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In addition to calling the Democratic governors before Congress, the committee is requesting "All documents and communications among or between any official, employee, contractor, or agent of the State of [Illinois, Minnesota, New York] and any official, employee, contractor, or agent of the federal government related to the State of [Illinois, Minnesota, New York] sanctuary status."
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 thought the 3 Stooges reruns were on ME TV
The arrogant sanctimonious bloviating from Pritzker will sink IL further.
Get ready for a ton of blustering, blubbering, bloviating and backpedaling.
Curly-Moe-Shemp?
we have an illegal held in jail that raped a 76 year old woman on the bike path here in illinois. many postings about rapes in local parks last summer. no word from our mayor. this is not chicago.
Pritzker for President 2028 Campaign dream. National attention and fawning Pravda MSM praise to the most progressive, tyrannical, America hating governor in the country. Please, please please become the Democrat’s nominee JB. Spend your daddy’s entire fortune on the campaign. All of it. Down to the last cent. Doitdoitdoitdoit!! At least finally he’ll be penniless and gone from politics because without daddy’s money JB is simply an obesity statistic.
Send in the insufferable, wrongheaded clowns.
100 Says they don’t have the guts to show, hopefully those states get ZERO federal money.
So Don Rickles twin will be there. Hockey Puck.
Whatever. Who cares, these blowhards will say anything to be on TV, so look for them to rehearse their act and make provocative statements that get them on the national talk show circuit. Nothing happens to people who testify in front of congress…it s just a circus.