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Hardly three weeks remain before balloting ends in a hotly contested Democratic primary to replace Cook County State’s Attorney Kim Foxx, who is not seeking a third term. Here, interviewers required a “yes” or “no” from Eileen O’Neill Burke and Clayton Harris III on topics ranging from gun possession to prosecutor unionization.
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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It is amazing that with the few questions these tools were asked, that one of them HAD to be how they would prosecute Police officers. Of all the crime going on in Chicago and the country right now….how they would prosecute Police is a key factor? Good God. So ridiculous. .
The chances of there being an upset in this race are so slim.
Questions;
Are you black……….Yes
Are you a democrat……Yes
You win!
Are you or have you ever been a member of the progressive/ Dem/ socialist/ Workers People Union Party.. Yes.
Good. Your new office awaits.
In response to a question about illegal possession of a firearm, Burke talked about young people who “find themselves in possession of a firearm”. This is how progressives think.
Two phonies. Didn’t answer some questions and gave self-contradictory answers on others. Looking for a new gig sucking on the government teat.
5 key questions
1. Kiss Taxwinkles ass
2. Kiss Pritzker ass
3 Kiss judge Evans ass
4. Kiss Brandon’s ass
5. Kiss Raouls ass
No particular order.
LOVE YOUR SENSE OF HUMOR………TOTALY AGREE
Kiss the criminals ass