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He wrote, in part, "Mayor Johnson understands every Chicagoan in every neighborhood wants strong schools, safe streets, and the opportunity to shape our city's story – and it’s future. He knows young people deserve a choice and a chance – most importantly, to go to school thinking of their studies, not their safety. He sees the resident with limited income but unlimited potential. He believes the challenges facing Chicago are no match for the character of the people of Chicago."
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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At least Rahm stood up to the Socialists at the CTU!!
So he stood up to them and what was the result?
Rahm really showed the CTU. lol
Rahm, to his credit, delayed the inevitable, which happened today.
Is anyone still listening to this guy? Let’s not forget the damage he did to the city before he skiddadled out of town as fast as he could with a Biden appointment. Union lackey. Hates Christians, conservatives and mainstream Americans. Zero help on the pension problem. Hates cops. Plus one of the most foul mouthed and unlikable human beings anyone has ever met. So the new mayor should take advice from him?
And he’s slap in the face to Japan to boot.
in a few years from now, Rahm is going to look like honorable but flawed King Saul compared to the Moloch worshiping Brandon Johnson. Rahm was not a bad mayor, flawed, but good, preserved the status quo. Sure, some people get upset about the laquon mcdonald thing, but as I like to point out, the police force in every other civilized country on earth would have neutralized that guy long before it escalated to the situation that it did. And the police would have been commended for it. If this had happened in a suburb or in a red state,… Read more »
More platitudes, philosophy, back-patting, cheerleading, and optimism for the new mayor – what is the basis for this optimism? The new mayor is more progressive than the previous one, and what kind of job did she do? Also, the new mayor is joined at the hip to the public unions; this is one of his characteristics that is contrary to reversing the financial death spiral of the city.