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"Pritzker ought to explain why the state is backing down in federal court, unless he’s too embarrassed now by his role in this cautionary tale of Democratic overreach."
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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Tyrants like Pritzker fear the first amendment.
Like everything else, the communists, lacking any real external enemy, instead focus their ire against their internal political enemies, and use every tool at their disposal to punish dissents. They aren’t scared of you or the first amendment. They just want to hurt you, and imprison you, because they don’t like you, and they grow tired of hearing you speak. They have nothing to fear, because they have all the power already. They just want to use their power to hurt you. It’s like this in every communist regime around that has ever existed.
Pritzker answers to no one! If someone dares to challenge one of his edicts he shall be smited! The great and mighty Pritzker has spoken!
And nobody will ask. When do reporters ever ask Pritzker a hard question? Never. I think they do a reasonably good job on Brandon Johnson, but Pritzker gets a free pass on everything.
Ask Pritzker a hard question, and watch those bi-annual campaign $$$ bonanza disappear? How much money did JB spend on Salem or Cumulus owned stations these past few election cycles? I’m a talk radio junkie, and I assure you, the answer was $0. He spent $0 on these stations. But he spent an awful lot everywhere else.