Saturday coffee.
The attempt to allow Chicago to short their obligation to the teacher pension fund failed in spite of the attempts by both Madigan and Cullerton to pass a bill allowing another so-called pension holiday.
That would be a holiday for the political hucksters. Not the teachers.
Illinois public employees keep their constitutionally guaranteed benefits.
What a David and Goliath battle that was.
On the one side were the forces of the Civic Committee, the corporate media (led by the financially and morally bankrupt Chicago Tribune) and the leadership of the Republican and Democratic Parties. Included among those