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“Our public defender’s office is playing a key role in this fight. They have been working to provide legal representation to our immigrants facing deportation, ensuring that due process isn’t a privilege reserved for just a few,” Preckwinkle said. She said the county receives 111 federal grants totaling $746 million.
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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Great, 🙏 DOGE cuts ALL 111 federal grants to Crook County!
Somehow we’ll survive and the immigrants, illegals/legals can go to another country that they might prefer, as non immigrants can do too!
Until Preckwinkle starts taking care of Suburban Cook county, she should stop talking and step down. She only cares about Chicago
If you ever want to get Taxwinkle’s tentacles in a twist, hint that all that taxpayer money she loves to lavish upon the underserved is going away.
Thanks for the insight Preckwinkle. In totaling how much money is being diverted from the needs of actual tax-paying legal residents the cost of utilizing public defenders may have been overlooked.
And that is the crux of the problem…..
Due process? The process they are due is called deportation !
Tax winkle is upset that her grift is coming to an end.
She’s nearly as old as Trump with only a quarter of the energy and 1/10th of the intelligence. Her constituency wants the illegals gone.
Hey Grandma you did get 111 federal grants.
Wasting more of our tax dollars on protecting illegals.