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Governor Pritzker has emerged as one of the loudest Democratic voices sounding the alarm about what he sees as the authoritarian tendencies of the Trump administration. And increasingly, he’s put his own personal story at the center of his argument.
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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What a puff piece. Wow, with the current condition Illinois is in, didn’t the CSM think to perhaps ask a question or two about Pension reform, term limits, corruption reforms, etc. Just another puff piece for the simple minded and elderly to read.
In name only. Socialists live for the disruption they cause. And they are usually the ones that benefit from it.
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Please. He’s Jewish now because it’s the flavor of the month. When the time is needed he will bring his transgendered sister to the forefront