McCarthy Panders
- Mayoral candidate Garry McCarthy showed up Tuesday at a jam-packed Daley Center courtroom to demonstrate his support for former city employees fighting to restore the 55 percent retiree health care subsidy abolished by Mayor Rahm Emanuel.
If he is elected mayor, McCarthy said he is determined to find the $130 million a year needed to restore the subsidy for retirees, 10,000 of whom started working for the city prior to April 1, 1986 and, therefore, are not eligible for Medicare.
“Emotionally, it disturbs me greatly that this is the way we treat retirees. It’s not fair. You’ve heard me say we need more compassionate government. This is exactly what I’m talking about,” McCarthy said.
“Underneath my being a cop for 35 years, I’m kind of a sensitive person, which a lot of people don’t realize it. The more time I’ve spent with the retirees, the more it’s gotten to me. I wanted to know more about it and show my support for them. I don’t think this should have happened. It needs to be corrected. It’s just another fiscal challenge we’re gonna have to face.”
Remember, Chicago doesn't have a revenue problem - it has a sending problem whereby everything is spent on buying the next vote and not paying for obligations.
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posted by SCC at 12:01 AM
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How is it even legal to cut health care and pensions for workers not eligible for Social Security and Medicare?
https://www.cookcountyclerk.com/news/cook-county-tifs-bring-record-1-billion-according-clerk-orr-transit-tif-revenue-doubled
Abolish TIF Districts there is plenty of money!
Vote NO to a contract with any kind of concessions!
This goof is still part of Rham's circus.
If he was sincere & a real stand up guy he would admit Rham viewed the Van Dyke shooting video the very next day along with him!
He would then admit yes, I helped to hide the video along with all the other corrupt CPD bosses and the corrupt city counsel!
Then I would have respect for this handpick goof from NY.
Huh?
Help out retired Cops, their spouses and widows
in the name of fairness and honoring contracts?
G-Mac gave all the joyful haters something
to hate about even more...
Just remember the state of the department is all Mcarthys fault.
After Vallas outlines his plan to restore health care to retirees then McDummy begins feeling "kind of sensitive"? Perhaps he can take some fake tear lessons from Rahm. Honestly, who would trust a word this egomaniac says.
Oh you got that right. Garry is very sensitive.
Never met a mirror he didn't fancy.
STFU and GFYS McCarthy! Anybody who thinks this jackass will be a good mayor needs their heads examined. McCarthy is a narcissist who fucked up this department worse than it already was with his Comp-stat, contact cards, and closing of Det. Area's and some districts. Now the city is trying to play catch-up with promoting detectives and Sgt's which should have been maintained during his tenure. He is a legend in his own mind.
Anyone know the approx number of retirees who still live in the state,let alone the city?
Yes, true on all accounts, but he kind of stole a vallas talking point and he does not have the broad appeal that someone like Joyce might have. He’s a carpetbagger and carried Rahm’s water for how long? He also came out and said that we don’t need more
Police...staffing is just fine. Sorry but, can’t support him. Vallas or Joyce are actually pro police, pro union who both believe we need more police on the streets.
McCarthy has screwed the department but have to say he likes retired coppers. FOP is doing endorsements on Tuesday and I wonder who they will go with. Will they back PO Kessem for State Rep?
Where to find $130 Million?
* TIF Funds....
* $20 million got spent on bike lanes
* $100 million got spent on the Subway station that connects to nothing, under State Street. Never used
* $50 million wasn't it on the stadium built for a private school?
* Million or two (who's counting?) on the "City ID" card...
* Million or two on the legal aid services for the illegal aliens
* $50 million PER YEAR pissed away for the individual slush funds controlled by the 50 Alderthieves...
And that's just some of what I thought of before my first cup of coffee...
Yes we have a spending problem and it's caused by whom else but the Democrats pandering for votes, they could care less about us. You will never see that subsidy return as long as this City is completely controlled by them. Just look at the smear job they are doing on Judge Brett Kavanaugh. Even our own Turbin Durbin had a hand in it bullying the judge and tried to embarrass him. These Democrat politicians are worse than the criminals that law enforcement deals with. If McCarthy wants to gain the trust and confidence of the citizens and police he needs to reject the Democrat allegiance and come clean about the workings of the party. When you had a job like he had he was privy to the secrets. Start spilling the beans!
