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Gotion, an electric vehicle battery manufacturer with ties to the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) has suspended its permit application to build a plant near a Michigan National Guard base following fierce opposition. The fight continues, however, to stop the one Gotion plans for Manteno, 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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Now if they would help IL fight Gotion and JB.
I think that’s coming. Congressmen who oppose Gotion will now turn their attention to Manteno. And an anti-Gotion slate took over the village government in yesterday’s election.
As I see it the anti-Gotion slate only won 2 of the 3 trustee elections it needed to win in order to control the board. I think the new mayor will be out voted 4-2 in the new board configuration.
The anti-Gotion people in Manteno believe the uncounted mail-in ballots leave 3 of the seats undecided at this point, and they think they will likely win 2 of those three seats for the board. Mayor would then be tie-breaker, and new mayor is anti-Gotion.
It looks like 2 of the trustees have been elected with one left to be determined. Shaw is reporting that the Freedom Party (anti-gotion) will only get 2 of the 3 trustee positions they needed to control the board. The last seat to be determined is between 2 Freedom Party candidates.
https://www.shawlocal.com/daily-journal/news/2025/04/03/lamore-tops-gesky-for-manteno-mayor/