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"Illinois Gov. J.B. Pritzker campaigned in 2018 against partisan gerrymandering, saying he would 'pledge to veto' any 2022 map drawn by the state Legislature.... Gov. Pritzker now says he’ll be satisfied with a map drawn by his legislative allies. In a recent press conference he walked back his veto pledge and scored Republicans for objecting to Democratic-controlled redistricting."
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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He went to the Fauci school of flip flopping.
What a crock. One day, some how and some way, like D said, they will be out of power entirely.
Watch Arizona. The Grim Reaper.
Crime never pays.
Article fails to mention that Trump got 40% of IL’s 2020 vote but Republicans have only 27% of the house seats and roughly 30% of the legislature. The gerrymandering is really, *essential*, to maintaining power in a one-party state. Without gerrymandering, they’re not even a supermajority, and some off-years, they may even go out of power entirely.