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Ald. Andre Vasquez said, “that it seemed simple to find housing when the city needs to hide people” and that Mayor Brandon Johnson’s focus on clearing out the encampment most visible to the tens of thousands of expected DNC visitors — when he had campaigned on actually helping them — falls flat.
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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Dems always cover up the truth……why is this different?
He’s taking a page out of Newsome’s book when a real communist was in town!
Can you say Potemkin Village?? I am certain that CTU member and past selective enrollment CTU Teacher BJ has no clue what a Potemkin Village means. Duh. Someone else cleaned up all the rot in another place long ago before the Monarch cruised past??? Duh? That’s RACIST!! UH? Its us CTU Black folks doing it?? Huh Duh? Then ANYONE who opposes this cleans up is Racist!!!!! Or Nazis!! Or Racist Nazis!! Or maybe Nazi Racists?? Or are MAGA!!! That’s it they are MAGA!!!! MAGA RACIST NAZI’S!!!! That’s it…… MAGA RACIST NAZIS!!!! Likes the ones who attacked Juicy Smollet!!!!
What ever became of ol Juicy?