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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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Dave Wasserman
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It’s worth noting IL Dems didn’t have great options for shoring up Bustos’s district, #IL17. The hypothetical 14D-3R map below features 13 districts Clinton/Biden won by 10%+. But #IL17 would’ve shifted just two points left, from Trump +1 to Clinton/Biden +1.
Don’t be surprised if Illinois plummets down to only 1 or 2 Republican seats; some bold progressive nutjob will likely propose a map with Zero republicans. many states are doing this. Kentucky about to get rid of it’s one Democrat seat and Maryland is about to do the same for it’s one Republican seat. And they’re all neatly drawn ‘competitive’ maps too, unlike IL’s maps that are outrageously gerrymandered.
Dems do nothing if not cheat. it is the only thing they know how to do.
I don’t care what happens in Illinois as long as the Republicans take the House in 2022.
really? What about THIS map:
That real?