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Chicago Board of Education president Sean Harden showed up at a recent bid conference for 108 O’Hare concession contracts, even as he works to execute Mayor Brandon Johnson’s education agenda and tries to pave the way for the mayor’s chief of staff, Cristina Pacione-Zayas, to become interim CEO of the Chicago Public Schools.
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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“We don’t see nobody nobody sent.”
All over again. The leopards never change their spots.
Chicago, the city that works…to grift, steal and screw you.
And so, the grift begins with this dude. Gosh, do you think this would be a conflict? hmmm, let me think about it…um…yep it would be a conflict. All of a sudden this guy is in the food business? A little quid pro quo here ya think?…you help the mayor get his unqualified girl in as CEO at the School District with a giant salary and perhaps that concession contract at O’hare goes a certain way…. Wink-wink, say nomore…(Sorry Monty Python reference) This is the same arrogant “professional” that wanted the broke CPS to provide him with a fulltime driver… Read more »
He appears to be the type that feels flash and bluster will distract from his unqualified incapabilities. We know how that worked out for Bedazzled Henyard.
Kids, today’s spelling lesson word is “kleptocracy.”