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Mayor Lori Lightfoot said, "Here's the thing: the vast majority of the young people that came downtown came downtown because it was great weather and an opportunity to enjoy the city. That's absolutely entirely appropriate. There were a few that came with different intentions, and they have and they will be dealt with, but I'm not going to use your language, which I think is wrong, to say that it was mayhem."
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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Why does Beetlejuice’s opinion still matter anymore?
Secondly, a few to me means you can count them on two hands. Looks to me like there were hundreds causing MAYHEM.
So sick of progs basically lying when the video evidence clearly shows they are wrong.
Sad to see Chicago turn into a prog sheeet hole like Seattle and Portland.
Da Judge
It’s a shame that 99% of the black population give the rest a bad name
You can’t think like this. You can’t lump all people together based on some immutable characteristic. That’s like saying because I’m a white guy, I’m no different than the nasty progressive Karens! Clearly, that’s untrue. The people to blame are the groups of wildlings who actually went downtown.
If that’s not mayhem, I don’t know what is.
This is just a lie. CWB even repeats the lie. “It’s a good group of kids but a handful of bad apples wrecked it for everyone.” Well, I saw those videos too, and it looks like everyone came downtown for the specific purpose of causing mayhem and chaos, and not to enjoy the warm evening. Those groups of kids, even if they are ‘mostly peaceful’ are a real deterrent to tourists and businesses. That’s why malls prohibit ‘mostly peaceful’ groups of kids.