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"Take his ratings among the city's Hispanics. Despite all the hundreds of millions he has thrown at illegal aliens in the city, he has a horrendous 26 percent approval among the very sector he has been pandering to with millions in freebies for migrants. Ah, but he has the approval of African American Chicagoans, right? Not even close. According to the poll, only 38 percent of blacks support him."
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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Like all the unaccomplished wannabe socialist Santa Clauses, Mayor Cliff Notes ran out of confiscated taxpayer funds to gift to the grifters.
BJ only cares about the job approval rating from his masters who purchased and control him: The parasitic terrorist scum of Chicago Teachers Union. CTU loves BJ and everyone else can go pound sand.
How can his approval possibly be that high? Sounds like a lot of people aren’t paying attention.
He should get one of those big foam fingers and hold it up at all his speaking engagements.
Johnson is a loser and a racist.
Chicago is a great city in spite of this Mayor. Hopefully a more astute and less divisive one will be elected to replace him. Even Rome eventually fell otherwise.
And Illinois will eventually fall to
A great city? The city has nothing good to offer to the ordinary citizens.
That was my comment to coming here; the Communist wants to burn the place down.
The dude and all his phony progressive shtick is really toast if and when he’s forced to raise property taxes AGAIN to cover all his upper-income pals at CTU from one $dime$ of cuts/layoffs all while his “tax the “billionaires” flimflam goes nowhere in Springfield.