DUmbasses discuss Chi-town chicanery

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The Northerner (1000+ posts)  Journal Click to send private message to this author Click to view this author's profile Click to add this author to your buddy list Click to add this author to your Ignore list    Sun May-01-11 04:21 PM
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Quinn wants to withhold cities' money as pressure to borrow billions
   
SPRINGFIELD — Gov. Pat Quinn wants to stop nearly $100 million in monthly payments to Chicago, the suburbs and other Illinois towns if lawmakers won't let him borrow billions of dollars to pay overdue bills, according to a confidential memo the Tribune obtained on Thursday.

The idea drew immediate blowback from local leaders worried about balancing their own budgets in a sluggish economy.

"To me, it sounds like they're holding us hostage," said Tinley Park Mayor Ed Zabrocki, a former Republican legislator.

The proposal, outlined in the memo and quietly distributed to top legislators, represents a pressure tactic by the Democratic governor. He hopes mayors from Zion to Cairo will squeeze their town's lawmakers to help get him the loan he wants.

Read more: http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/local/ct-met-quinn-b...

The Chicago way.

mucifer Donating Member (1000+ posts)  Journal Click to send private message to this author Click to view this author's profile Click to add this author to your buddy list Click to add this author to your Ignore list    Sun May-01-11 04:27 PM
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1. It's a huge mess in IL it's not Quinn's fault. It is the fault of repub AND dem politiicans
   
for decades screwing up our state.

It took Obama's (p)residency to get a republican into national office in IL but somehow the GOP is to blame.

Hey look everybody! It's Drale!

Drale (1000+ posts)  Journal Click to send private message to this author Click to view this author's profile Click to add this author to your buddy list Click to add this author to your Ignore list    Sun May-01-11 04:29 PM
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2. Indeed and my mayor Ed Zabrocki has been complaining
   
about everything since he retired from his full time job.

EDIT: Zabrocki was a consoler at Brother Rice High school. Mayor in our town is a part time job.

"Consoler"? WTF is that? Do they take emotionally distraught young boys and girls and hug them closely?

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mucifer Donating Member (1000+ posts)  Journal Click to send private message to this author Click to view this author's profile Click to add this author to your buddy list Click to add this author to your Ignore list    Sun May-01-11 04:27 PM
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1. It's a huge mess in IL it's not Quinn's fault. It is the fault of repub AND dem politiicans
   
for decades screwing up our state.

Republicans have only controlled the Illinois state government for 2 of the 28 years or so.  Most of the damage done has been done by Chicago thugs.

[DumbAss Tanker]

"Consoler"? WTF is that? Do they take emotionally distraught young boys and girls and hug them closely?

Makes you wonder WTF Drale thought he was spelling when he chose his screen name, doesn't it?

  

[thundley4]

Makes you wonder WTF Drale thought he was spelling when he chose his screen name, doesn't it?

  

OTOH, maybe a "consoler" is needed at schools in high crime areas where kids are shot every week.

[GOBUCKS]

Makes you wonder WTF Drale thought he was spelling when he chose his screen name, doesn't it?

I think DUmmy Drale established long ago that he does not think.

[Darth Claymore]

I have no doubts at all that any politician from Chicago/Cook County are some of the best public servants that money can buy.