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Handwriting the lawsuit in a notebook, government employee Cata Truss argued the Amundsen Park field house was 'designated for recreational use within the community' and nothing else. Truss was also angry Mayor Brandon Johnson's government shelled out more than $250 million caring for migrants when her community is in poverty. "There's a humanitarian crisis in the black community. But every time we have a need in our community, we're told that there are no funds. There's no money for us," she said.
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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Curious that this story appears in the Daily Mail today,when apparently the City’s plan to put refugees in Amundsen Park was abandoned (presumably because of the suits) in December. (“A proposal for a migrant shelter in a parking lot in Amundsen Park was also scrapped last month, after residents voiced concerns.” says the Tribune. The Sun Times says nothing I could find.)
It is of course concerning that we need to rely on the Daily Mail for information about what’s going on in Chicago.
As their all-time favorite, Barack Obama famously said: Elections have consequences.
Welcome to the modern version of the back of the bus…..
If they had any common sense they would realize that the Democrats don’t care about them and haven’t for decades. The entire agenda of the democratic political machine is to keep black voters on the plantation.
Black voters *love* abortion, reparations, affirmative action and expanded welfare benefits. Blacks get these things from Democrats; they would never get them from Republicans. Our current Democrat leaders – in the most cynical Realpolitik take yet of this century coming from the Biden junta – have collectively decided that blacks are going to ‘take one for the team’. Democrats need to turn several purple states blue so they can control the federal government for the next 100 years. And the Blacks are going to be the voter base that bears the brunt of 10,000,000 illegal immigrants moving into their communities… Read more »
Well stated Debtsor. Dems seem to always find enough ballots to win even if they’ve got to “count” for several months after an election.
Excellent post.
RINOs are doing the same and Republicans need to realize that they’re also being taken for a ride! On the RINO side, we’ve got useful idiots that spend all day complaining on line and do nothing, we’ve got people that parrot Democrat talking points, websites that only post stories in outrage of Rachel Madoff’s positions, etc. debtsor here is famous for consistently reminding folks they don’t have a chance and focusing on the worst parts of our party.
We do have a chance. Because of federalism, each state is its own little laboratory of Democracy and amazing things happen. There are tens if not a hundred million voters or more that live in Red states where amazing Red state things are happening. Heck, just today, because of federalism, TX Gov. Abbott just has physically locked out the federal government from a border crossing and is openly defying a 5-4 court ruling. He’s telling the supreme court to come enforce their order. Red states across the country are balancing budgets, growing their economies, banning abortions, adopting school choice, giving… Read more »