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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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JB doesn’t yet realize he represents a failed, old, stale wing of the democratic party that is a imploding everywhere. He has little chance of a future here and zero chance nationally. His family can try to buy him another term but whoever is holding the purse strings probably recognizes a bad investment. I think they’ll put him out to pasture.
I saw JB the Hutt on March 15 in Grant Park. He’s not running anywhere physically.
Seriously though…
His candidacy should be relatively straightforward to pick apart for a solid Republican. JD Vance would have a field day.
First, he is not really running for President. No chance. But VP would be a possibility.
He is in a quandary. To keep his name afloat he must run in 2026. Yes, he will win in this very Deep Blue State. However, he is going to run into a budget crisis that he can not run away from and that will not play well in 2028.
I wouldn’t be so sure about winning IL. The levels of hate for him and his tyrannical, leftist, bolshevik style politics is extremely high and pervasive. Hate for him and everything he stands for is greater than the motivation to support him. Yes all the union mopes and goons will come out for him but other than crazy colored hair leftists and the LBGTQ mafia what’s he got? The kids are vibe shifting hard right, they see their futures were sold out. The standard democrat millennial seems to be disgusted by Israeli warfare and will not vote for him if… Read more »
The guy twice got more votes – upwards of 800,000 more votes – than any other candidate for governor in this history of Illinois. Maybe downstate they hate the guy but few in Cook County seem to give the guy even a second thought when they fill out their straight ticket Democrat ballot for the harvester.
He’s running although not officially yet. His near daily cultural pronouncements against the Trump administration are for a national audience. He’s not gaining much traction in the national polls, none at all actually, which is why he keeps upping the vitriolic rhetoric on X hoping that something goes viral. Last week he linked to a Daily Kos article about Texas abortion law with a picture of the handmaidens. Fundamentally, he’s got the same problem that Blago had as he said in the famous FBI tapes “…The whole world is passing me by, and I’m stuck in the job of governor….”… Read more »
Running is not what comes to mind.
Vote him out! He has ruined the state with high taxes and far left liberal policies. He does not represent working IL taxpayers. He is for identity policies.
Pritzker has created considerable bad baggage in his Illinois tenure. Young girls have been killed by his cherished illegal immigrants and who can forget the forcing of girls to undress in front of males claiming to be females in school locker rooms? There is so much more way too numerous to mention that would follow Pritzker should he decide on a national run. Pritzker shot his wad here in Illinois and while he may have the money to do a lot of things my feeling is the disgust he has caused would preclude a presidential win. Too bad JB but… Read more »
He’ll be back to make life miserable for IL residents whether Tiny Dancer runs for president or not. The Dems will string him and his deep pockets along ( again ) before dumping him. His fellow Marxists and the social services crowd will then appoint him commissar of Springrad for another torturous four years.