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In all, just two of the 21 tickets Mayor Brandon Johnson’s vehicles have amassed have been paid. State Rep. Blaine Wilhour hopes voters are keeping count. “Unfortunately a lot of times they don’t. This is the kind of stuff you’re going to continue to see until voters and citizens step up and say ‘enough is enough.’”
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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His vehicles will be impounded when pigs fly.
That’s some pretty raggedy driving there Brando. Get it together!