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Video of the Tuesday CNN interview is here with Pritzker comments on other matters, including blaming Republicans for border crisis.
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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What a putz. He tried to buy a Senate seat, he paid off a competitor to his competitor for reelection for governor and he would sell his soul to be in the oval office, even if through the VP door. Our governor 😱
Admitted and proven property tax cheat who shields his inherited billions in the Caymans from US taxes while increasing taxes and fees in IL residents to fund and protect the public pensions who keep his party in office while driving businesses and people to other states, including adjacent states with saner approaches to taxes who are thriving. He self funded his runs for governor, buying his seat after failing to get Blago to name him Senator and funded IL Supreme Court justices who suited his views while excoriating the US Supreme Court justices who don’t. Whatever his positives (supporting quantum… Read more »
The leopard’s spots finally show. Ol Jay Robert is trying to leave before he is voted out of this destroyed state, plus he has his eyes set on the WH. We cannot let this idiot
Succeed.
Spot on. Even Democrats are starting to figure out he is mimicked the state mushroom, a Giant Puffball.
He’s as delusional as his vision of a socialist/ Marxist utopia for IL.
Good God Help us. These people are actors. They are literally playing parts and saying anything that will get applause. These are not serious people looking to help the American people, their total focus is to “beat Donald Trump”. That is all they have to say, not how they are going to deal with all of the problems we know exist in the US for our citizens.
Speaking of a VP here is Harris talking about the Smollett case in 2019.
https://www.yahoo.com/news/retired-chicago-cop-exposed-jussie-080041939.html
The White House press secretary just said today that Scamula was NOT Biden’s boarder Czar.
Even he wants to escape Illinois.
Our fourth governor in a row to escape? Ryan and Blago went out of state to Federal Prison, Rauner moved to Florida permanently, and now JB goes to DC? Unheard of!
Just this morning he dismissed the idea on CNBC. And watch the video of the interview here. Even Erin Burnett seemed to be annoyed by Pritzker ducking her other questions. https://youtu.be/V0s4mGGZDFY?si=U_7M9bNApm8bPgRO
I’ve never seen a person talk out of both sides of his mouth like Pritzker does, he did the same thing when he was trying to decide on whether to run for re-election in Illinois then 2 days later guess what.