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If this bill passes, say goodbye to local control over all Illinois parks and expect to see open drug and alcohol use, needles, no sanitation and fire hazards, but no ordinary park users.
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.
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IL is not a fare speech state. People only have free speech if that speech is pro left, socialist or Democrat. Otherwise,your free speech will be suppressed and punished.
I hope she wins her case; free speech is necessary for a free society.
Don’t ever, ever criticize BLM. Just. Don’t.
This case is a big deal. She actually told the truth– BLM is a big shakedown scheme, run by proven fraudsters, with millions of dollars misspent. Hope the US SCT does the right thing here and doesn’t let the politically motivated and Woke administrators block her freedom to tell it like it is.
Thumbs down from the BLM brass that bought mansions in the Topanga Canyon area because it is overwhelmingly white and therefore safe. Fact.