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“He’s got a big decision to make,” said Political Reporter Mary Ann. “Does he run for that third term and also run for president while you’re the governor, or do you say, ‘OK that wouldn’t really be fair to be the governor and be really focused [somewhere else]?”
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 think he’s way too far left to get enough electoral votes to become President. I hope this isn’t another one of my “famous last words” proclamations.
Hopefully NO
“Does he run for that third term and also run for president while you’re the governor, or do you say, ‘OK that wouldn’t really be fair to be the governor and be really focused [somewhere else]?” Duh. JB doesn’t give a fig about the state. He will run for governor again, use his daddy’s billions to purchase the reelection then use the states billions to help support the Prtizker for President 2028 Campaign.
Wow. NBC 5 Political Reporter Mary Ann Ahern reports that water is wet and that Pritzker covets the Presidency.
If the democrat are dumb enough, okay they are, to put Pritzger up as their candidate for president there are a bunch, millions, of “D” voters who could care less about the incompetence of this blob and would vote for him because he has the “D” after his name. Remember that voters who vote for democrats are really, really dumb.
God help our country if this man is president. He is the worst gov Illinois has ever had. Between him and the lousy Chicago mayor, we Illinoians are screwed.
It is immaterial how much Pritzker inherited, or that fact he started life on 3rd base and thinks he hit a triple, he still has been governor of one of the worst states in the US by any objective measurement. He could have inherited double the $3.7 billion, you just can’t make a silk purse out of a Pritzker ear! Harris campaign spent a billion dollars and still lost. I hope he is able to buy his way to win the Bolshevik primary!
I have known Pritzker on a professional level for the last 15 years and he is just as arrogant as Trump is, except he has no self awareness of the fact. He believes that he earned everything and has stated that he would be in the same position today had he been born in poverty and has stated that fact in front of me. I work at one of the clubs he belongs to. Arrogance to the “nth degree” is the best way to describe him.
Can’t wait to see toilets on the White House lawn or all the disappointed tears of the children when the hunt is cancelled because all of the eggs were eaten by JB!
Ok, Mary Ann. Let’s look not at the aspirations of JB the Hutt. Let’s look at the results. Illinois is a financial wasteland with businesses fleeing the state on a daily basis. The overspend has painted Illinois into a corner, even when the pension benefit obligations are left out. Factor that in and Illinois is DOA. A Hutt presidential campaign would elect JD Vance as the next President. The only people the Hutt cares about are the ones he can buy votes from. That would be the ones on the government’s payroll. The only media outlets the Hutt graces are… Read more »
No one should vote for him. Look how he’s ruining IL
You got that right 👍
Fair? Conscientious? Pritzger? Thanks for the laugh.
I would never use the word RUN.