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If this bill passes, say goodbye to local control over all Illinois parks and expect to see open drug and alcohol use, needles, no sanitation and fire hazards, but no ordinary park users.
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.
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Braindead wears slip ons because he’s too dumb to tie a knot. Stacey picked the perfect patsy to run for mayor
Not to worry, Mayor Johnson has everything under control. He’s investing in people whatever that means. Which people, nobody knows!
Johnson is bought and paid for by CTU.. housing was given to illegals while overlooking US citizens. How does anyone think that all the illegals were moved out of the shelters? Illegals went somewhere. Johnson won’t hire competent people, just DEI and political hires.
‘…some of the mayor’s most difficult issues as he’s transitioned from a firebrand union organizer to a chief executive…’ Like Illinois’ trust fund baby, JB the Hutt, Mayor Cliff Notes has never managed a hot dog stand, much less held a any real job of responsibility in his entire career. Alice Yin, dutiful member of the Useless Chicago Media, penned this halfhearted criticism of the results of Mayor Notes’ inexperience and incompetence that Chicago taxpayers have endured. True context would indicate the pattern of incompetent political animals getting elected to positions they are unprepared for who appoint fellow political animal… Read more »
Isn’t “trustworthy leaders for his progressive agenda” an oxymoron?
There are most likely good candidates out there who can never get past Brandon Johnson’s race hangup. That’s why the US Department of Justice opened up a civil rights investigation into his hiring practices.
Brandon won’t appoint competent leaders who’d show him up.