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"Texas school-district officials are charged with unlawfully using public funds for electioneering.... Unfortunately, these alleged abuses aren’t unique to Texas. The Chicago Teachers Union was caught last month “partnering” with Bring Chicago Home—an advocacy group campaigning for Mayor Brandon Johnson’s failed $100 million tax-hike initiative. The group had encouraged teachers to take students out of class and “march to an early voting site” in support of the initiative. The nonprofit Illinois Policy Institute filed an ethics complaint with the school district, but Chicago officials haven’t taken meaningful action against the union."
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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