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.
He was told to make some noise.
No shite Sherlock! I wonder how long it took for little Tommy Dart to figure that out?
He’s known this all along, but until now, he’s been too cowardly to contradict the official Democrat party line of lies and anarcho-tyranny. Tom Dart is running for reelection next year and if he doesn’t get enough moderate Democrats to the polls in the primary, he’s toast, and some crazy progressive will outflank him from the left. He’s concerned that Tim Evan’s and Kim’s Policies are going to rub off on his reelection campaign. As one of the few county wide elected officials from the oppressor class, he knows his days are numbered.