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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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Dems protecting their own bet, your ass if a republican said what pritzger said every news media, political analyst and politician would call for resignation, but not here very quiet-crickets
Per Rep. Daniel Didech (D-Buffalo Grove):
Likening your political opponent to a man who committed genocide against Jews is ok. (I assume this, because Didech didn’t condemn Pritzker.)
Saying that you are on the same side as Jews is not ok. Why? Didech clumsily tried to play a Victim Card, apparently.
“Rep. Jennifer Gong-Gershowitz (D-Glenview) also said Reick had no right to use pain of the Jewish community to score political points.” But it’s ok if Pritzker does??
Two pathetic political hypocrites!
Hierarchy, not hypocrisy.
Didech is terrible. Used to chime in on all the local lefty issues posted on Facebook. IDK if he still does as I deleted my account, but that’s all I can recall that he does for this area.
Pound sand Didech all your trying to do is deflect from the horror of what came out of Pritzker’s mouth, be a man and tell your fearless leader what he said was wrong you are just as bad.