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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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Being rational must now mean being insane.
A liberal relative of mine in 19′, when I asked her who she’s going to vote for, and I mentioned Lighfoot, she said “yhea, that’s who I’m going to vote for, she’s the one that’s going to GET THE COPS”. Boy did she! Now she’s afraid to walk her once nice neighborhood. As all liberals, she has NO CLUE as to her roll in the mess that’s Chicago.
At the end of the day you’ll end up with the same policy ideas with a less abrasive personality delivering them with perhaps Paul Vallas being an exception. I have little hope of Chicagoans making the right choice.
Lori disappointed a lot of voters. As a number of the comments below suggest, a lot of us had some hope– if not high hope- for her. And she really fooled everyone on her personal traits by turning out to be a bitter, nasty, vulgar, no class whiner. Four or five of the other candidates would be an improvement for the City.
What’s Lori path to making the runoff? The only voters sticking with her are guilty white progressives. Everyone else has abandoned ship. Every race and political flavor has a better choice available than Lori. She’s looking like 4th place at best.
working the GWP’s is key to Chicago/ machine pols. Trouble is for machine with remote work, etc you can be just at easily be a GWP poseur in Charlotte NC w your blm sign or whatever at 1/2 the cost and 1/2 the hassle as Chicago
There`s no path short all out cheating Beetlejuice is done
As a lifelong Chicagoan, one would think the end of Lightweight should be the end of whole era of phony progressive mayoral candidates /equity hustle train wreak. She ran as supposedly being a progressive separate from all the fake-machine progressives (i.e. Preckwinle). Like many, I voted for her because it was the lesser of 2-evils, it was her or Preckwinkle. She got on all fours for the machine and still got douched (ie CTU types) as the rest of us have been taking it in the rear for decades. So going forward, what choices do Chicagoan’s have? 10 more fake-progressive… Read more »
When I lived in Detroit “city services” was a contradiction in terms.
Voting against Preckwinkle is what always comes to my mind when I hear and read things like this article describes. It is such a shame that it comes to the voting for the lesser of evils but it seems that is what it has come to these days in all elections. Perhaps if there were better turnouts in the primary elections but I have little doubt that would ever happen. Funny how we have all the ado these days about voting rights and then at the same time voter turnout is so low.
I’m not real impressed, but will probably vote for Vallas. If it comes down to Chuy, Johnson, or any of the other fake-progressive nut jobs, shockingly I may have to stick with lightweight.
I believe last mayoral election was all time low voter turnout or close to it with only approx 1/3 of registrar voters voting. low income folks don’t vote.
They must have. Light head got elected.
I am no expert, but it strikes me that Garcia is the favorite. Chicago is facing unprecedented financial challenges. (Emmanuel whatever one thinks of him knew this all too well). I don’t see how Garcia is up to the challenge of managing Chicago’s deep financial problems. The voters in Chicago don’t apparently care about financial pragmatism.
And yet you stated that you voted for Lighthead. You keep voting for so called progressive pols and expect different results. I heard that doing the same thing and expecting different results was the definition of something…… oh that’s right, insanity!