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.
Says the guy that funneled almost a half billion dollars into his own campaigns to purchase two terms as governor.
Funny how JB gets his feathers ruffled when others employ the same tactics that have people in DC sitting up and taking notice. It’s okay for he ( and Kwame ) to influence the SC election in WI, tell other states how they should handle the trans in female sports issues, lavish money upon the likes of Stratton and promise to address gerrymandering, only to take action on that front that favors Dems, but if someone else plays “ Pritzker politics “ here comes the hot air.