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Bailey’s challenger, Gov. J.B. Pritzker, derided the threat, tweeting that “the violent rhetoric and division we’re seeing across the country is unacceptable.”
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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Anyone that threatens politicians or judges, foreign or domestic sourced, has to be discovered and prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law, and that law (or political response for foreign actors) must be high impact so to dissuade future such actions.
Was he in his underwear and somehow mysteriously within a very secure area when he made this threat? Doesn’t everyone understand that it was a “fiery but mostly peaceful threat”?
Under the SAFE-T Act this would be a non-detainable offense.
https://repbatinick.com/2022/09/16/repeal-the-safe-t-act/
“Starting next year, Illinois’ non-detainable offenses will include: aggravated battery, aggravated DUI, aggravated fleeing, arson, burglary, drug-induced homicide, intimidation, kidnapping, robbery, 2nd-degree murder, and threatening a public official.”
This should be Bailey and/or Proft’s next campaign ad
I just checked twitter and Hillary Clinton hasn’t blamed left wing hateful rhetoric for the cause. I’m sure she will comment any moment.