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Kwame Raoul told a senate committee on Tuesday that on top of the several services his office does to protect consumers in the state, his team has added a lot of hours battling federal lawsuits with the Trump administration.
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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Remember what you said Governor Pritzker – any increase in spending has to show a proportional cut somewhere else. Perhaps the Illinois Attorney General should limit himself to the illegal affairs occurring within Illinois and stay within budget.
Perhaps Kwame the Smiling Cobra could give the taxpayers an account of how much money and manpower was wasted influencing a WI Supreme Court election, going to other states to push the trans in sports agenda and joining in useless lawsuits instead of investigating corruption in Dolton, Harvey etc.