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The only recall Illinois has is a measure to recall a governor, implemented after former Gov. Rod Blagojevich was arrested in 2008, but critics say it’s a high threshold.
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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They technically do have that power.
Its called assassination. Now that said it should be the last resort but when we are dealing with elected officials that are so rotten, corrupt and do not serve the people at all then there is no other choice.
Hmmm…..Who sets the bar? The boilerplated shtbags, that’s who!
Does anybody out there think that the dumb ass voters in Cook/County/Chicago will recall a demoncrat they elected? Dream on.
Recall elections should be automatic every year — why give them 4 years to fail upwards