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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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She has done nothing for this city! She sends her kid to a “white high income private school”
What a joke. Go away Lori!
Even more pathetic is that the woke white reporters in Chicago think this is all ok, they feel they deserve to be deprived of their interviews for their skin color. They don’t see this as the racism it is.. Case in point, that Mary Ann Ahern from NBC totally rolls over, “oh yes I deserve to be discriminated against”, Ill just step aside… And Lightfoot is the biggest snowflake ever, no backbone, she probably goes to bed every night in her police guarded house focusing on herself instead of the city thats falling apart due to her lack of a… Read more »
Lightfoot so foolishly doubles down. Once again, Chicago and Illinois look like a freak show.
Problem is not one damn politician gives a crap
Based on her behavior, it is hard to conceive of her success in the law as anything other than advancement due to “diversity”.
What a racist piece of junk. And a complete hypocrite.
She will be gone soon as well Complete failure!
She must resign.
Along with chuckles the clown (Pritzker)
I assume she is also granting interviews to all dwarf and lesbian journalists, consistent with her identifying groups.
Extremely offensive…. She is a hobbit, not a dwarf….
I’m sure once sued, Lightfoot will say “Just foolin’. Man, you people are sensitive!”
This proves that she is a racist against white people and should be immediately forced to resign.
Her biggest block of supporters are white libs. Or folks like me, who voted for her because it was her or preckwinkle
When the choice is between a giant douche or a turd sandwich, this is what you get.
Or avoid it entirely and leave Chicago like I did. I at least live in a purple suburb, which is a VAST improvement over Chicago. Progressives move out here and occasionally try to run for alderman on lunatic progressive issues and lose by 2:1 ratios because even centrist Democrats out here will vote for Republicans in local elections but Democrats in national elections.
And you are an idiot.
I often joke that the voters had to vote her in because she was the D candidate. Thanks for confirming that for me.
You a re a fool!
Racism today is called equity and is necessary to atone for the past sins of others. So Lori is righting past wrongs by only granting interviews to BIPOC. Somehow, some way, her actions are making the universe a better place, counteracts some other racist act in America during the previous two centuries, so it all evens out. We are all so naive to think that ending racism would end racism, oh, no….we were wrong…..anti-racism means that whites today must actively be discriminated against to atone for the sins of other people who lived before us who all happened to share… Read more »
an openly RACIST BLACK mayor how long would a white mayor get away with this
If story is true, then Wirepoints should sue Lightfoot/City of Chicago for racial discrimination. Maybe John Kass can join you; other white Trib reporters are probably in agreement with Lightfoot and have cancelled themselves already.