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While Sandoval held significant power over transit agencies as the chairman of the Illinois Senate’s Transportation Committee, his daughter and daughter-in-law were hired by the CTA — after his son was hired by another transit agency, the Pace bus system.
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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When will this district stop voting Democrat? NEVER!!!
People vote their tribe. Sandoval is the poster-boy for the clannishness of most of the world’s peoples. Around the world, it’s considered NORMAL to hire members of your family over far-better-qualified people, both in private and public organizations. This is part of why the West became wealthier than the rest of the world. People are NOT the same the world over. We are genetically distinct from those whose ancestors spent most of the last 1500 years living under very different conditions. The people of Western Europe evolved social behaviors that collectively constitute “commonwealth orientation,” where nepotism and clannishness are inexcusable.… Read more »