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Foxx has not endorsed either candidate — retired Justice Eileen O’Neill Burke or Clayton Harris III— but Harris has been endorsed by the Cook County Democratic Party and Foxx’s political mentor, County Board President Toni Preckwinkle.
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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You all need to work on your attitudes. This is a different environment. Nobody likes the status quo’s candidate. Let’s working on giving all of them the middle finger. Nikki Halley recently lost to ‘none of these candidates’ and I can’t think of anything more poetic.
https://www.reuters.com/world/us/nikki-haley-set-win-nevada-republican-primary-victory-will-be-hollow-2024-02-06/
There hasn’t been an upset in Cook County politics in 50 years. The machine’s favored candidate always wins, by hook or by crook. Burke is naive to believe that she has any chance of winning. It’s noble of her I guess to keep up the charade. She should just concede today and give the job to Harris. Even Todd Stroger won in 2006 even though no one liked him and he was the son of the former Board President and there were other good candidates. But he still won. Again, there are no upsets in Cook County. The winner of… Read more »
Burke has 773 followers on X and Clayton Harris III has 171. I know X isn’t the real world but it does show there is zero excitement to replace Kim Foxx. ‘High’ turnout in high crime precincts in the city and south suburbs will decide this race, as if it the outcome wasn’t already predetermined.
I really hope I’m wrong about this; and I will celebrate if I am.
Why not use some of your free time to get the word out?
Wasn’t Todd “ installed “ into the office before his fathers corpse was cold and summarily voted out at the first chance?
If Burke wins Taxwinkle will torpedo her.
I have always been intrigued all my life why endorsements like this are so important because, to me, a voter that relies on endorsements quite often votes a party line rather than making individual selections based upon their own judgement.
Taxwinkle has made her choice. No need for a sham election. Move on .