Wirepoints’ Mark Glennon on AM560’s Morning Answer
April 22, 2026
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Summary and audio linked here.
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U.S. attorneys are appointed by presidents and typically new presidents ask for the resignations of nearly all at the beginning of a new administration, but Lausch had rare bipartisan support. When then-President Trump appointed Lausch, the attorney had the support of both Illinois’ Democratic senators -- Richard Durbin and Tammy Duckworth.
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Mark Glennon on AM560’s Morning Answer: Chicago pension buyout plan mostly shifts debt rather than eliminating it, property tax surge doubles inflation over three decades
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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.
Senile Joe is guilty of Obstruction of Justice, an impeachable offense
Madigan controls Illinois just like Biden has an earpiece with Obama and Jarrett telling him what he is to do.
I sincerely believe both Durbin and Duckworth are beholden to Madigan. And regardless of Lausch, Madigan still controls Illinois, now through his surrogate Welch. (If ever there was a weak candidate with a closet of known misdemeanors, who can easily be controlled, it’s Welch.) Durbin and Duckworth have no interest, nor political motivation, to support such criminal investigations, or prosecutions, of political corruption here in Illinois, Cook County, or Chicago. They are products of the Madigan-Daley political combine. They are proxies of Madigan and Daley. They owe their political careers to these king-makers. Litmus test for US prosecutors in Illinois… Read more »
Thanks for flagging those Chicago Contrarian articles. We have been neglecting to watch them and post things.