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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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I watched the entire video. The crazy left wing nutjobs have no fear of negative consequences that’s why they act this way. There’s no will in the community to ostracize these people or make it socially unacceptable to engage in this type of behavior. In fact, it’s encouraged in many circles as community activism or protests against unjust. Society either has to collectively lose interest in this stuff, and these people will go away, or else we’re just going to have to accept that the future of most local politics will be with these crazy people in charge.
We can’t have civil conversations anymore.
Awake Illinois has been labeled toxic by liberal media. Anyone that agrees to meet with them is going to be shouted down and labeled racist. They can’t even rent a private space without a bunch of fascists jumping on the landlord. It’s stupid behavior that moves these types of conversations underground.
Bullies.
Opportunity presents itself and Ron proves he’s just a coward. Always a surfeit of spaghetti spines in this state.
“Carolyn Pinta, director of Buffalo Grove Pride, called Awake Illinois anti-trans and homophobic…
“Des Plaines does a great job of being a welcoming place,” she said before the cancellation, “and it’s awful to see this group coming to do an event there.”
Ah, step right up folks, here we see the left’s celebration of “diversity” on full display…!!!
As a gay guy, I’m disgusted by the intolerant shenanigans of the leftist LGBTQ “community” – isn’t their motto supposed to be “Love is love”…???
Buffalo Grove Pride has the support of all these corporate donors: Silver Sponsors Annette Leibovitz • Balloons by Tommy • Compass Health Center • Elevated Entertainment • PFLAG • Wintrust • Zoro.com Bronze Sponsors AJG Analytics • Belmont Village • BGRA • BMO Harris • Buffalo Grove Animal Hospital • Kingswood United Methodist Church • Congregational United Church of Christ, Arlington Heights • The Gerber Group at Engel & Volkers Chicago North Shore • Mundelein LGBT Alliance • PFLAG Northern Illinois • School of Rock Arlington Heights • Our Saviour’s Lutheran Church of Arlington Heights • Stericycle • Veterinary Specialty Center Friends of BG Pride Am Shalom • Bill’s Pizza • BJBE • Temple Chai • Congregation Beth Am • CDW BRAVE • Condell… Read more »
We as conservatives need to write emails to everyone of these non-woke organizations DEMANDING they renounce the behavior of Buffalo Grove Pride immediately:
Wintrust
BMO Harris
Buffalo Grove Animal Hospital
Bill’s Pizza
Larry Steinway, Senior VP Mortgage Lending
And so on
IF ANYONE IS ON TWITTER, PLEASE IMMEDIATELY TAG THESE CORPORATIONS ASKING THEM TO IMMEDIATELY DENOUNCE THE ANTI-FREE SPEECH AND HATEFUL VIOLENT BEHAVIOR OF BUFFALO GROVE PRIDE
Wirepoints: It might be enough to simply create an article for sharing and distributing that shows all of these corporation donors support an organzation that encourages violence and hate, and now this kind of activism can tarnish their brand names.
Right Wintrust? investor_info@wintrust.com
Does Wintrust support violent behavior like sending bullets to the home of the owner of the venue? Should we boycott Wintrust for their political activism?
How about you BMO: investor.relations@bmo.com
Does BMO support groups like BUffalo pRiide encouraging violent behavior like sending bullets to the home of the owner of the venue?
WE NEED TO KNOW
U.S. Media Relations Scott Doll: scott.doll@bmo.com
Buffalo Grove Animal Hospital:
847-394-1128
Sherwin Williams Long Grove
Corporate
Places of worship are corporations now? What do you think people are going to do with this information, send some strongly-worded emails? Or are you hoping your Proud Boy buddies will take it upon themselves to do something more? Freedom of speech? More like “only our speech.” Get real.
Sometimes, all it takes is one tweet tagging the corporation, or house of worship, showing their evil ways, and they change course.
There are a lot of rumblings out of Des Plaines lately that tell you the direction the City is going. Increasing crime (carjackings and a murder on the south side along Touhy), city leaders very excited to welcome illegal aliens, now the mayor saying he doesn’t support booking an event to discuss the harmful affects of grooming our children. Even Cafe La Cave is pulling out. Leads me to think Des Plaines might be a place to avoid when considering investments.
The former mayor of Des Plaines, Matthew Bogusz, was a democrat hack, served until 2021, and he was replaced with an even worse leftist hack who loves to virtue signal all the leftist nonsense. Former Democrat mayor Bogusz said that even has had enough of DP and moved his family out of Des Plaines last year as soon as his term ended.
The progressives move to these suburbs, get politically involved, and ruin the place. These progressives are militant, well funded, angry and intolerant. They ruin everything. Society needs to push back against these people.
Just this past week there was a killing with a body left in the middle of Perry Street – just about a block or so from the Des Plaines police department.
Yes, Des Plaines is getting dragged into Chicago’s muck.
Time for a a boycott
I find it ironic that the Daily Herald itself does not disavow violence and threatening intimidation to stop freedom of speech, the very same freedom of speech that the Daily Herald enjoys to punish its rag newspaper.