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The Flossmoor lawmaker, who also serves as the Thornton Township supervisor, had used the Friends of Napoleon Harris campaign fund for clothing purchases from upscale department stores, along with payments to a Mercedes-Benz dealership in Orland Park and a pizza restaurant he ran in south suburban Harvey.
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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Senator Napoleon Harris III, also the Thornton Township Supervisor, (a Political-Double-Dipper) makes $202,950 as “Supervisor” and $89,250 as Senator, a total of $292,200 plus insurance, retirement and other benefits!!! Members of the General Assembly, (Law-Makers) if you don’t take action in Springfield to eliminate the of holding multiple elected office, GET OUT OF TOWN!
That’s not you-know-who smiling in the background, is it?
Well on the destructive path of South Africa and Zimbabwe. Pretend the public funds are your personal bank when you are in power. And the ignorant clowns will vote to maintain the status quo.
Extremely insufficient, yet Cook County typical