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As Illinois Attorney General in 1982, Fahner was at a Republican election event at the Pheasant Run Resort when an aide came out from behind a big blue velvet curtain and tugged at his jacket. People were being poisoned and dying in multiple places around the Chicago area—and it turned out that what they had in common was that they had all taken Tylenol.
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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Fahner hung out to dry because some nut decided to poison people around Halloween. Yet a smarmy, smiling “ I know nothing “ Mayorkas blithely walks away from a drugs crisis caused by his administration’s border policies. Strange times of non- accountability we live in.