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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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Ms. Foxx, you want people to *volunteer their time* to work at understaffed court houses, then lead by example and do it first…
Foxx couldn’t prosecute parking ticket case much less a criminal case. Bottom of the barrel law school grad and very likely benefitted from the affirmative action BS.
I wonder what Kimmy’s payoff is?
I’ll bet the three letter agencies could scrounge up some interesting bank accounts, foreign and domestic, that would help answer that.
Too bad the agencies are on her side.
The state’s attorney’s office hires a lot of mid-tier attorneys who quickly gain courtroom and trial experience. The office goes out of its way to hire black and brown assistant state’s attorneys and is known as a big minority recruiter in a professional that is still overwhelmning white. And now, these days, with minority recruitment being the absolute #1 priority at law firms, the easiest way to hire minorities is to poach them from the state’s attorneys office because it is cheaper and easier than a lateral hire from a competing law firm. This works great for Kim Foxx because… Read more »
Yup, just like Foxx doesn’t care about criminals running wild in the streets, she surely doesn’t care about the content of the character of anyone who works for her, but only about the color of their skin.
No reporter will do it, but someone should ask clowns like Foxx who run the city, “What would MLK think of the job you’re doing?”
When some future Edward Gibbon writes his magnum opus on Chicago he’ll have a chapter dedicated to Kim Foxx and her mentor George Soros.