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"It’s important to understand where he came from, because the mayoralty hasn’t changed him. He’s changed the mayoralty. (Brandon) Johnson is not a politician. He’s still that hip young teacher and radical union organizer, and he’s running the city with that point of view."
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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On a smaller scale, it was the same thing with Ralph Martire on the River Forest school district and then again on the Oak Park high school board. The union man fox in the hen house.
Voters were continually told of BJ’s connection to CTU and the likely repercussions yet elected him anyway. Blame the voters who elected him and the voters who didn’t show up. Name one good aspect of Johnson’s term because all other signs are pointing down for Chicago. Ex-Chicagoan watching from afar with anger and disgust.
He’s still that hip young teacher and radical union organizer, and he’s
runningruining the city with that point of view.Conehead the Mayorbarian thinks he can swipe a credit card to pay the existing debt on that same card.
So…it’s cool and hip to be an idiot.