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He’s the second GOP candidate for governor to sit for Capitol News Illinois’ election podcast series. Capitol News Illinois will publish a feature and full interview with each of the four GOP governor candidates in the coming weeks.
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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Ted for Governor
Go Darren!
Go Away Darren!!!
You gotta say he’s at least Darren to be da man!
I can’t imagine voting for young drew carey
Bailey is broke.
PIGSTER will pick his opposition like last time .
Ted is the man, Bailey had his chance and lost.
Who’s in the mood to listen to this op that handed Pritzker re-election last time? Not me.