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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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Don’t bother with the Illinois Supreme Court the last two were purchased by the governor for 1 million a piece and also should be removed from offices. 1,000’s of complaints to the Illinois Judiciary Board all have been ignored with boilerplate responses.
” The crime waves sweeping the country and the serial prosecutions of former President Trump and other conservative are not separate events, but the common outcome of
A FUNDAMENTAL TRANSFORMATION OF THE JUDICIAL SYSTEM FROM PUNISHING CRIME TO PUNISHING POLITICAL OPPOSITION…”
read this excellent essay by Daniel Greenfield at Sultan Knish- titled
“Progressive Prosecutors Build a New Kind of Police State”
Read Bilyk’s article on this, too, (https://cookcountyrecord.com/stories/655436446-cook-county-judge-says-colorado-got-it-right-says-trump-should-be-kicked-off-il-ballot) which is great. Among other things it says this: Indeed, the Cook County Democratic Party has asked all candidates for judges to sign a partisan pledge, promising, among other items, to advance “the ideals and principles of the Democratic Party.” It is not known if Porter has signed such a pledge. Porter currently serves in the County Division of the Cook County Circuit Court, where she regularly hears tax and property cases. The County Division also handles election-related cases and appeals. Before being assigned to the County Division following her election in 2022,… Read more »
Voting Rights are Civil Rights, she should be disbarred.
Her resemblance to Leticia James is uncanny
With no Trump on the Cook County ballot, this could lead would-be Republican primary voters to pull a Dem ballot instead, which could be quite detrimental to Clayton Harris’ campaign.
Yes let’s start pulling democraps from the ballot. Fight fire with fire. Repubs are too weak and fable
Sounds like another corrupt democrat to me!
This judge is an activist judge. She knows this decision will not survive nor has much merit. She is part of the DNC network and is executing the plan. The propose here is to put more financial burden on Trump campaign(appeals cost a lot), try to break Trumps momentum and to distract from Biden weaknesses and failures.
Who is Tracie Porter? Another Soros funded a… it would seem.
U mean a soros whore
Another Andy Warhol-defined “15 minutes of fame” person, seeking public affirmation of her correct progressive political viewpoints, acting on behalf of her court-appointment sponsor, the Cook County Democratic Party Machine. You go girl! Smile for the camera! The View is on line 2! And her resume is decidedly weak. Cornell College. Drake University. Self-employed attorney. Traffic Court judge. In other words, not quite ready for prime-time circuit court adjudication, barely qualified for traffic court, but boy, ready to banish Trump from the Republican Primary ticket in Illinois. Talk about advocate-judge changing her community, one overreaching judicial ruling after another, to… Read more »
The open secret, not sure if its even a secret, is that there is a mandatory campaign contribution to the Democrat Party upon being slated or elected. The going rate I’ve heard now is $100,000. So when you’re slated, you go to the bank and put a $100k HELOC on your loan and make a $100,000 donation to the party. I heard from someone who knows someone who knows someone, that like two decades ago, the fee was in the $30,000s. Apparently one judge with an irish name ran without first being slated, and won, and they pulled him aside… Read more »
Sometimes I think these people, who think their job is to change communities, do this sort of thing for the publicity, like a reality show where they are the star and they get their 15 seconds of fame and name recognition for the next election. Ms. Traffic Court here needs to stay in her lane and out of trying to change the Country…
It’s the Ghettoization of society.
What a surprise– a Democrat Party slated Cook County judge. But, oh, by the way, she has lots of experience in Cook County Traffic Court.
Here’s something Newsweek missed. “My motto is impacting lives and changing communities and that is how I will approach this new position,” she said when appointed to the court. https://www.isba.org/barnews/2021/10/illinoissupremecourtappointstraciep. No, a judge’s job is to apply the law. And here’s a little video clip of the party when she was appointed: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DVgXs6ANb68
It all makes sense when you recognize that Cook County’s justice system is run as a DEI spoils system. They really believe they can plug and play various DEI candidates into positions within the county and things will run just fine.
It’s time for a meeting at the Mystic Knights of the Sea lodge with the
Attorney, Algonquin J. Calhoun, Esq.
In attendance, he will get it fixed