I read these posts and it just makes me laugh . People on here complaine about GM or even the Supe now about how they "sold out" or ruined the department . Wake the fuck up people, all the damage has been done by our mayor Mr. 9.5. Mr. 9.5 pulls the strings and these guys follow the rules . The only difference is that they are the mouth pieces and on the Tv doing it . Don't think for one second the mayor does not tell them what to say. Do you really think that EJ is going to risk his 150K +++ a year pension for disobeying HIS & OUR BOSS ??? I would have to say no , not a single person on this job would . It's common sense , family first . As the saying goes " you can't fight city hall" the most important thing about this election is that we THE POLICE get out there and vote ! Get our wife and kids if old enough to vote . If we back one candidate and stick together with our fellow city workers such as fire & streets & San ... we swing elections and elect OUR mayor . Think about that for a second , let's say there are 10,000 of CPD and 1/2 are married and 1/2 of the married police officers have voting age children and we endorse one candidate , that's 17,500 votes for one candidate . This right here wins elections . This theory does not even consider retireries with spouses and adult children , add another 17,500 easy . 35,000 votes alone win elections and swing it in our direction . WE MUST STICK TOGETHER. Anyway enough from me , God Bless JVD & his family and be safe officers , we are all we have out there!!!
GMac didn'tsay a damn word about pensions and health care when he was in charge and could have challenged Rahm
So eff him.
The endorsement or lack thereof, of Merit Sgt. Kessem, formerly Aztlan, is a key point to consider. The FOP has consistently backed politicians who have done little for us. I can still remember, FOP endorsing Lisa Madigan the first time she ran, and being told to vote for her and her dad would get us an 80% pension. The FOP and coppers and their families are taken for granted by politicians and expected to support Democrat Machine candidates. We have done it too long and gotten little in return. We are tied to living in the "Shitty", and for that reason alone we should be stronger. IT WOULD BE A MISTAKE FOR THE FOP TO NOT ENDORSE KESSEM FOR STATE REP IN THE 19TH DISTRICT. IF NOTHING ELSE, SHE IS A COP AND UNDERSTANDS WHAT WE LIVE. Stay Strong. Baby "G"
GMAC is controlled by Rick Simon and the other outfit/combine connected scum and takes his orders from them. He is a hypocrite whose fund raiser is Lori Montana who is the queen of combine politics who also ruined the Illinois state lottery. Her husband Jim was counsel to RINO outfit connected obama supporter Jim Edgar who started the destruction of Illinois by putting Chicago dems and organized crime associates on the state payroll.
GMac is the only one speaking up on our behalf yet people still bash him. Did I agree with everything he did, no I did not. Do I like that he is trying to do right by us, yes I do. Why would anyone vote for a Daley or Preckwinkle is beyond me. GMac has my vote and my families as well.
Garry is concerned about us now?
He wasn’t too concerned for us when he hopped in bed with the ACLU and allowed them to force the ISR on us.
Behind all my pandering and scumbaggery, I'm a good guy.
Please. GFY and take your second family back to NY. Maybe your blushing bride can get a job doing real estate closings in Jersey.
Bravo to 9/29/2018 02:26:00 AM. Spot On .♠️
New Dem governor for Illinois, and new Dem mayor soon for Chicago.
This city is fucked.
Hate to be a contrarian, and I can't stan Tiny Dancer. Those were one time Capital Expenditures. Health care for retirees is like herpes. Keeps spreading year after year. I got in in 80 and found it teally easy to get 10 quarters of Social Security earnings under my belt. Anyone who thought the City would be able to pay for full health coverage for a lifetime was naive at best.
Pandering too late. McCarthy is part of the problem. He assisted in hiding the video so that Rahm could be re-elected. Until he comes clean and says he was ordered to by his boss (Rahm), then ordered a dozen or so current and former top brass to go along with it, I will not even listen to his nonsense.
After he admits to conspiring with Rahm, I would ask him what has changed in the last 7 years that would make him think that now we need more POs, Dets, Dists, and areas? In the past he said we had enough. Do we need to replay his speech at St. Sabina where he also pandered to the pretend father?
He pandered to the right crowd yesterday but what’s on the where’s mines agenda Sunday?
He gonna take away my jungle gym, screwrool supplies and back packs, close up mental health facilities and deplete all the resources in the community. Women are going to die, babies are going hongry and start shooting at one another just to eat.
Vallas came out and said he will drop any and all the Elon Muskrat Tunnel process (a $10 billion dollar savings, thank you very much).
Rahm has 3 months to sign a commitment to this, don’t be surprised if the of the 48 Alderthieves agree.
Also, seen JagBag JB Prickzter (pension taxer) was out yesterday with a small gaggle of hen, he holding up a “I Believe” (Dr Blasey-Ford) sign.
- Gmac and Vallas have been getting a lot of good talking points and issues out.
- Yet to hear what Chico exactly will do...for the taxpayers.
- Remaining twits are big spending idiots promoting restorative justice and freeloader gimmydats.
-ShortShanks 3.0 loaned his campaign $500 k and is awaiting for midterms in Nov to get further orders from Nobel Prize winner obamagarrett worldwide inInternational, DC Inc. ($300 mil commitment already approved for a book Chicago, non-revenue producing boondoggle book repository).
