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In Florida, Mr. Pritzker said Democrats like himself, Mr. Newsom, Ms. Harris and Mr. Biden were all on the same page. “Our Democratic voices are more powerful together—one doesn’t diminish another,” he said, according to a copy of his remarks reviewed by The Wall Street Journal.
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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The media has already decided on the Democratic Nominee in 2024 its Fair Haired Hollywood Pretty Boy Newson
This duo is no more comical than Biden & Harris. Democracy has a fundamental problem which is wilful ignorance of voters educated in our schools and then cultivated by our media.
JBP proudly out California-ing California…
These 2 should so a movie together — call if “Failing Up”
You gotta love that pin JB has on. “Be like Illinois” it says. Do his advisors think that will work?
I’m guessing it’s the secret handshake for his fellow travelers.
If he doesn’t think that the rest of the country knows how bad Illinois is, he’s in for a rude surprise. I’ve written before that everyone I meet in my semi-rural county in NC knows what’s going on in Illinois. I was once introduced to a local as having moved here from Chicago, and his first question was “Why’s everyone shootin’ each other up there”?
One man’s garbage is another man’s treasure. IL is a progressive utopia heralded as an example of far left activism. We have it all – nearly ever vice is legalized, Moloch is pleased, every industry is being destroyed, and criminals are being set free. What’s not to love?
His arrogance knows no limits.
Yes, because IL is a far left utopia for the subset of Democrats that vote progressive every primary season. The only complaint progressives have about IL is that the progressive revolution hasn’t gone far enough. Well, I suppose they have one other complaint – the state hasn’t yet purged itself of MAGA conservatives – but they’re at least making good progress.