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"Since taking office, Gov. J.B. Pritzker has been gradually and quietly transforming the Illinois Prisoner Review Board, which is responsible for deciding whether to release some of the state’s most violent criminals from prison early, to fit his “weak on crime” agenda. That is, until now. Senate Democrats who covered for him for over a year finally had enough of his dangerous gamesmanship."
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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Everything a Leftist like Pritzker touches turns to shite!
Yes, the point for leftists is to turn everything into shite. The offer a solution to a working system, and then they break it.
Everything King Pritzker touches is a mess. Why should the PRB be any different.
Why hasn’t there been an ILPRB annual report issued since JB took office in 2019????
These reports are truly missing on the website. How many early releases were there during the pandemic in 2020??? What are they hiding?
The prison Pop. has drastically declined.
I heard he pushed hard for the release of 3 toilet thieves. He said he understood their crime and felt compassion for their behavior