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"This isn’t conspiracy theory or speculation; it’s a documented fact, exposed in a 2012 ProPublica article that laid bare how Obama’s early power base in Chicago wasn’t built on genuine grassroots support, but on the calculated lines of a rigged district.... John Corrigan, the Democrat who helped draw the map alongside Obama, revealed the scheme in an interview with the New Yorker back in 2008." That New Yorker article says, "The partisan redistricting of Illinois may have been the most important event in Obama’s early political life."
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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No duh? That an unknown undergrad and pal with the remnants of the Weather Underground became a senator and then president in an astonishingly fast manner?
So, he’s President ‘Gerry Mander’ then…?
If it wasn’t for crooked IL Democrat politics, Obama would be sharing a prison cell with Tony Rezko.
Those of us with our eyes open have known Obama was a ‘project’ for some time.
Note that this story is based on detailed stories from Pro Public and The New Yorker, which certainly are not conservative outlets. Those stories are very damming. The Pro Publica article is here https://www.propublica.org/article/obamas-gerrymander and The New Yorker article is here: https://archive.ph/erQIO.