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In all, 11 candidates filed to run for mayor of Chicago.
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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If Lori gets re-elected it will be a sad commentary on the IQ level of Chicagoans. Have their expectations regarding lifestyle been so lowered that they will vote themselves into an irreversible situation. With the City Council, all the state legislators, and all the County folks coming from the same inbred Democrat farm system, are Chicagoans so jaded they can not hope for better? Maybe.
Here Mayor Lightfoot is a partial list of all the people who don’t like you. I have more but I did not want to hurt my back.
Chuy wins big in a run-off against a long shot candidate. Lori comes in third or fourth. Vallas comes in fourth or fifth. His appearances on conservative radio is the kiss of death for his campaign just like it was for Lopez. To a liberal, appearing conservative news is the same as marching in Charlottesville. Chicago city council goes full DSA progressive just as another Black Tuesday or something happens. Over the next four years the City Council makes decisions to drive the the tax base back into the north shore or northwest suburbs, or even, out of state. Many… Read more »