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The first email to City Colleges instructors urging them ask their students to volunteer for the Lightfoot campaign was sent Aug. 19, 2022; The second was sent Monday. The email sent in August prompted at least one instructor to file a complaint with the City Colleges’ ethics office. It is unclear whether that complaint prompted an investigation, or the status of that probe.
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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Nothing new here. Harold Washington did it in the 80’s when he gave social studies credit to high school seniors at at least three West Side high schools to help citizens to the polls on Election Day.
I’m looking forward to the Columbia College satirical play on her life from Ohio to the Mayor’s office.
I didn’t know . I’m really sorry . It won’t happen again. Only if I get caught
How is she not in jail for this?
What charges would you level against LL? She’s claiming plausible deniability about the recruiting.
Politicians tend to throw others under the bus – take Madigan for instance.