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"Yes, once again, our alderpeople, who have been called the “lowest form of political life” (per Mike Royko), and whose No. 1 job is making sure the trash gets collected in their wards, are venturing into foreign policy...'The potential of making and influencing national and international policy at the local level excites progressives in particular,” wrote Karen Dolan and Emily Schwartz Greco.'"
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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Because it’s easier to virtue-signal your progressive democrat political beliefs than to address actual city governance problems.
Chicago residents and its taxpayers would be best served if NO new regulations were enacted hereon, that City Council served only to authorize contract awards for existing line-items, re-evaluate budget line-items for budget cuts, and ignored political issues altogether.
Only reason a Chicago alderperson would express a political opinion regarding issues outside of City Council’s chartered authority would be personal ambition for higher office. Sponsors of “Gaza Resolution” aren’t interested in their constituents’ interests regarding actual Chicago services.
Chicago alderman on the sorry state of the city…”look a puppy!”
Because they can’t, or won’t, clean up their own house. A politically correct distraction.
Don’t forget another group that can’t clean up their own house, but are passing resolutions and making demands about everything from the border issue to a Gaza ceasefire- teacher unions.
Once upon a time local officials busied themselves with local issues. Now they can’t solve a local issue — think crime, CPS, property tax rates but they busy themselves with foreign policy!