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Chicago Police Department Superintendent Larry Snelling estimated about 15,000 people were in attendance at the protest and approximately 500 police officers.
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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These people have nothing better to do with their time on Father’s Day than be in a protest downtown? It clearly shows the state of the family in these liberal cities and states. The rest of the country lived with Biden for 4 years and DJT has been president for 6 months. These people with TDS better buckle up and hold their stuffed animals tight as the country gets back on track.
Difficult to understand how this many people got so stupid.
In a stunning show of support for legal immigration, more than 2 millions Chicago residents stayed at home.
On a normal day in the downtown there are more arrests.