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Ald. Gilbert Villegas — who, along with Ald. Chris Taliaferro and Ald. Bill Conway, is a veteran — said the oath they take to defend the U.S. “doesn’t have an expiration date. ... We don’t have our weapons … [but] we do have the power of the pen as legislators,” Villegas said. “I thought it’d be very hypocritical for folks that were being convicted to then want to work for government — the same process that they tried to eliminate.”
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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It does not change the election outcome. The voters spoke.
” in 2024, with the city reporting 47,835 fewer licensed businesses than in 2005. That’s a 62 percent drop.”
This say’s it all; the city’s going into bankruptcy.
Didn’t all these russian agents from J6 go back to Russia. If these trumpkins are still here, sure they are not into working instead of begging for handouts
This is nothing more than pure virtue signaling. How any people from Chicago got caught up in the Fedserection? How many want to work for.the lunatic Leftists that run Chicago? My bet is few to none!
“infamous and disgraceful conduct“ – if that’s the standard then many on the city council would have to go, likewise Pritzker for undermining US immigration and his Safe-T Act.
Hey Gil, check out how many cons are working for mayor Raggedy, as “ violence interrupters “, or how many people in various levels of the local government have been identified as stealing PPP money and then get back to us.
Pretty sure this is illegal!
Perhaps so, but probably any costs for defending the suits, or payment for damages, would be borne by the City, not the individual Alders.
Hence, the taxpayers.
But yet you will allow a convicted felon Black Panther Bobby Rush to hold political office, you people are nothing but racial bastards.
Bobby Rush and William Ayres are plain and simple terrorists. Period. They should be in Gitmo. Disgusting scum.
Why on earth would any of those pardoned even WANT to work for the government, LET ALONE Illinois.
Steal a page from the activists/ SJW/ Marxist playbook and destroy the corrupt government from within. Sounds good to me.
There are actually lots of useful things that government does, tho not always efficiently. Picks up the garbage, provides water and sewer, sort of maintains the streets,
educates the children.So someone who wants to do such things would probably work for a government.What are you hoping to accomplish? Don’t you have bigger problems to solve?
Those in power in Chicago really do not want to solve any problems. They only create them.
Most of these fools still think police officers were murdered on J6.
Enough of the I’m a vet. You’re a buffoon. After the insurrection comment its clear you know nothing about oaths.
Just as illegal as JB the Hutt’s blanket ban.
Hey WBEZ, the word is Alderman. The defunding of NPR can’t come soon enough.