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"While Ocasio-Cortez likely would not have to worry about competing against a fellow democratic socialist, she may have to worry about getting crowded out of the progressive populist lane, and by a billionaire no less: Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker. Unlike Newsom and some other Democrats, Pritzker hasn’t tried to recalibrate at all on immigration or trangender issues."
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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In the popularity contest politics has devolved into, AOC can count on dropping some hip schtick, do some coding while pandering to the room and stress the socialism her constituents ate up when she chased Amazon out of her district as her crowd swooned at the notion of getting a job.
The only people that think JB will win are the ones who are clueless about how bad IL has become economically. Imagine the damage he could do with trillions of dollars in federal freebies.
Run Putzger Run. We’ll be rid of him and then get to laugh as he gets humiliated in the elections