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Calling it “perhaps the most important time to be a state attorney general,” Kwame Raoul said Monday that he is confronting the Trump administration on several issues critical to Illinois residents.
“We perceive the urgency of this moment,” Raoul said in explaining his actions taken in concert with other attorneys general against what they regard as overreaching federal initiatives. “When the actions of the federal government threaten the people of the state of Illinois and the rule of law in general, it is my duty to work with those attorneys general who are like-minded and stand against those threats.”
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 correct way to look at the issue is that President Trump is protecting America from radicals like Kwame
Making the State of Illinois a safe place for anyi-Americans to conduct their bad activities
Meanwhile, countless crooks on the state govt payroll go unprosecuted. Glad to see Kwame’s looking out for IL’s best interests.
Like he said in his commercials, this is his life’s work, and he just getting started.