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Welch’s office initially defended the issuance of the order based on the highly dubious rationale that lawmakers engaging in such conversations could create an ethical breach — even though such discussions are constitutionally protected First Amendment free speech and the speaker’s staff could produce no statutory prohibitions on lawmakers answering questions from reporters at the State Capitol or elsewhere.
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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Just like the clown that floated the ideas of no drivers licenses or plate stickers and the other one pushing churches for reparations, they are always throwing out something outrageous and hoping that it sticks.
If DJT said the same thing, the howls would be deafening…
The Leftist Democrats and their authoritarianism comes right from the top with Joe Biden. The Red States are the real America, not the Blue States or the Imperial Capitol in D.C.
For once, the Trib actually tried to investigate some Dem shenanigans. The Dems reacted pretty quickly, trying to muzzle the Trib reporter for not going along with the usual “see no evil, hear no evil”, eyes closed. And doubled down, until the optics started looking bad with even their usual defenders in the media protesting. Would like to see more of this investigative reporting of Democrats. (Easy, the Republicans barely exist).
Yeah, this doesn’t make Welch look bad at all. Clown.