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Wednesday, January 4, 2012

Defending our pensions will need union leadership with spine. Uh oh. « Fred Klonsky

Defending our pensions will need union leadership with spine. Uh oh. « Fred Klonsky:

Defending our pensions will need union leadership with spine. Uh oh.

GOP House Leader Tom Cross and Democratic state chairman and Speaker Mike Madigan. Separated at birth.

An old Chicago joke: Chicago has two seasons. Winter and road construction.

A bad joke: Illinois has two seasons. The General Assembly is in session so teacher pensions are threatened. And the General Assembly is not in session so they’re making plans to go after teacher pensions.

The veto session ended a month ago. Guess what they have done during the past month?

The plan of the Gang of Four has not essentially changed. The Gang consists of the Civic Committee’s Ty