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"There’s no winning with this bunch, which appears content to oversee a judicial version of Joseph Heller’s Catch-22."
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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I live in south suburban Cook County and have zero representation. My town is in a Chicago dusty. No county representation. Federal representative is from Downers grove and he doesn’t know where my town is. Take redistricting to the Supreme Court, as Il Supreme Court bought and paid for by Pritzker.
That won’t help. Unfortunately, the US Supreme Court has already ruled that it won’t rule on redistricting cases, sayin that’s not for the courts. It was a monumentally bad decision and is the source of much of our tribalism, division and cynicism. https://publicintegrity.org/politics/state-politics/supreme-court-gerrymandering/
Illinois corruption at its best! Even the judiciary is corrupt!
“Illinois’ political maps don’t yield results that represent the will of the people. ” Oh but according to PPF, it does. The people voted for Democrats who would rig the system to ensure that only Democrats would be elected. And two election cycles ago, when it seemed like maybe Republicans might win a seat or two on the court, it was the will of the people that the elected Democrat majority would rewrite the districts favorable to Democrats, so that Democrats would win those seats. And if the Republicans complain that things are unfair, the people voted for Democrats to… Read more »
You can always move to Indiana.
That was decades ago even if what you say is true. We don’t want redistricting to be a political tool. Some of these changes don’t represent the will of the people today.
Rutherford should be disbarred.