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Ramirez-Rosa will step down from his positions as floor reader and chairman of the City Council’s Zoning Committee following last week’s contentious special council meeting at which, his colleagues say, he tried to physically stop a fellow alderperson from joining a meeting regarding Chicago’s sanctuary city status. Denying the meeting a quorum would end the effort to reverse sanctuary city laws, a proposal Ramirez-Rosa and other progressive alderpeople were against.
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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Ramirez-Rosa assaulted an alderperson; he should resign because he can’t comport himself in a civil manner.
Obstruction of an official proceeding, civil disorder, disorderly conduct. Just to name a few potential felony charges that have been freely tossed around by our DOJ recently.