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“The governor is leading by example. I mean, the guy is advocating very, very strongly and very, very emphatically, very, very nationally. Especially on abortion and guns. That’s right down Main Street for progressives,” said Christopher Mooney, a professor emeritus of political science at the University of Illinois at Chicago.
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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Replace “big tent” with “big top” and you’ll have a more apt caption.
This article is pretty stupid. Republicans won the popular vote by 3M in 2022 when ‘women’s rights’ were on the ballot and back out crazy California and Republicans won the national vote by 5M in the 49 other normal states, if my back of the napkin math is correct. The reason why Republicans lose in IL so badly is no secret: there aren’t enough of us here, we’ve been gerrymandered into irrelevance, and voter fraud/ballot harvesting gives Democrats the edge in contested races. It’s the reverse situation in Indiana, or Tennessee with the Democrats having super-minority positions, and there just… Read more »
The Chicago Tribune reports that Democrats have a big progressive tent because ‘everyone’ agrees that the Republicans who aren’t in it are irrelevant and don’t count.
Sadly, for a variety of reasons, that does indeed get truer every day.