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Pritzker will speak in a prime time address Tuesday night, the same night former President Barack Obama will address the convention, according to two sources familiar with the plans. Johnson, Sen. Dick Durbin, Sen. Tammy Duckworth and U.S. Rep. Lauren Underwood have also been confirmed as speakers.
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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I can’t believe Johnson is going to speak. Makes me giggle a lil.
The real-time fact checkers will be real busy with these two. I fully expect bloviating and whoppers from Pritzker. In fact I’m expecting at least 5-10 whoppers from JB.
2 of the most the most repulsive individuals in Illinois politics. No further proof is needed about the failure of Illinois schools than the election of these 2.
Another pricy grooming bill coming up for the mayor. Supports of the mayor, a substantial contribution to his campaign fund is in order.
I sure hope Wirepoints presents a good take on these two’s speeches here because I don’t plan on watching them.
Count on it.
JB has been dreaming of and planning for this day ever since he decided that he was rich enough and entitled enough to run for President. His speech will be just like Obama’s 2004 DNC speech and will put JB on the national map.He has been practicing and polishing this speech since 2018. His dream must seem so close that he can hardly fail to grasp it. He doesn’t know that it is already behind him, somewhere back in that vast ruin of ‘progressive’ destruction in the city and where the dark fields of a impoverished Illinois roll on under… Read more »
Well said.
Seeing that picture of those two bums reminds me of the characters of “ twiddle-Dee and Twiddle-dum. Jay Robert is of course Dee, smiling like the cat that ate the canary, that leaves you know who as Dum.
Will the governor mention that Illinois is the abortion capitol of the Midwest under the pretext of women’s health? Will he mention that he and his family are instrumental in gender affirming care? Will he mention on how the budget is balanced in Illinois? Will he mention anything about all the taxes he increased both new and old? Will he mention on how Illinois is a great place to live with the extremely low crime rates especially in Chicago. Will he mention on how to save money on property taxes by ripping out his toilets and replacing them with portable… Read more »
Freddy I can sum it up much easier in a few words they will both lie.
He will mention IL being the “abortion capital of the Midwest” (though maybe not in those exact words) and his family’s role in promoting “gender affirming care” because Democrats consider those good things. Everything else on the list…. probably not.