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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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Curran has a simple job: oppose everything the Democrats want. When the Democrats plans make everything worse his endless opposition will be a huge plus
Sorry, wrong answer. Curran’s job is to build a ballot harvesting operation so extensive that it rivals tammany hall. She needs to harvest formerly D ballots and turn them R. He needs to harvest 3.6 million ballots by November 2024 to beat Biden and flip the house/senate in Springfield. The D supermajority means that no republican needs to even show up in springfield. The legislature can operate without any Republicans even showing up, and no one would know the difference. They don’t even need Republicans for a quorm. I’d be just find with Curran never setting foot even once in… Read more »
He is rather delusional to think he will achieve balance working with a bunch of Marxist Radicals. This article is almost laughable.
BALLOT HARVESTING. THAT IS THE ONLY ISSUE THAT MATTER. NOTHING ELSE. WE NEED 3.4 TO 3.6 REPUBLICAN STRAIGHT REPUBLICAN BALLOTS IN 2024 TO FLIP THE STATE.
LITERALLY NOTHING ELSE MATTERS.