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Mayor Brandon Johnson’s campaign is taking heat for accepting $1,500 from a city lobbyist less than a year after a high-profile City Council battle to strengthen a ban on such donations. The potential infraction would be the latest instance of the Johnson campaign accepting money from people or entities barred from contributing to Chicago’s mayor and has raised questions over his camp's struggles to comply with campaign finance laws as he gears up for a likely re-election bid.
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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still wet behind the ears
Seriously, can this clown get any dumber.
Dan Rostenkowski( D-IL ) got busted and had his career ended over postage stamps. Postage stamps. So.. the bar for idiotic behavior is set pretty high in IL.