar value of his monthly retainer with Pritzker. What is the going rate for spewing continuous lies and fables?
Maybe her son is sick of being accused of “acting White”?
To Rich Miller, it was just a messaging error by Stacy: He says, “If Davis Gates had simply defended her family’s decision by saying something like her son really had his heart set on going to that school, then I don’t think anyone could really disagree with her choice.”
That’s a good take, Rich does see this merely as a messaging error. And by ‘message’ he means ‘make up some lie to make the situation seem more palatable.”
The fact that he’s even addressing this controversy, which I’m sure he likely called a ‘nothing burger’ or a ‘fake right-wing controversy’ at first, clearly shows that he’s taking his marching orders from elsewhere, and if the Democrat party has it’s razor sharp fangs out for the CTU prez, he’s obliged to comply.
If miller is the unofficial voice of the ‘gaurentees for me at the expense of thee’ public sec class, I’m kinda surprised he was as critical as he was.