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The GOP nominee for governor gained fame as the voice of opposition on cultural issues — gun rights, abortion — at the statehouse. But he passed few bills of his own.
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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There is a saying that every time you pass a law, you lose a freedom. I don’t hold it against Bailey that he authored few bills, I look at that as a good thing. We are all better off when government passes less legislation rather than more.
“But he passed few bills of his own.”
Or, Super-Majority Democrat controlled legislature shelves all Republican bills, disenfranching 40% of voters in the state.
Where are all these “critics” when an article is written about the fat man?
Getting paid off bro