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Having launched his civil rights career 57 years ago, Rev. Jesse Jackson is stepping down as president of the Rainbow PUSH Coalition and “there will be a new president soon.” Jackson was first diagnosed with Parkinson’s disease in 2017.
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 the press conference double J announced that he has stolen/scammed enough millions and would pass the torch so someone else could get wealthy by being a con man.
Might Rainbow PUSH be the original dark money group? Has anyone been able to dig into their financials? It’s where extortion money goes to die.
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