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“The moment is too big, the challenges are too great for any of these leaders to harbor personal grudges or have personal acrimony or have some of their tense feelings filter down to the staff level,” said John Shaw, the director of Southern Illinois University’s Paul Simon Public Policy Institute. “I mean, no one expects the governor and mayor to become lifelong friends or close political allies, but it’s imperative for the future of Illinois that they find ways to have a productive working relationship.”
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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Unless they find a food they both like for dinner together not happening.
Pritzker will eat anything.
Laurel and Hardy, DEI approved.
They deserve each other.
Their relationship is a microcosm of America as a whole. The underserved pull on their oppressors sleeves for more, more, more and start throwing around epithets when they don’t get it asap on a silver platter.
I’m good with Democrats having a negative attitude toward Johnson.