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Thursday, November 15, 2012

UPDATE: Ty Fahner. The Paul Ryan of Illinois pension reform. No time for details. « Fred Klonsky

Ty Fahner. The Paul Ryan of Illinois pension reform. No time for details. « Fred Klonsky:


Ty Fahner. The Paul Ryan of Illinois pension reform. No time for details.


The Civic Committee’s Ty Fahner.
Remember the election of of 2012.
It was all the talk before the General Petraeus thing.
Remember we had this VP candidate who was famous for his bogus budget plan that was  so lacking in details that it became a running joke on late night TV. The proposal was big on cuts to the poor and Social Security. But when Congressman Ryan was asked for supporting data or details, he would smile and say he didn’t have the time to go into the details.
Now we have the head of the corporate Civic Committee playing Paul Ryan on the issue of state employee pensions.
Crain’s reports that yesterday Ty Fahner went to the media and declared the state’s public pensions unfixable


Mindy Donoho deserves a a living wage. But we are all Mindy Donoho. Ty Fahner is our Rita Grundwell.


Dixon Comptroller stole $53 million while nobody watched. Ty Fahner is the state’s Rita Grundwell.
Good for the Illinois Education Association and their campaign for a living wage in Illinois.
They are campaigning for the thousands of their members who work as paraprofessionals and other non-certified jobs in the state’s schools but barely earn enough to feed their families.
But the campaign will also benefit the ten of thousands of other workers in the state who are part of the class of the class of the working poor.

STERLING – Mindy Donoho has two jobs.

She has to: Her primary job as a classroom aide at Dixon High School simply does not pay enough.

“It’s a struggle,” Donoho said. “… We’re not choosing whether to go on vacation