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"Brandon Johnson, many people stood behind you. They feel let down, because the day you came into office, which I believe was May 15, you already had signed an executive order," Chicago native Lauren Lawrence said, referencing Johnson's Day One order establishing a Deputy Mayor for Immigrant, Migrant and Refugee Rights. "I'm not against anyone coming in here legally. I want to say that clearly. But for those who have not, they don't top us. They don't go before us. We're not last in line."
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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At it’s core, the community is upset that ‘white wealth’ and ‘black labor’ are being used to pay for ‘illegal immigrants’ instead of black folk. “Give us the free stuff, not them” is what they’re saying. But the CTU needs new students to offset massively declining enrollment, and the fecundity of these south american teens will provide much needed students in the very near future. And the Biden Admin demands he feed and houses these people. And when they displace the current Black residents, the city’s violent crime rate will drop by 2/3rds or more, as the newest demographic is… Read more »
You should have known you couldn’t trust Brandon.