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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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He doesn’t need to. There is no benefit and plenty of risk if he exposes himself to an open forum like that. He’s winning by a good margin and will be governor unless there’s a serious fumble. Avoiding interviews and debates will reduce the chance of that happening.
Neither one should do the interview. Rauners base is still wearing the tread marks after he and his unelected wife threw them under the bus. Rauner Is a milquetoast and pritzker is the entitled son in law who is made boss over all the experienced employees who actually know anything. The tribune would have attempted to make either of them credible. I’m a lifelong republican who is writing in Ives.
Big mistake. You are better off voting for Rauner simply because of redistricting.
If rauner were really a republican I and thousands of others wouldn’t be in this situation.
Maybe because like all newspapers the Tribune is a quack organization that misquotes candidates, fabricates part of the story, and out and out lies and tell falsehoods abut what the candidates say in order to factor the candidate of the newspaper’s choice. At least that was my experience as a candidate for public office with their affiliates.
That is not to say I think Pritzker is anything the than a creepy low-talent hack, or Rauner an offish liar, or Kash a very disturbing individual, but even these three degenerate types are head and shoulders over the Tribune.