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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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Another example of a judge in Illinois. As the bailiff in a Cook County courtroom once announced, “ Hear ye, hear ye, this branch of the circus court is now in session”.
“I did not sleep well last night. I usually sleep peacefully. I was thinking about Judge Dugan in Wisconsin,” stated overpaid political hack Judge James Knecht. Good! He shouldn’t support coddling judges who break the law!
“Reminiscent of King George, Hitler and Mussolini,” Knecht wrote. Baloney!
That Illinois judge must be woefully ignorant of the law and should be removed immediately from the bench for that ignorance.
Jimmy Knecht is having trouble processing criminal law accurately. Due to these difficulties understanding law, we have little faith in his ability to adjudicate cases brought before him. Jimmy should be removed from the bench himself and be forcibly retired. “(David) Shestokas said physically arresting the judge is a bit unusual.” Really, Dave? Now do physically arresting a President on false charges in order to interfere in a Federal election. Illinois Republicans shouldn’t be useful idiots to the left and that comment gets Dave dangerously close to volunteering for the job. “No one is above the law” the leftists jeered.… Read more »
She helped someone who was in court for domestic violence escape. She broke the law. She didn’t care about the victims.
I guess we found another activist in a judge’s robe that, like Pritzger and Kwame, feels WI’s business is his also. I nominate him for chief justice.. of traffic court.