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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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Kwame makes me miss a Madigan.
Raoul is legally illiterate. His only talent is being a paid flack for the crooked and corrupt red light camera racketeers.
https://chicago.suntimes.com/2018/3/9/18367837/illinois-deserves-a-conflict-free-attorney-general
Does anyone really take this seriously as even the vaguest attempt at a legal analysis. It is at odds with the arguments of Pritzker. Barely mentions state law as it relates to JCAR, Executive Orders or the Illinois Constitution. Cites no credible precedent one way or the other. And is obviously issued by a partisan toady who happens to have a legal job in the state. No wonder citizens don’t have any trust in their government.
This statement is very weird. Read the below from Raoul’s statement. Isn’t he claiming what Pritzker, astonishingly, claimed on Wednesday, which is that the statewide school mask mandate remains in place because Pritzker’s executive order was not invalidated? As I explained earlier, the executive order was no good because the agency rules were voided, which I think is clear from both the lower and appellate court orders. Raoul seems to be saying he is not even appealing anything about the executive order because it is untouched, and is only appealing matters related to the temporary restraining order which applies only… Read more »
Yes, and they’ll keep saying that the mandates apply to everyone except the named plaintiffs, although few people actually believe this. Judge Grischow has contempt motions pending right now because the various districts have adopted this utterly ridiculous position. The TRO and the loss in the appellate court has turned him into the fat man bad bloviating about nothing, screaming into the wind that no one will follow his executive orders anymore. Kinda reminds me of Trump’s final two weeks in office, after the mostly peaceful January 6 protest, when he was effectively deposed and people other than Trump were… Read more »