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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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Dastardly. They moved solid red precincts to Welch’s district (where they were wasted) and replaced them with blue ones.
https://twitter.com/CitizenVMachine/status/1592698257159098370
And the Democrat partisan DuPage County Clerk took her marching orders to illegally count likely illegal and fraudulent mail in ballots until the Democrat won by a few hundred votes knowing that a gerrymandered Democrat Appellate Court would back her up! Dastardly!
Mazzochi is unusually smart for an Illinois lawmaker and has the best communication skills of the bunch. It’s no wonder Dems had it out for her. And big salute to Jim Dey for covering this. He is about the only columnist in the regular media in Illinois who is worth a shit, and he is worth a lot.
I had no idea the appellate court overturned the lower court ruling. We had only heard from reporters that the IL Supreme Court refused to hear her case. But the next time someone here says, “OH BUT YOU CAN’T PROVE ELECTION FRAUD, WHERE IS YOUR EVIDENCE???” I’ll point to Mazzochi’s race as evidence that election fraud is baked into the cake. If the county clerk will illegally count ballots until the Democrat wins, what chance to the rest of us have of ever winning? I know it’s bad for moral to point out that in IL all the races are… Read more »
Mark-100% agree. Mazzochi was dynamite common sense communicator /politician that could appeal to reps and suburban moderates (like me). Just what the machine fears most.
Instead the machine couldn’t be happier with Trumpie/Bailey GOP continuing as the Gift That Keeps Giving. What world are Ill GOP in, they just got their clock cleaned? Read this—– https://finance.yahoo.com/news/republican-grassroots-activists-vent-post-000900920.html
Not a single mention of a plan to harvest ballots in the article. This is literally the only thing that matters. IL GOP needs to find a way to harvest 3.5 million straight ticket R ballots in 2024 for a Republican presidential candidate to win the state.
What is the plan, IL GOP?