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Illinois Attorney General Kwame Raoul said Tuesday he is not interested in running for any elected position in the foreseeable future. “And this is no knock on Sen. Durbin or Sen. (Tammy) Duckworth. I truly believe what I do on a day-to-day basis (as attorney general) has more impact than what I could do as U.S. senator.”
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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Kwame’s having way too much fun with the ‘work of his life’ misappropriating taxpayer dollars on frivolous suits fighting common sense.
First of all, Kwamo would be outsmarted and eaten alive within weeks of his arrival in DC. And why make the switch when you are ruining IL with impunity anyway?
This tool does nothing that impact anyone that I know…except taking my money. I’m not in the demographic that he concentrates on…and it wouldn’t be difficult to feel more productive than The DICK and The DUCK…they literally do nothing.