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Since her election eight years ago, Kim Foxx has stood as a lightning rod for controversy, whose prosecutorial decisions and policies have helped fuel her national and local reputation for being soft on crime and often promoting the interests of those accused of crime over those of the community the state's attorney is tasked with helping to protect. This year, two candidates have emerged to replace her: former Appellate Court Justice Eileen O'Neill Burke and former prosecutor and longtime political consultant, staffer and lobbyist Clayton Harris III.
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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“Ben Crump, a celebrity Florida lawyer with ties to Chicago, who has asserted that crime in America would end immediately if the country redefined crime to exclude “black culture.” ”
Crump is an ambulance chasing racist POS.
Taxwinkle’s chosen one already getting his name painted on the door. Let’s stop the charade of non- blacks attaining any meaningful government offices in CHI and Cook County for the foreseeable future, ok?