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"The case for Pritzker is easy to make." However, in a podcast setting, Pritzker "was an amiable but not especially compelling guest. The coin of the realm on such shows is small-talk riffing and discursive, big-ideas bullshitting, and he excelled at neither. He does not have the podcast juice, or at least does not have it yet."
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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“… He does not have the podcast juice, or at least does not have it yet.”? Yeah, but he has bunches of money that he can “donate” to you to convince you otherwise.
Same way JB “donated” Millions to Black Community Leaders and their initiatives after the JB/Blago tapes came out with Pritzker saying that Jesse White was the “least offensive” Black candidate running for an Illinois office. :-/
Hopefully the odds of him winning are slim.
America’s Worst Governor being the Dems best hope lightens the heart of many a Republican.
The Case for Pritzker is easy to make if you are willfully ignorant of his drawbacks.
He loudly and proudly governs according to what leftists believe His “drawbacks” are the inevitable consequences of following those beliefs. The left needs to learn that they can’t have the ideas without the “drawbacks”.
“The case for Pritzker is easy to make.”
Sure. By desperate Dems who haven’t had to live under JB the Hutt’s gross mal-management of Illinois.
The taxpayers of Illinois beg to differ.