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Chicago shelters lately have been so full, incoming migrants were kept at a designated landing zone, with minimal access to food and sanitation and only parked Chicago Transit Authority buses for temporary heat. There had been about 140 migrants on those buses, Mayor Brandon Johnson said Friday, down from a high of more than 300. As to whether conditions at the landing zone were acceptable, Johnson said, “Look, that’s a good question, you know. It’s certainly not acceptable for the (Texas) governor to send people to the city of Chicago, but we’re meeting the moment.”
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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Flash for Mayor Root Causes … The root cause is open borders.
If you don’t like the way things are going, go to the root cause, Mr. Mayor; contact the Commander in Chief.
Who will be the first illegal to steal a warming bus?
You just know it’s going to happen.
The sanctuary states should get together and decide how to distribute their bounty of new illegal residents. Governor Blowhard should call Governor Gruesome Newsom and send a few planes loaded with illegals to California. Problem solved. Why can’t these nimrods come up with these solutions? Are they really trying?