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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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Not likely that the 34% who voted for Vallis are going to change their minds and vote for Johnson in April, nor that many of the 20% who voted for Johnson & the Marxist/progressive/socialist CTU are going to be persuaded by Vallas to drop Johnson. Of the 7 remaining candidates and their 45% of the vote, not one mirrored Johnson’s fewer-police-n-more social-workers & higher taxes platform. People who voted for those candidates could have picked Johnson this time round, but they didn’t. CTU has put themselves in the position of submitting their ideology to a public referendum via a mayoral… Read more »
I can’t wait to see what happens to the NASCAR race Lori pushed for this summer. Many of the minority aldermen said they didn’t like it and there is nothing in it for their wards. I would not want to be the NASCAR lady trying to get this event done.
CTU will steal the election – last liar standing wins.
I’d wish Chicago good luck, but they wouldn’t know what to do with it.
His campaign shirts have already been printed up.
Lets Go Brandon!
Well WP Readers the choice could not be more stark.
Yes. Union police officers vs Union school teachers. Just kidding. I have pointed out many times before that we are getting the government we deserve based on how we collectively vote. Well this election outcome will have nothing to do with newspaper coverage or gerrymandering. As you’ve noted, the choice is extremely clear. More socialism, more spending on education, more spending on a laundry list of progressive causes and more taxes along with less money for police and no plan to address crime. vs. Moderate fiscal awareness (not even fiscal discipline), promise to support police and get crime under control… Read more »
Gosh, I wonder where the voters got such crazy ideas.
This gives a whole new meaning to “Let’s Go Brandon!”. Sadly, the majority of voters want a totalitarian communist government and Vallas will lose the runoff.
Also, watch as Johnson/CTU campaign becomes epicenter of national progressive movement with big $bucks$ flowing in from all over, from DC to Hollywood, from all kinds of folks who don’t live here (unlike me). But I guess Vallas only recently move back here as well….since the end of the old machine/ Daleys days, pols (press and academia) moving here to get into politics and impose a lot of progressive bs on everyday folks that don’t work is a big part of Chicagos problem
Describing how Chicago “works” now illuminates a horrifying list of problems that every Chicagoan from Marxist to MAGA agrees must be fixed.
Criminality and crime, poverty, infrastructure decay, failed-n-failing schools, crushing taxes, massive public debt, unemployment and contracting employment opportunities, declining population.
Seems like that’s just about as bad as you can get for a starting point.
We’ll see what a majority of the people who live there vote for in April.
No matter who wins they have got a real mess on their hands. I know I have become quite pessimistic over the whole situation over the years and I hope I am wrong for everyone’s sake.
I live downstate so while not directly involved live in an area heavily affected by Chicaho politics.
Good luck to the both of them!
Brandon Johnson will win. The new Chicago city flag will be the hammer and sickle. Chicago black voters will vote black just because. Vallas, no, no White boy. Get ready for the giant flush as Chicago goes down the toilet.
I’m looking forward to watching Johnson fleshing-out his CTU Marxist/Socialist/Progressive social workers-n-taxes-instead-of-police & jail platform between now and April.
Later on Larry! FLUSHY!!
Im thinking who can land the Hispanic vote it could be huge. They don’t buy into all the crazy progressive /ctu stuff.
It’s not about politics anymore. It’s about race filtered through law and order vs progressive politics.
And the senior citizen (me) vote
“As of 7:45 p.m., The Associated Press reported Paul Vallas, former Chicago Public Schools CEO backed by police union has advanced to the runoff election for Chicago mayor. His opponent will be Brandon Johnson, a Cook County commissioner endorsed by the Chicago Teachers Union.”
https://www.fox32chicago.com/election/chicago-mayoral-election-results
“Paul Vallas, Brandon Johnson to clash in Chicago mayoral runoff; Lightfoot ousted”
https://www.fox32chicago.com/election/paul-vallas-brandon-johnson-runoff-election