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“It’s probably six weeks ago when I got up early one morning and Cindy [his wife] came in the office at five before I left for work, and I just told her, I said, ‘Cindy, I got this burning in my heart. I just can’t walk away from it.’ I’m one of those people that I don’t want to leave any stone unturned. And I live with no regrets. So, as the days after that began to unfold, just more and more people began to step up and just encourage us to get involved. So I began to look and explore what the field looked like. And, I just felt like this time things were different.”
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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Surely the Illinois GOP primary voter will choose differently. The base seems smart enough to know that Bailey isn’t popular with the overall electorate and can’t win a general election. lol
Is this the best Illinois Republicans do? He will again be anti abortion. He should say the issue shoulf be decided by Ilinois voters and support the results. But he won’t.
Bailey got smoked by Pritzker last election after beating out, among others, his current running mate in that primary. Del Mar had accused the Bailey campaign of trying to smear him and his business with rumors of strippers be part of. An odd pairing. Pritzker’s choice for rope a dope again?
Strategically clever if Bailey accepts Pritzker donations and spends the money on Dabrowski yard signs.
For the good of IL, take a couple of Tums and let Ted run for the gubernatorial nomination unopposed, Darrin. Don’t be Pritzgers tool to use against a candidate he is afraid of again.
I am interested in how Bailey will sell himself to voters, as a better candidate than Dabrowski.