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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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Lori, the reason people don’t like you is because you’re an asshole!
Bravo bravo
I don’t know if Ms. Lightfoot’s assertion is true, but I do know that unless properly lighted, photos/videos of blacks can be very unflattering.
Don’t take my word for it – just watch TV and you see the difference between proper lighting of blacks (Death in Paradise and Blackish do a nice job) and almost any other shows. Matter of fact, an episode of Blackish addressed the lighting problem.
So, Ms. Mayor, you may be off the mark on this.
Maybe it’s the Super PACs way of telling her to lighten up.
Great point. But let’s assume that they did make her look darker in this ad on purpose, why does this upset Lightfoot? Is she biased against people with darker skin tones? Why does she find this insulting?
All valid – as odd as it may seem, in the black community there is discrimination based on skin color.
Apparently Ms. Lightfoot fears being a victim of that discrimination.
No doubt the claim that an “Original video” captures the real real image of someone will empower one’s conformation bias. But if pictures are more real than reality, then we must accuse the Sun Times of similar racial contrivances and dog whistles.
https://chicago.suntimes.com/city-hall/2022/8/23/23318887/christopher-columbus-statues-return-security-lightfoot-mayor-joint-civic-committee-italian-americans
The mayor ought to worry about the substance of the commercial and not the rendering of her image. The former reveals the absolute threat of the city’s decline. The latter points us to the FACT that Chicago continues to elect the wrong people to lead the city.
Leftist playbook:
When rightfully questioned or attacked – D E F L E C T A T T E T I O N to an emotions driven non-issue…
Well at least they didn’t air brush in the big male appendage she claims to have!
Clutching the pearls over imaginary racism is the only defense that Democrats can manage — when confronted with the actual results of their failed crime policies,
Message to Lightfoot:
Nobody cares about your skin color, people just see incompetence when they look at you.
The majority of the country has moved on from race BS, you live in a bubble so you don’t realize it.
Next, JB is going to say that Republicans ads make him look too fat!
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