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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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North Carolina man’s speech at city council meeting about gun rights goes viral – YouTube
Click on the link, it is super good.
This guy says it like it was.
Time to drain the swamp … 18 U.S. Code § 241 – Conspiracy against rights “If two or more persons conspire to injure, oppress, threaten, or intimidate any person in any State, Territory, Commonwealth, Possession, or District in the free exercise or enjoyment of any right or privilege secured to him by the Constitution or laws of the United States, or because of his having so exercised the same; or If two or more persons go in disguise on the highway, or on the premises of another, with intent to prevent or hinder his free exercise or enjoyment of any… Read more »
It’s 18 U.S. Code § 242 – Section 242 of Title 18 makes it a crime for a person acting under color of any law to willfully deprive a person of a right or privilege protected by the Constitution or laws of the United States.
242 applies to a single person, 241 applies to more than one person acting together. In this case, either could be used depending on how the suit was written.
If JB is expert at anything, it’s his personal understanding of being “in violation of oath of office.” Law enforcement serve and protect and politicians are charged to serve the best interest of their constituents. The way JB and his cohort are dragging down this once great state seems very much “in violation of their oath of office.” This knee jerk law will not stop mass shootings, a frequent occurrence with handguns in Chicago streets. Mass shootings are a symptom of something far greater. Criminals don’t follow the law – law-abiding citizens do. This law is just the beginning of… Read more »
Sheriffs are duty bound to not enforce laws that are unconstitutional — good for them
They’re duty bound to not follow illegal orders
Why should government employees obey the laws of the State. All government employees make up their own rules and laws. #1- Rule is cheat the taxpayer whenever you can.
So, Pritzker & the progressive-n-woke et al can decide that Illinois is a “sanctuary state” for illegal aliens, and that it’s OK for them to ignore Federal immigration laws, but it’s intolerable for Illinois counties and sheriffs to decide they’re going to become 2nd Amendment sanctuaries, and ignore Pritzker. This gun ban, combined with the SAFE T Act (Safety Act – what an oxymoron) pretty much makes it plain that criminals who don’t-n-won’t follow ANY firearms laws continue to do what they want without consequence in Illinois, while law abiding gun owners knuckle under or go to jail. I’m looking… Read more »
They will line up as required and herded into the showers. Those democrat voters who chose the state government in Illinois deserve to be treated that way.
You are so right.
Yep, and Trevon Garland didn’t get the memo either…..
Support the patriotic Resistance!! Oppose the fat man’s tyranny!!