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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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Well, he’s finally holding up his promise of not signing off on an Even More Gerrymandered map after signing off on the one that exists now, that he said he wouldn’t in the first place. :-/
Of course he doesn’t want it. Redistricting may put his fat ass on the unemployment line.
JN neglects to mention that his fellow Marxists are the ones that want to “ re- imagine “ America , want to hand illegals everything on a platter, let their criminal brethren run wild, talk youngsters into gender reassignment surgery, continue the DEI gravy train and all the other garbage most places are shaking off now that Joe’s Autopen nightmare is finally over.
Il should be redirected based on population, not race or politics. The districts should not look like a spider or a half moon. The districts should look more like squares. But Pritzker and the Dems won’t stand for that.
In other words, we’ve already wrung all the blood out of the turnip.
Spot on. JB knows that IL redistricting – amid massive multi decade decline of formerly reliable black and hispanic’s voting for Democrats – could result in Democrat losses. So JB hides behind ‘Democracy”. That’s how you can tell that he is lying (besides that his lips are movin
There’s no meat left on that bone.