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"Don’t be sad for Lightfoot. She has been quite cruel, to her city, to her demoralized police force and their families, and just about everyone else who dares question her reign. But then, baseball can be cruel, too. The baseball gods are often cruel, as every fan knows."
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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She thinks people who criticize from their keyboards are anonymous cowards who are afraid to confront her! Yea, OK Lori we’ll have that discussion as you trundle from your armored caravan into your bunker! How about hosting a town hall meeting? But, you don’t have the privilege of salting the audience. Ch7 can fall over themselves from the men’s room hallway.It’s getting pretty bad when the Democrats turn to public back stabbing. Huh? Covid protocols? Nay, she gotta be funnin!
I would love for Pritzker, the follow the leader so called governor to have town hall meetings throughout Illinois unrehearsed, that man would fail miserably and the truth about his nonexistent leadership skills would be revealed and maybe, just maybe the people of Illinois would realize that NO he is not saving your life, he is not GOD, so please wake everyone.
Porky, Lori and the multitude blowhards are terrified of the citizens. Old man Daley would regularly walk the streets each morning from church to city hall. I’m sure he had ample muscle on the stroll, but he’d stop and talk to people! Porky and Lori are so wildly popular they’d soon be surrounded by a shrieking mob.