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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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The fix was in early when the Democrats put their guy Bob Fioretti on the Republican ballot.
An article on Thursday stated that 66,000 mail in ballots arrived on Wednesday one day after the election. Anybody out there who doesn’t believe the fix is in for the States Attorney is clearly of diminished mental capacities. 66K on the day after the election, what a f’ing joke!
Especially when 65,000 votes will go to the Preckwinkle backed candidate.
I’m sure the city clerk is carefully reviewing every postmark on those ballots to make sure it was stamped on or before election day, right?
Are mail in ballots audited? They seem to know how many have not been returned. Will we get a final tally on mail in. For example 500,000 mailed out and 510,000 returned. Or will they stop counting at some point name Harris the winner and say based on what’s outstanding Burke can’t win?
Harris will win, Preckwinckle and the machine cannot afford a defeat. The ballot manufacturing room is busy churning out the needed votes to insure a win. Question, will Burke scream or protest the fixed election? Will she be rewarded by Pritzger will a cushy state job or by the County?