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Comment: Thank God! She's among the biggest frauds in Illinois. She has managed to maintain an image as some sort of high minded, Hyde Park progressive, which she was decades ago, but in fact a total sellout, and nothing more than Michael Madigan's chief lieutenant in the Illinois House.
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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Dumber than the proverbial box of rocks, and she does nothing more than read scripts and answers supplied by Madigan. Thank God she’s gone. Not an original thought in her tiny head. Wish her brain was as big as her mouth.