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Posted by The Capitol Fax Blog 2 years ago.
* 2:21 pm - Republican DuPage County State’s Attorney Joe Birkett is calling around this afternoon saying he plans to run for attorney general.
This would be Birkett’s second try at AG. He lost to Lisa Madigan in 2002. He ran for governor f...
Posted by The Capitol Fax Blog 2 years ago.
* 2:21 pm - Republican DuPage County State’s Attorney Joe Birkett is calling around this afternoon saying he plans to run for attorney general.
This would be Birkett’s second try at AG. He lost to Lisa Madigan in 2002. He ran for governor f...
Posted by The Capitol Fax Blog 2 years ago.
* 2:21 pm - Republican DuPage County State’s Attorney Joe Birkett is calling around this afternoon saying he plans to run for attorney general.
This would be Birkett’s second try at AG. He lost to Lisa Madigan in 2002. He ran for governor f...
Posted by The Capitol Fax Blog 2 years ago.
* Ah, the Tribune editorial board. Not blowhardish at all. Today’s editorial blasts Gov. Pat Quinn, House Speaker Michael Madigan and Senate President John Cullerton…
You evidently have one priority: You want what’s best for the people...
Posted by The Capitol Fax Blog 2 years ago.
* In my opinion, Gov. Quinn has crossed the line…
Caught in the crossfire are social-service providers who were previously warned by Quinn that dramatic cuts of 50 percent or more would result if lawmakers didn’t come up with more money. In a ...
Posted by The Capitol Fax Blog 2 years ago.
* I put together a couple of videos last night that you may want to watch. The first is House Speaker Michael Madigan and Gov. Quinn talking about the governor’s apparent flip-flops. Make sure you watch all the way to the end for the “best...
Posted by The Capitol Fax Blog 2 years ago.
* Yesterday was a huge traffic day on this site. It wasn’t quite a record (the mark set on Rod Blagojevich’s arrest day will probably stand for a while). But everything slowed down to a crawl yesterday because so many people were trying to a...
Posted by The Capitol Fax Blog 2 years ago.
* I’m gonna run home and upload more, but here are a few videos to get you started. All three are from Gov. Quinn’s veto press conference. Quality is poor, since Mike is gone and I did them….
Quinn, Part 1…Quinn, Part 2…Quin...
Posted by The Capitol Fax Blog 2 years ago.
* I’m gonna run home and upload more, but here are a few videos to get you started. All three are from Gov. Quinn’s veto press conference. Quality is poor, since Mike is gone and I did them….
Quinn, Part 1…Quinn, Part 2…Quin...
Posted by The Capitol Fax Blog 2 years ago.
*2:44 pm - Speaker Madigan’s presser has begun.
What the guv really wants, MJM said, is more money to spend.
Posted by The Capitol Fax Blog 2 years ago.
* 2:15 pm - The governor just announced he had vetoed SB 1197, which funds social service grants, among other things. More in a few.
Here’s a brief video of the veto ceremony. Watch how hard he whacks the bill with his veto stamp. Funny…
Posted by The Capitol Fax Blog 2 years ago.
* 12:41 pm - The governor is two legislative leaders are calling a special session for Tuesday, July 14th. [Sorry for the confusion.]
* The session will be at 2 o’clock. The proclamation talks about issues dealing with the budget, so it can be bro...
Posted by The Capitol Fax Blog 2 years ago.
* 12:41 pm - The governor is two legislative leaders are calling a joint legislative session for Tuesday, July 14th. [Sorry for the confusion.]
* The session will be at 2 o’clock. The proclamation talks about issues dealing with the budget, so it ...
Posted by The Capitol Fax Blog 2 years ago.
* The Governor’s Office issued a press release this morning indicating that Governor Quinn will take veto action at 1:30 this afternoon…
SPRINGFIELD – Governor Pat Quinn will take veto action. There will be a b-roll and photo opportunity in...
Posted by The Capitol Fax Blog 2 years ago.
* Blogger Cal Skinner is being sued by the parent company of the Northwest Herald…
The civil lawsuit challenges Cal Skinner Jr.’s June 3 post on his political blog alleging that the newspaper received a multimillion dollar-loan from McHenry County...
Posted by The Capitol Fax Blog 2 years ago.
* One of the best publicly available roundups of yesterday’s events is at Illinois Issues’ blog…
Despite the governor’s wishes, the legislature didn’t even consider raising taxes [yesterday]. Lawmakers, instead, sent him pieces of wh...
Posted by The Capitol Fax Blog 2 years ago.
* We had a lot of excellent videos yesterday. In fact, so many of you watched the videos that we were ranked 29th in the world on YouTube reporter sites…That would be ahead of ABC network news, and ahead of the New York Times.
I guess we need more ...
Posted by The Capitol Fax Blog 2 years ago.
* 8:45 pm - The pension note bill failed again in the Senate, and President Cullerton blamed the lack of support on Governor Quinn.
After speaking in favor of the pension note bill during his address to the joint session of the GA, Quinn apparently calle...
Posted by The Capitol Fax Blog 2 years ago.
* 7:45 pm - Speaker Madigan just adjourned the chamber and told members to prepare to come back to deal with Gov. Quinn’s budget veto overrides. He told a couple members of the press that he would be voting for those overrides.
I’ll have Ma...
Posted by The Capitol Fax Blog 2 years ago.
*6:00 - The Senate just defeated the pension bonding bill. It came up two votes short.However, the SDems believe they will have another vote today on another concurrence motion.
* Voting no or present among Dems were Clayborne, Forby, Frerichs, Jacobs,...
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