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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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“Most every pre-election poll claimed that voters ranked abortion low on their priority lists. Yet, the abortion issue seemed to drive voters to the polls this year. What happened?”
BALLOT HARVESTING, DUH!!!
This is an interesting strategy for Dems. They already have the most liberal abortion laws in the country but they will probably do this anyway. From a strategy perspective, once abortion is embedded in our constitution they will no longer be able to use it as a wedge issue. Many suburban women that lean Republican in other policy issues provided votes to Dems this election. Once it’s in the constitution, those women may start voting GOP again.
Women who believe in abortion don’t vote GOP. They just don’t. At least that’s what the polls showed.
The polls show that a decent chunk of Republicans (last poll I read showed 38%) believe that abortion should be legal in all or most cases. Your ignorance on this issue won’t change the facts. Republican women that believe abortion should be allowed just haven’t had a reason to believe it was a major issue because they didn’t think it would be taken away. The SC ruling changed those feelings among a certain percentage of Republicans. Sticking your head in the sand won’t change the facts. Here is a link to the study. Post your poll that shows that women… Read more »
It’s 38% of moderate to liberal Republicans that believe that, not 60% of Republicans. I found plenty of articles, one from NPR, showing that Republican women tend to be more pro-life than Republican men, and others showing that the Republican position on abortion has gotten more pro-life over the years.
Do moderate Republicans not matter when trying to win an election? It’s called building a coalition. But hey, if you and the ILGOP don’t think 38% of the lean likely/likely Republicans matter, so be it. Just stick to your voter fraud script all while obeying the laws set by Democrats. That will show them. Also your point about women in the party being more pro-life than men doesn’t mean anything. The fact remains that a subset of the Republican Party, both men and women, don’t see the abortion issue the same way you do. You may be able to steam… Read more »
The people putting Dems in office aren’t the suburban women. They are the union workers that have the most to gain (and lose.) The vast majority of those voters are men.
That’s a valid point. They may use it next election cycle to boost voter turnout. Of course, that doesn’t help at the federal level as Illinois is already deep blue. But it might help Democrats down ballot though.
I’d be interested in the wording. Most Americans, like most Europeans, support abortion with limits. The vast majority are against total abolishment and no limits. But something like this would pass easily. I can’t imagine the usual suspects (Uihlein) would waste their money fighting this.