UPDATE: My Richard Mell moment. + When it comes to screwing retirees, Illinois’ politicians are bi-partisan + Illinois SB 2404 provides for guaranteed pension funding. Plus 2%. « Fred Klonsky

Illinois SB 2404 provides for guaranteed pension funding. Plus 2%. « Fred Klonsky:

My Richard Mell moment.

by Fred Klonsky

In the days after Harold Washngton’s death, Alderman Richard Mell rises to help the Machine stage a City Hall coup.
Chicago Reader’s Ben Joravsky writes about Alderman Richard Mell in his column today. It’s about the City Council moratorium on school closings that has been sent to Mell’s Rules Committee to die a parliamentary death at the behest of former UNO boss, now alderman Danny Solis.
I may have told you about my Richard Mell moment before. But in case you forgot.
I once lived in Mell’s ward.
I didn’t move. He did.
Or to be more precise,  I got remapped out of his ward two or three ward

My drawings: Who is the bigger thief?

by Fred Klonsky

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When it comes to screwing retirees, Illinois’ politicians are bi-partisan.

by Fred Klonsky

Separated at birth. Ken doll (left). Illinois Policy Institute’s John Tillman (right).
The Illinois Policy Institute is a right-wing lobbying group which escapes campaign laws by calling itself a think tank.
This little scam allows them to avoid revealing who its funders are. Much like the Mackinac Center in Michigan.
You might remember the Mackinac Center as having connections to my stalkers in the Education Action Group that are thisclose.
IPI has the Illinois media totally bamboozled. Last week IPI’s talking head was once again sitting on a panel on WTTW’s Chicago Tonight where he was the other side of the story along with the Center for Tax and Budget 

Illinois SB 2404 provides for guaranteed pension funding. Plus 2%.

by Fred Klonsky

IFT President Dan Montgomery.
Imagine your boss came up to you and said, “I have good news and bad news. The good news is that you have a guaranteed job for the rest of your life.”
You would probably say, “Great! But what’s the bad news?”
“Oh. The bad news is that I’m not going to pay you.”
That is the problem with Illinois’ constitutional pension protection clause.
The Illinois constitution guarantees that public employee pensions may not be diminished or impaired.
But the constitution does not require the state to actually pay into the pension funds. So year after year after