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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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Article coming from a Left wing, communist, socialist Rag doesn’t surprise.
Far right, to the left wing communists describes, any politician who wants, accountability, honesty, hard work, not sexualizing and indoctrinating children to a Marxist manifesto and wanting to make Illinois Great again, is a Far Right Winger.
I guess we need to applaud Trump’s bravery in endorsing a candidate with a 15 point lead 3 days before the election. If he liked him so much, where was Trump months ago when Irving was getting tens of millions of dollars donated to his campaign and many figured he would win the republican nomination?
In Trump’s defense, he’s been hinting at the endorsement for some time, and it was made at the same time with Miller at that rally due to timing. Bailey’s lead only came about in the last few weeks, it was all Irvin up until recently.
Republican voters are only given the option of low tier crooks and podium pounders or nobody with common sense wants to clean up the mess.
We aren’t given anything. We are the Republican party and too few of us – the good candidates – want to run against a billionaire who committed $300,000,000 of his own money last election in a state dominated by insane progressives. Especially after witnessing the #resistance the IL legislature gave the previous Republican Gov.
In political terms, IL is called a lost cause.
It’s like the Democrat Party in Idaho. There’s no hope. It’s not even worth trying.
All true. Also the Democraps will just shut down the state like they did to Rauner. I hope Bailey does get elected just to see the melt down
If you vote for mediocrity, that is what you will get.
Getting Trump’s endorsement doesn’t make you far right.
The left will engage in election election fraud no matter who runs on the R ticket.
None of the above should be news to anyone.
Years ago, showing my age here, there was a saying that went like “downstate can not elect a Governor but it sure can keep one from being elected.” I doubt that the possibility of that is possible today but one can try as downstate voters sit out elections perhaps by becoming frustrated by never accomplishing anything at the polls. We can hope but my thoughts are…it’s not in the cards.
Sure Bailey will only get about 40% of the vote in the general but we will send a message to the party elites that Rinos don’t matter and MAGA all the way. I know that means JB will be able to mandate masks again but it’s a small price to pay to own the libs and rinos.
Owning libs is all that matters.
Unless downstate voters collectively pull a November surprise causing one million+ unpostmarked Bailey ballots to magically show up at the County Clerk’s office 14 days after the election.
The IL Democrat Party is in court, right now, fighting for the right of county clerks to count unpostmarked ballots up to14 days after the election.
What is good for the goose is good for the gander!
November 2022 turnout will be 185%! Amazing!
What is your sarcasm referring to?
Downstate needs to find more votes than Cook County to give Bailey to win. It’s possible. The law allows unpostmarked ballots arriving at the Clerk’s Office14 days after the election to be counted. And if JB objects, well, there’s no evidence of fraud, right?
I’m obviously being sarcastic, but JB managed to find 700,000 new voters to vote for him that hadn’t voted in a mid-term since 1982. Maybe downstate’s turnout the vote effort can do that this time around too.
For sure. You know there are a lot of farms that have living quarters for all the farm hands. Oh where are they now? They went south for winter but rest assured they were here at election time and mailed their ballot right there at that post box. If they had a voter id you’d know that but alas, that would be voter suppression now wouldn’t it.
Apparently we didn’t learn from Roy Moore.
The further right you push the nominee the smaller the vote share you get.
But hey enjoy 4 more years of Pritzker. It’s what Illinois deserves.
But we get to vote for a Real ™ conservative approved by Dan Proft.