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A host city has to provide free transportation for delegates to the convention venues from their hotels; designate “free speech” areas for demonstrations; provide robust digital capacity in the main venues — think miles of high-capacity fiber-optic and data lines. A host city committee must also have the fundraising heft to raise millions of dollars to cover other convention-related expenses. Gov. J.B. Pritzker; Sen. Tammy Duckworth, a DNC co-chair; and Mayor Lori Lightfoot have been quarterbacking the city’s bid.
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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Sure, have convention here. Expose these jackasses to the world they have created. There will be plenty of crime for them here.
Chicago is a front runner for the DNC convention.
Whoopie!
Conventions used to be in Swing States.
Now the Cheat System is in place there is no need (aka Ballot Harvesting & Vote by Mail)
This is why Chicago will host this in 2024. Just watch.
Just when you think Democrats can’t be so stupid, they prove you wrong again.
At least there will be far fewer cops to bust Leftist heads than there were in 1968!
Sarc.
Ironically, Nixon won the 1968 election after the Republican convention in Miami, FL. Maybe history does repeat itself.