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Frerichs said a group of demonstrators with a bullhorn gathered outside his house at 3 a.m., demanding that he divest from "Israel bonds." The bonds underwrite the Israeli government and military.
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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Well. At least these terrorist loving vermin use correct punctuation and spelling. They’ve got that going for them. Clearly they aren’t CTU graduates or members.
Arrest those protestors.
Absolutely not. Democrat Treasurer Michael Frerichs chose to run as a Democrat, and he’s fed the Democrat demons for years. Let him live with the abomination he’s created. He deserves every ounce of this protest and more.
Ok my friend, give us your name/address and we’ll do the same at your place at 3am!
Protests should NOT occur at ones 🏠!
What Democrat is going to protest me? I’m literally a nobody, living in my parent’s basement, s**t-posting in my boxers at 2am waiting for my next disability check and my son to visit on weekends. I wholeheartedly agree in theory that protests should not occur at one’s home at 3 am. But I’m not a Democrat and I’m not going give my political enemies the same level of civility that I give to my allies. This Democrat spent a lifetime espouses progressive views and supporting the Democrat Party – which has the least civil political discourse tactics of any political… Read more »