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Mr. Johnson has been eager to turn Chicago into a vanguard of the progressive left. Is apologizing for murdering children supposed to be part of this new political morality?
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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Lauren Underwood, House Rep 14th District Illinois famously refers to herself as a nurse. She is a licensed nurse in Illinois. She is said to be a silent Squad member, one may assume silent because she is mentioned as being groomed as possible Veep candidate. Nurses are supposed to operate with blindfold on: no matter her antipathy for others based upon their religion or skin color, she is professionally obliged to treat them with care unmitigated by her personal biases. Illinois Rep Lauren Underwood could be active in efforts to locate/rescue hostages taken by Hamas terrorists. This she could do… Read more »
She may be a licensed nurse, she may refer to herself as a nurse and she’s been seen in political ads dressed lie a nurse but has she actually ever worked as a nurse?
I don’t think Underwood has ever done any practical/traditional nursing. Most of her work was in health policy or research. The equivalent of obtaining a CPA then working for SAP implementing ERP systems.
“The resolution passed only after many leftwing Council members left the meeting in protest.”—-and you can rest assured all those “leftwing Council members” are all funded by are phony psuedo-socialist @ CTU on the taxpayers dime.