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Members of the City Council’s Black Caucus on Saturday called for Mayor Brandon Johnson’s floor leader to resign his post after allegedly trying to physically restrain an alderperson from entering the City Hall chamber during a chaotic Council meeting last week.
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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As a gay Chicagoan, I find Ramirez-Rosa’s actions completely reprehensible and call upon him to resign.
Who cares that you’re gay? No one cares. If anything, it hurts you. You’re an anonymous person behind a computer screen typing words. You will be judged solely on the content of your comments and nothing more, nothing less. When you start throwing identity politics (I’m this, I’m that) into your comments, you’ve already lost…
Interesting use of the “gay card” considering nothing in the article mentioned anything about being gay or gay legislation. Perhaps you could fill me in on why this is a “gay” issue?
Great to know there’s a diverse group of wp readers out there!! And actual Chicagoans to boot (like me), commenting on the city they actually live in!!