Wirepoints President Ted Dabrowski joins Tom Miller’s Morning Show on WJPF in Carbondale. They discussed pensions, COVID and a ballot initiative by the Illinois Opportunity Project to allow voters to recall elected officials.
I would believe in recalls if election counting and election corruption were not a reality. Everyone knows that elections can no longer be trusted to be valid. There is no chain of custody in ballots, hidden software does the counting, equipment is connected to the Internet ballots can be inserted on the fly. In the presidential election my wife and I both received Mali in ballots which we sent in, then we also went and voted in person because we didn’t trust that the mail in ballot wouldn’t be thrown in a garbage can. We didn’t go vote in person… Read more »
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Rob M
4 years ago
This is juvenile. Recall is the least of our needs. We need a constitutional convention that can take care of the redundant, excessive taxing bodies, trim pensions over 100G, put in term limits, have public financing of campaigns, limit lobbying, and a host of other things. Mere recall isn’t enough. We need a slate of new candidates who are not nuts, and who want to help this state get out from under decades of the thievery and mismanagement. The recall movements attracts sketchy people. We need thoughtful, committed leaders who will spare the poor of taking the brunt of the… Read more »
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.
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.
I would believe in recalls if election counting and election corruption were not a reality. Everyone knows that elections can no longer be trusted to be valid. There is no chain of custody in ballots, hidden software does the counting, equipment is connected to the Internet ballots can be inserted on the fly. In the presidential election my wife and I both received Mali in ballots which we sent in, then we also went and voted in person because we didn’t trust that the mail in ballot wouldn’t be thrown in a garbage can. We didn’t go vote in person… Read more »
This is juvenile. Recall is the least of our needs. We need a constitutional convention that can take care of the redundant, excessive taxing bodies, trim pensions over 100G, put in term limits, have public financing of campaigns, limit lobbying, and a host of other things. Mere recall isn’t enough. We need a slate of new candidates who are not nuts, and who want to help this state get out from under decades of the thievery and mismanagement. The recall movements attracts sketchy people. We need thoughtful, committed leaders who will spare the poor of taking the brunt of the… Read more »
You’ve listed a lot of needs, but no solutions. Recall would be a major step forward.