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Foxx had others to blame: “Every day my office is under attack, from a president who uses our city as a punching bag. The NRA, hell bent on letting guns flood our streets. And the FOP, clinging to old ways. They’ll do anything to undercut progress, including attacking me personally over the Jussie Smollett case,” Foxx says.
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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When you stink at your job, just blame Trump and the NRA… smh… this clown will probably get re-elected, because you know, orange man bad!
Using the word “well” implies that she handled it in the first place.
Very refreshing to hear a politician admit that the cover up wasn’t handled very well
Typical useless politician, all she has are excuses. But when you have diversity, elections are simply racial head counts. Her office sets low or no bail for those under 21 caught with handguns, and she blamed the NRA? “Reports of shoplifting in Chicago have risen over 25% in recent years following policy changes under Cook County State’s Attorney Kim Foxx. Some retailers are blaming Foxx’s changes for the increase in thefts.” In Crook County, a if a group of teens are caught stealing cars it’s no or low bail, a slap on the wrist. Too bad when they cross into… Read more »
I have no problem with that felony murder charge. Stealing cars is a dangerous business and many times ends with a police chase and dead bystanders.
I apologize; I didn’t mean to imply I disagreed with it. I concur with you 100%, car theft is extremely serious, and it’s far beyond time to publicly show “teens” just how bad an idea it is for them to do it. I’d rather return to a system that punishes decivilized behavior very harshly. Order is fragile; those who insist on CHOOSING to create chaos are not entitled to live under the umbrella of peace/order/civilization. In fact, I’d like to see those who insist on rape, robbery or murder punished, then simply exiled, with a price, dead-or-alive, on their heads… Read more »
If Ms. Foxx knew anything about history, she would know that a descent into lawlessness is the symptom of a crumbling empire. Unfortunately for her, she went to Chicago public schools.
A book I’m reading about Marcus Aurelius (Roman Emperor about 20% into the Decline and Fall of the Western Roman Empire) informs me that, at least as far as the history historians write goes, even a fantastic ruler won’t reverse a cataclymic process that has causes sown throughout a society. Booms bake the ensuing busts into the cake. No tree grows to the sky.