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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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Remember when JB committed to fair maps? Another broken promise by the Happy Warrior.
The exact opposite is happening in Wisconsin. The state voted 49% for Harris but the congressional delegation is 75% republican with only 2 democrats in congress. The state has voted basically blue at a statewide level (president, governor, senate) at least half the time over the last 10 election cycles but is under represented in congress just as the republicans are under represented in Illinois.
The pendulum will swing both ways. Illinois shifted 8 points to the right and nothing changed. Nothing. Not one house or senate or congressional seat flipped. But likewise, if Illinois shifts 8 degrees the other direction to the left, nothing will change either. This is feature, not a bug, of one party states.
Living in Illinois 13th I am fully aware of the problems of Illinois gerrymandering as it prevented me for having the opportunity to vote for someone other than the person picked by the “party” to vote for. Its rather ironic in a way that the members of the “party” are first up with chants of “democracy, democracy” yet are the very ones preventing democracy.
I thought gerrymandering was illegal. The congressional map of Illinois looks like a bad jigsaw puzzle and there are no repercussions.
When Bobby Rush’s district extends to Manhattan, you’ll know something is rotten in IL. He certainly isn’t representing the people there and to my knowledge has never been there unless heavily guarded.
Gerrymandering is not illegal. A conservative Supreme Court said several years back that gerrymandering is an inherently political process and is therefore legal.
What decision was that?