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Prairie Band Potawatomi Nation Chairman Joseph “Zeke” Rupnick said passage of the three bills will benefit the 35,000 people of Native American heritage who live in Illinois.
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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Hmm, what about native Illinioisian heritage?
You gotta’ hand it to the guy. He really has mastered the art of spreading the manure around state politics. Of course these bills do anything material for Native American communities, but the BS machine keeps spinning out the puffery.