Can’t wait to see how the lib channel 11 WTTW Phil Ponce Debates will be structured.
Likely broken up to include at least 2-3 bigmouth fringe idiot candidates to one old white man.
The money is there, spent quietly on freeloader healthcare, but lookie there NW spiders, notice all water and sewer crisis averted (until they rear it up again) with improvement spending?
Hes sensitive alright, guys got an ego thats soft like a baby bunny. Jagoff.
OT,where will the superintendent put the 20 or so police officers assigned to his office when he is gone?
No thanks Garry you can keep your bullshit!
Sorry scc got to violated the rules and say it why didn’t that asshiole McCarthy say something when he was the Supt. If he was still the superintendent instead of rahms sacrificial lamb he’d be castigating the retirees. He and his outfit handler Simon are shills. God forbid if he gets elected.
He is a sensitive person, that’s why he signed off on the original ACLU consent decree.
Wow, who'd ever thunk it?
It appears that at one time in his life, McCarthy was Real Police and there's still a flicker of it somewhere in him.
(but he's still a typical arrogant New York asshole)
some people in the know are putting McCarthy as a front runner and in the run-off
Anonymous said...
How is it even legal to cut health care and pensions for workers not eligible for Social Security and Medicare?
9/29/2018 12:07:00 AM
These are two separate things and covered by two separate laws. Congress would have to change the social security law ( Windfall Provision Act) for everyone and that is something that will never happen. Social security is in the hole as we speak and they are not going to increase benefits for anyone. Health care for employees or retirees is up to the city council and pension is covered by state law. If JB gets into office you will see negative things happen to our pension and taxes. The dems want to tax pensions in this state and they want to change the state constitution to do this.
I’m so happy Rahm is going to be gone. Unfortunately the city will be broke. He is spending all the money.
getting rid of the 280+ useless lie-whores/lawyers that chicago employs might help, give it a try
Try again Garry,your we’re a cop for 5yrs and a drunken bureaucrat empty holster for 30.
McCarthy doesn’t have a clue on how to run a government...he waited until Vallas outlined his vision, and is trying to copy any of those point that had received good press. McCarthy just wants to be king to feed his ego!
How is it even legal to cut health care and pensions for workers not eligible for Social Security and Medicare?
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Pensions are not being cut at all.
The health care issue is something else. It was never intended or envisioned that the vast majority of government employees would be able to retire so early. If they worked till their mid 60s like most of us have to, the health insurance issue for government retirees would be much less of a problem.
Somehow those gold plated benefit packages have to be paid for and when you are talking about health insurance for retirees, the cost to the employer can be in the $10-30k/year range, and is not going down. Add $10-30k a year to the cost of every retiree that was never anticipated for 10 or 15 extra years, and you can see why it is a major issue these days.
Government employers and government employee unions have known for 50 years or more that the benefits offered to government employees are unsustainable. Rather than deal with it when it was a relatively minor issue, they decided en mass to put off dealing with it. Why do you think that were so many state constitutions that had a pension guarantee added to the state constitution way back when? That was about all anyone was willing to do. They knew when they put those provisions in state constitutions that it was not sustainable and their only response was to make it all but unfixable short of a complete collapse like what happened in Detroit.
......GMac has my vote and my families as well.
9/29/2018 07:49:00 AM
Has the fat lady just sung?
Any of the other candidates proposing restoring retiree health care?
You’re still a stroke Garry.
Baby G, I agree with you on endorsing Kessem. She has her campaign together and the 19th is fed up with the current Rep. But there are other coppers who who have ran for public office who couldn't even write an ANOV, let alone law and policy.
He has my vote!
Yeah like we need GMAC as our mayor! Who can’t win
http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/local/politics/ct-met-garry-mccarthy-campaign-worker-20180918-story,amp.html
I would never vote for McCarthy (nor would I have voted for Rahm), but McCarthy is right about this issue. Rahm fucked over a lot of us in dropping our health care.
when president trump announced the travel ban from 7 muslim countries rahm went on tv and pledged 30 million for immigration attorneys for foreign citizens. foreigners. city workers............no soup for you. like to see who those connected attys were and what they billed. i retired from a city dept in 2004 and lost my ins for good in 2014 after it tripled in price. i had to go back to work in outside union construction to have insurance until i could get medicare at 65 ( i split up my career and had my 40 quarters before the city ) . my kids and family are cpd and now they are facing this theft of benefits. every time you look at the news the dems are giving away our money for some worthless cause, and during elections they cant seem to give it away fast enough to satisfy the unsatisfyable. you would think they would be smart enough to leave a little to feed the mule pulling the band wagon but i guess not. be safe out there and plan your escape, you dont want to be the last one in line for evac..............oh and fuck rahm and daley!
He'd say anything to get back in the limelight.
I'm sure it will be first on his list.
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