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Comment: It's quite possible US House control could turn on this race, and she's a fraud.
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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…and she won office. Apparently it is ok for our elected officials to violate voting laws. One more example of corrupt local government. Shameful.
The ever gutless eff Sessions should go after her, as he should have gone after Rahm for the same type of shenanigans…but of course Sessions won’t, apparently his cojones atrophied with age.