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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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Got my vote!
He can run but has to win a lot of Cook/County/Chicago votes to beat a demoncrat. Remember Quinn lost 99 of the state’s counties but still beat Brady because he won Cook by 800,000 votes. Illinois is a one county empire with a dictator governor being manipulated like a puppet by the Cook/County/Chicago politicians. Good luck!
Cook County and Chicago’s votes are always tallied last, in the middle of the night, with just the right number of votes, coming from districts with exactly 0 Rauner votes, to narrowly defeat the Republican, almost every time except one, in 2014, when Rauner narrowly one. I used to believe our elections were fair, but after watching last election, I no longer believe it.
It’s been confirmed that Daley stole the election from Nixon to get Kennedy in office.
Put that in your crooked pipe Tribune Leftists!
Kennedy would have still won the election if he lost Illinois but it would have been very close.
Do you know which districts cast no votes for Rauner? It would be interesting to see if those districts always come up 0 for republican candidates.
“Asked by a reporter if he believed, as Trump has falsely stated, that the election was stolen due to fraud”
Repeatedly asking every Republican the same ‘gotcha’ question shows how insecure the Left is about Biden’s ‘Win’. The journalist had to remind the reader that Trump’s statement was false, like the department of propaganda reminding everyone that 2+2=5
Pritzker needs to go back to his mansion and install his toilets and get out of Springfield.