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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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I get that groups like Safe Suburbs and Awake started to fight the insanity emerging at the local level. But for some reason, their core message either got diluted or branched off into a different flavor of crazy. It also didn’t help that once you were endorsed by Awake, the wackos labeled you an extremist. Awake became a scarlet letter for candidates, not a brand that helped them cross the finish line. The crazy aunt on Facebook doesn’t fly. Conservative groups need a sanity check. There is a majority audience for regular folks with reasonable without the identity baggage. Conservatives… Read more »
Someone needs to track the money contributed by both the Dem Party of IL and teacher unions in these local school board elections. Because I have a feeling these so-called “extremist” candidates got swamped by deep-pocketed interests.
On the flip side, if groups like Awake are going to back candidates, they’re going to have to spend big because of not just the competition, but their brand is tainted.
Now you’re just repeating Democrat talking points, like Awake’s brand is tainted. Nonsense. The ‘extremists’ want pron out of kids schools and no CRT. It’s like turning back the clock to 2015 and doing what every other country on earth does. The 1776 Project, which focuses on local elections, did quite well in Wisconsin, with IIRC more than half of their candidates willing local office. This has nothing to do with Awake, a group most people haven’t heard of. Turnout was low in IL because people don’t care. It was only 20% in my community. Normie voters are demoralized or… Read more »