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Core member Patrice Stewart said, “At a recent City Hall meeting, I was stunned to see aldermen speaking in Spanish without any interpretation for English-speaking citizens. This violates our rights and shows how other communities can have their way while we’re left in the dark; it’s time for us to show up, speak up, and demand better treatment from our government officials.”
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 find it funny you did not see this happening under Obama…which really tells you what the black community in Chicago thinks of him.
I recognize the one lady from the tongue lashing she gave Johnson, viewed thousands ( millions?) of times on You Tube. I’m sure Johnson remembers her as well.
Patrice, welcome to the modern version of the back of the bus and I’ll bet you’ve voted Democratic your whole life.
Like I’ve posted before. It will not take much to make Illinois a swing state by just getting a few hundred thousand voters from Chicago. People are waking up to see how they are being replaced by border jumpers in the inner city. Free everything to the jumpers and next to nothing for citizens.
The NYT just released its new version of the extremely detailed map. Chicago shifted several points to the right for Trump but most precincts were D+70 or greater. Doubtful Republicans can ever improve on that with anyone other than trump. The real change was in the suburbs which also went even further to the right by several more points. We are now a slightly less shade of dark blue vs. a dark, dark blue. My ‘purple’ town had Trump win a handful of precincts. The downtown area still virtue singaled Kamala at D+30, but in my precinct, Trump only lost… Read more »
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