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Attorneys general Keith Ellison of Minnesota; Letitia James of New York; Peter Neronha of Rhode Island; and Nick Brown of Washington State also attended Thursday’s meeting. Brown labeled the current environment a “constitutional crisis.”
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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Who is paying for this partisan nonsense?
Funding to Kwame’s office needs to be halved. If there is money for partisan political circle jerks like this, there too much money available to these hacks.
He’s hosting ? Doesn’t do anything but pile on. What’s this costing the state ?
Vote him out. IL needs someone working for all the people of IL, not just the Trump haters.
Interesting Kwames Town Hall isn’t on YouTube or openly posted elsewhere? Maybe on X or FB? G. Bishop/Center Square has some chips from his excellent daily show at about min 21:25 (https://www.youtube.com/live/GVqCcgN3C2Q?si=TAA6IMu5abwk1x8-)…some VERY inflammatory stuff!!!…..Why do you host a big “Town Hall” and then not make openly available to all??? Is it just me? or are a lot of left news, conferences, studies, etc increasingly accessible only if you log-in to site where they’re posted?
Man that group looks really interested in being there, and it’s about time Government support ends to these mentioned programs enough is enough