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Jesse Jackson Jr.—convicted, unpardoned, and unrepentant—is running for Congress again.
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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This is a great, witty thread!
In a majority of the black voters mindset, vote race because they’ll take care of us. In reality they don’t. But they just keep voting them in ,and keep getting hosed
Charles Barkley said over 10 years ago “Black people have been voting for Democrats their whole life, and they’re still poor”
Here’s a guy that’s been collecting a six figure, taxpayer funded, financial benefit package, because he is “disabled” and dealing with a bi-polar issue. Will he miraculously be cured when he succeeds in winning his seat back ? If he can’t work now because of his medical condition, how can he properly function afterwards ?
Put back in office with a landslide win. This guy is a hero in his community representing the morals the community adores.
He should win this election now that this fool has Street Cred’s.
He is the perfect candidate for Illinois. He’ll get elected effortlessly. That’s how absolutely brain dead and useless an Illinois voter is. Most of you continue to look to the voter for change. You need to understand that the average Illinois voter does not have the mental capacity to understand how they are being screwed. All they are capable of understanding is what time the bear game is on and whether they get Busch Light or Old Style for the game.
Rather, so many in IL are on the taxpayer dole, from public unions to welfare queens to illegal aliens, that they vote for anyone who supports the dole.
Average Cook County voter to be more correct. In all statewide or national elections the democrats carry about 10 of the 102 counties but Cook rules the roost with the 80% democrat choices by the voters. Meanwhile the rubes and hayseeds of the remainder of the state are looked upon with disdain by the dem overlords.
What IS it with public office for these people? After a bit of reflection, I think it’s a shot at a lifestyle that can’t be replicated in the private sector. And the retirement and health benefits provided after a public career carry over for the rest of their lives as well as their spouses’. I once knew a lawyer (now deceased) who ran for a U.S. house seat in the mid 1940’s. He was elected to the U.S. House and then the U.S. Senate, where he served for several terms. After a defeat, he went to work for a Washington… Read more »
Great, insightful comment, especially the first paragraph. We see this in various forms beyond just elected officials with those in the federal, state and local budget ecosystems. The education racket for example, mercenary administrators bouncing from district to district. Those in “public service” who collect multiple public pensions. Campaign finance laws draw in people too, access to free money that can be used broadly and retained once out of office. In attempt to answer the question of where do we start, of course term limits and campaign finance laws must be in the discussion and solution, yet it’d take politicians… Read more »
Looks like he is trying to pull a Trump.
BJ, Better than a Biden.
Did Dems really think that Pudding Brained simpleton was actually fit for a 2nd term?!!
OwO!!
the rotten fruit doesn’t fall far from the tree, nothing like keeping the family business going.
And in another article, Emil Jones, another nepo baby to Emil Jones Sr., cuts a deferred prosecution agreement to remain in office. Does the story ever change?