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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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This tool has the right to free speech and is protected from government prosecution. However, other fall out such as his thoughts not matching his employers standards has penalties. Apparently, the City of Chicago is OK with this type of person and their hateful thoughts serving the public. Pathetic. Vote them out.
Free Speech should be preserved at all costs.
There’s a thin line and celebrating an assassination crosses that line and goes from free speech to incitement.
Publishing kill lists is not protected speech.
go take a look at what is being printed at Bluesky site.
But Pritzker can keep spewing his dangerous rhetoric
Hold the phone. That would be a fireable offense anywhere else. Our racist Mayor Pinhead is allowing this to happen ? Vote him out
Jackie Childs wanna be Adkins is a perfect example of the type of people America’s Worst Mayor is and surrounds himself with.