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Burke was reelected in February 2019 despite an attempted extortion charge filed against him the month prior. A grand jury handed up his racketeering indictment later, in May 2019.
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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The more astute know that kicking it a little further moves it off their plate. With a house cleaning on the horizon, why knife someone! Burke will be back like Dracula, his new role is mentoring Lori and prevent her from eating her shoes, too often!
Where has Burke been hiding? I can’t imagine he’d be holed up in that bizarre fortress by Midway. The Blue Line runs within feet of the rear of the fort. Judicious use of your surroundings, the third rail discourages porch climbers. He can’t be that much of a pariah, there’s a CPD SUV parked in front of the house. Professional courtesy from short staffed Brown. Lori’s OK with that too! Hmmmm…..?
I am confident that Burke will be re-elected…after all this is Illinois.
Re-elected and then cleared of all charges. An alliance will be born with Herself. The cost of walking will be wrangling all the renegades that give Lori the finger. There will be a photo op of Herself and Edmund as he’s embraced in the council!
Absurd? Yea! Possible? Maybe!
Tell me not that somehow his wife is involved in these delays, pays to be a dirty politician in Illinois
More slow walking of the legal system for the benefit of Democrats. Further evidence of Americas two-tiered justice system. Slow soft gloves for Democrats. The instant wrath of God for Republicans.
why not set the trial date like ten years from now….more of the same corruption in Illinois….hold that trial now
A sudden debilitating illness will strike just before trial and Eddie “The Thief” Burke will be too sick to stand the rigors of a trial. Case dismissed.