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One resident who spoke at the city council meeting on Wednesday slammed Mayor Brandon Johnson. "Who are you loyal to? The American citizens in Chicago or the illegal immigrants in Chicago?," the man said. "The sanctuary law that Brandon Johnson allowed has brought criminals, drug dealers, and now terrorists."
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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I look forward to seeing Tom Homan drag BJ’s raggedy carcass to federal prison. No makeup artists there for de mayor. Just one continuous panic attack instead.
You sound like the unhinged wackos pretending Trump would go to jail. These deranged fantasies of locking up the opposition need to stop. Clearly both parties have diseased individuals that need help with their derangement syndrome. Beat your opponent in the arena of ideas not through the threat of prison.
Democrat were ready to lock Trump up if he lost the election. The evidence is that Democrat allied prosecutors aggressively and in a high profile manner brought several serious felony criminal cases against him in multiple jurisdictions all at the same time. Fortunately for Trump, the prosecutor in GA was sleeping with her main investigator, and Judge Cannon in Florida is a huge Trump fan. He was convicted in New York of ’34’ felonies in the weeks before the election; and the J6 case in DC was only delayed because of a SCOTUS ruling on presidential immunity. You don’t load… Read more »
If that’s what Chicago needs to foot the bill and keep them from leaving the city. Also, no more subsidies from Cook county government
To be clear, the proposal was about illegal aliens that come to Illinois and commit crimes. Chicago just voted to protect these people and allow them to continue their criminal activities. The city of Chicago does not want criminals to apprehended, period.