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“These lawmakers are welcome in the state of Illinois,” Pritzker said. “So are Texas Rangers. They can go visit the lakefront in Chicago, they can come to the state fair, but they’re not arresting and taking anybody away from Illinois.”
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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The caller ended the threat with, “This is MAGA country”
Ha! Juicy Smollet engaging in another hoax? That makes sense since he is otherwise unemployable. And his last hoax worked so successfully. Need a hoax? Call Juicy!
Bomb threat…sure, sure. Simple Theatre. Not enough sympathy or continued notoriety in media yet, Need to turn up the conflict and race meter. As always, need to make the Dems the victims in the media. Ridiculous – these are grown ass people…do your job – schmucks.
Send the damn truants back to Texas; problem solved-cheaply.
Political theater with other people’s money. Zero stars.
This story doesn’t pass the smell test. Another round of leftist gaslighting courtesy of JB the Hutt.
Another Kinzinger-esqe false flag? If you remember, no one was ever charged and the details of that life changing event for him were never made public and quickly forgotten. Nothing is beneath the Dems.
He’s using ILLINOIS TAXPAYERS MONEY to protect these POS !! Let THE TEXANS hire their own Security!!