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After recently telling fellow trustees to 'shut up,' Trustee Susan Buchanan's comments spread on social media. She also told Mayor Anan Abu-Taleb, a native of Palestine, that his "skin was white enough," when he tried to intervene.
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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Her comments were disgusting. But she deserves a taste of the same vitriol the left gives the right. Hopefully she walks away from this a little less progressive and a little less racist.
Except we all know she’ll likely just double down and play the victim that much harder. ‘Tis right out of the progressive playbook, after all.