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Next month Jackson will turn 58 and mark his first year representing Illinois’s first congressional district in the House of Representatives. He describes serving in Congress as a “tremendous honour” that often yields “awe and wonderment”. But some days, he chuckles, “it feels like a bad high school that you’ve transferred into” and on others “you feel like you’re walking a tightrope over a pool of sharks without a safety net”.
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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What’s his thoughts on Kim Foxx’s approach to criminal justice and the roll that Rainbow Push played in bringing her to power?
A lot of reasonable people– white and black– who know him personally think he is a pretty good guy at heart. Tough being a son of the “Rev”, but he handles it well. He knows Bobby Rush didn’t do a darn thing for the district so he hopes to be a little different. When you are a member of that House Dem caucus you have to vote on a lot of hard leftie garbage, which he does. But he is also supposed to be a guy you can talk to rationally. Too bad he didn’t get together a mayoral campaign… Read more »
Old, Surely you jest. Hard being the Rev’s son Really . Was it difficult to take all the prime beer routes downtown. After Daddy Extorted Anheuser-Busch. Probably making Lil Johnny a Millionaire. How exactly did that help the Black Community? It didn’t.