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Cassandra Greer-Lee, one of dozens of protesters who addressed the crowd, said the Chicago Police Department’s intimidation tactics wouldn’t deter her. “I will exercise my right,” she told the crowd. “You will not move me. You will not intimidate me. It doesn’t matter.”
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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These people live in a fantasy land. The police are hamstrung and not allowed to do their job so her claim they are trying to intimidate her is childish and stupid. People afraid of the police don’t get a foot from their face and scream obscenities at them.
Well with any luck, Trump will get re-elected in a landslide victory that trashes every Democratic candidate on the ballot as well. Then maybe the Sun-Times will get its wish for “Change”