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Lightfoot said she was prepared to walk out as Trump scorched “radical politicians” who provide sanctuary for “criminal illegal aliens” if he mentioned Chicago; instead he slammed New York and California.While Trump was met with a rousing welcome from Republicans, Speaker Nancy Pelosi tore up his speech when he was done.
The speech, Lightfoot said, “makes me more resolved to do everything I can to change the results in November.”
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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Can’t wait until the law passes where citizens of the United States can sue municipalities and states that become “sanctuary” for criminal illegal aliens.
If you live in Chicago and regularily read Wirepoints and the coments, I apologize now for my future comments that wish doom upon this city. Chicago is the perfect example of liberal, progresive and socialist ideology slowly destroying its core…the taxpayer. It’s beautiful on the surface with it’s lakefront, skyscrapers, and parks, however if you look deeper the ugly debt, poor schools, and subpar everything else is easily seen. The voters choose to ignore the ugly. This city therefore deserves it’s fate.
I’m not a religious guy but it’s Sodom and gommorah there.
such is a one termer who gives a rat a$$ what mr lightfoot says
this isn’t very inclusive or woke of her
Wonder what Ms Lightfoot will say when Federal funding is finally eliminated for Sanctuary Cities, Counties and States. Chicago will suffer a triple whammy. Will she then allow Chicago Police to cooperate with ICE or will she defiantly resist and virtue signal at the expense of the taxpayers?
She’ll resist. TDS is incurable.
Deep blue mayor of deep blue city vows to change election results in deep blue state. Someone tell her Illinois doesn’t earn more electoral votes by going a deeper shade a blue.
It’s her own party, not Trump, that is the source of all her city’s problems. Democrats.
This. Nothing but empty bluster from Lightfoot. Whichever Dem candidate makes it onto the ballot is who will win Illinois. So really all she’s done is publically admit that she supports election tampering.
Maybe, maybe. The neverSanders contingency seems to be growing every day. Most centrists democrats – the vast majority of the Democrat party – are strongly opposed to Sanders. This is nothing new and no secret – centrist Hillary rigged it against Sanders in 2016. Heck, even Obama has made it clear that American needs some tweaking around the edges, not a full scale communist revolution. They can stomach all the other candidates, even Warren, but Sanders is a candidate too far. I personally know Democrats on the neverSanders train and they’re freaking out. Most neverTrumpers, a small contingent, came around… Read more »
I think the Iowa debacle is telling of what’s to come. They can blame “coding errors” all they want, but I’m getting some serious 2016 flashbacks here. You’re correct, though: Trump will steamroll whomever has the misfortune of facing him come November.
Lori, you suck! No one cares what you think.