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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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AlderClown Wants City Council To Consider Crooked Rigged, ‘Ranked Voting’ Elections –
History of Chicago’s non-partisan elections. Not to marginalize Rs, but to marginalize black candidates:
https://www.chicagomag.com/news/january-2019/why-chicago-has-a-nonpartisan-mayoral-election-runoff/
The way to get to more representation for non-Democrat voters is via multi-member districts.
https://democracysos.substack.com/p/portland-shows-the-way-representation
Ranked choice is fine (I have no idea why some on the right are so opposed), especially in primaries.
If the city wants to save money (and get more participation) then the elections should be moved away from odd numbered years.
This is what you get when the wackos outnumber the normies.
Anything proposed by an Alderman should be immediately suspect. I don’t mean to paint them with a broad brush. All of them are thieves; prove me wrong. How many Alderman have been finger printed and done time?
This is not democratic , it is divide and conquer.