What Pritzker didn’t say was his own budget included misleading claims about state pension obligations being “fully funded.” Such statements may well violate a “Cease and Desist” order issued in 2013 by the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) due to Illinois’s history of chronic misrepresentations of its massive unfunded state pension obligations.
At this point, it’s too easy to dismiss Pritzger as the village idiot sitting on a public bench babbling to whomever is within earshot. Too bad he is the governor and his mindless, childish ramblings merit news coverage.
A largely unasked question is becoming glaring: Is Illinois doing all it should to use artificial intelligence to make government cost less and work better? So far, the evidence says no.
At this point, it’s too easy to dismiss Pritzger as the village idiot sitting on a public bench babbling to whomever is within earshot. Too bad he is the governor and his mindless, childish ramblings merit news coverage.