By: Diane Benjamin It took a long time for the Bloomington Election Commission to name a new Executive Director, the last one quit in May. I’d still like to know why Tim Mitchell quit suddenly and why it took so long to replace him. Did they have trouble finding a qualified applicant? The new Executive […]
By: Diane Benjamin Today, if the House has a quorum, Madigan is calling a vote to override Gov. Rauner’s veto of the income tax hike. 15 Republicans voted for it the first time even though no concessions were made by the Democrats and nothing gets solved. The GOP holds all the cards because the Democrats […]
By: Diane Benjamin The 4th of July commemorates the signing of the Declaration of Independence from Great Britain. It includes a long list of “repeated injuries and usurpations” of the Americans’ rights and liberties. FIFTEEN members of the Republican party voted yesterday in the House of Representatives to increase our income taxes 32%: Republicans voting yes […]
By: Diane Benjamin Comptroller Leslie Munger has a new website to promote transparency. This one reveals campaign contributions. The State Board of Elections has this information, but it’s NOT in a usable format. This website is! Data can be copied to a spreadsheet without doing any reformatting. From there is can be sorted, grouped, and […]
Illinois Review posted a story this weekend about Madigan’s pension mess. It concentrated on the bill allowing people to work briefly for the state, then work for a union, then collect huge state pensions based on their work for other organizations instead of the state. Madigan, of course, wrote the bill to benefit an […]
http://illinoisreview.typepad.com/illinoisreview/2012/09/last-14-teacher-union-contributions-to-republican-leaders.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+typepad%2FbYHz+%28Illinois+Review%29 This article may further explain. oes Republican silence on CTU strike relate to union contributions? Illinois Republican lawmakers seem strangely quiet on the CTU strike. Few press releases. Even fewer comments. Might it have something to do with teachers union support? Below are some of the contributions the Illinois Education Association – Illinois’ largest […]
