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The emails ranged from generic fundraising appeals to invitations to private town halls and requests for help gathering petitions, newly obtained records show.
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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I recoil every time I see that photo. Beetlejuice! Beeltjuice! Beetlejuice!
Why bother with an election? The voting machines have already been programmed to give her the winning number of votes.
Probably violates a number of laws — add them to the many that are routinely ignored and neve enforced against Illinois Dems.
Ruh Roh. Lori’s revealed one of the hidden workings of the modern public employee union army.
For the Dem power structure make this public, the knives must really be out now.
Putting an avowed communist like the crooked Garcia in charge of Chicago will be less than helpful for the city.
Looks like Lori’s campaign is circling the drain? So it looks like… now its going to be a runoff between Vallas vrs Chuy or Johnson, or Vallas vrs the machine, yikes. as a Chicago resident I would have preferred Vallas vrs Lightweight.
Selling out to thug public sector votes. Give them what ever they want at the taxpayers expense for a vote. Sell out the taxpayer every time.
Oh come on… she’s just trying to help kids with their homework. Nothing going on here!