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Comment: We wrote here about Casten's proposals, which are utterly mad.
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Audio and summary Illinois bill would override local law to allow homeless living in all public parks – Wirepoints
April 14, 2026
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If this bill passes, say goodbye to local control over all Illinois parks and expect to see open drug and alcohol use, needles, no sanitation and fire hazards, but no ordinary park users.
Mark Glennon on AM560’s Morning Answer: Chicago Fiscal Crisis Worse Than Pre-Bankruptcy Detroit, HIV Surge and Public Health Threat From Open Borders Goes Unreported
April 10, 2026
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Summary and audio linked here.
Mark Glennon on AM560’s Morning Answer: Chicago pension buyout plan mostly shifts debt rather than eliminating it, property tax surge doubles inflation over three decades
April 3, 2026
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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.
WBEZ and Chicago Sun-Times falsely blame Texas Gov. Abbott for 2020 to 2024 surge in Chicago Latino HIV, AIDS infections – Wirepoints Quickpoint
March 31, 2026
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Expect no retraction or apology. This what they do.
“Our founders did this because democracy — then and now — is a messy business. It solves for the possible, not the perfect. The Constitution is the thing that emerged to get 13 colonies to agree to cede power to a central, United States government. And so we have operated over these past 233 years with counter-majoritarian biases baked into our institutions.” So Sean admits “then and now”, it’s still a messy business. He also acknowledges that colonies needed to be coaxed to give up any power to a central government. However, he mentions nothing that shows states are more… Read more »
A broken clock is right twice a day
Let me fix that for you Sean – First, I’ve introduced a constitutional amendment to add 12 national at-large senators, to be elected via New York, Chicago and Los Angeles.
He forgot to add a few more supreme court justices in his bill.
Can’t stand this guy and now his wife is running for the school board, I’m guessing she’ll be worse than him.
We’re not a Democracy, Mr. Casten, we’re a Republic, remember, you took an oath to it.
Our founding fathers warned about Democracy.
The liberal elite have an incredibly twisted view of the world. Sean is an excellent example. If Republicans would field a pro choice female against this arrogant piece of waste they’d send him packing.
The ballots that elect Casten are straight ticket Democrat. Only a tiny number of female suburban voters would cross over the aisle and vote Republican for his opponent but Democrat for the rest of the races. I don’t think it would be enough to make any difference. The key to beating this guy is to increase Republican turnout in his district during a mid-term year. 183,891 people showed up for Jeanne Ives in 2020 in that district vs. Casten while a measly Republican 126,351 voters showed up to vote for Pekau in 2022 midterm. 57,540 fewer Republican voters showed up… Read more »
Yes, but how many Republican women sit it out because they won’t vote against a women’s right to choose? The Democrats pared losses in the US House due to abortion in the recent midterms. I hate abortion and the flippant manner in which it is treated, but it will destroy Republican chances to save the country. Revisit it down the road where it can at least be controlled.
I don’t know, i just disagree, I don’t think the data supports that Republican women are crossing the aisle to vote for Democrats because of abortion. Women who tend to be rabidly pro-abortion also tend to be hard core Democrats. Sure there are pro-abortion Republicans but they don’t tend to be single issue voters. Democrats pared their losses in blue states with ballot harvesting and lax voting. Democrats lost the popular vote this time around, and didn’t have the votes in red states to elect democrat reps, because most of their votes are concentrated already in heavily blue areas. After… Read more »