Illinois Statewide Mega-Thread: State has first budget in over a year

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Good news! Rauner and the legislature passed and signed a bill, the "Illinois Unemployment Insurance Act", two days ago, after being unanimously approved by the legislature and is hailed as a compromise between business and labor.

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It also restores $25 million to older people on unemployment who also had their Social Security benefits reduced by up to 50% of the estimated insurance amount.


http://www.rebootillinois.com/2015/11/09/editors-picks/mark-fitton/rauner-business-labor-strike-deal-on-unemployment-insurance-reforms/48558/

Great!  And with that Rauner has already accomplished more than Pat Quinn did in 7 years.

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Give me Toni Taxwinkle.

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Madigan is the closest a human being can come to garbage

He's not that bad, aside from bankrupting the state.  The Illinois Democrats are pretty moderate thanks to him.

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Madigan is the closest a human being can come to garbage

He's not that bad, aside from bankrupting the state.  The Illinois Democrats are pretty moderate thanks to him.

Madigan is not a moderate; if he was the legislature wouldn't be a gridlocked hellhole. I mean seriously, they can't even pass education funding despite rauner bending over backward? Madigan is a fierce partisan who wants to punish the state for electing rauner.

One can be a partisan moderate.

LOLOLOLOL. A moderate is the antithesis of a partisan.

You're wrong.  Madigan and his General Assembly Democrats have always governed conservatively.  They don't like to rock the boat, and have to be dragged kicking and screaming when it comes to passing progressive legislation.  They're not ideologically conservative, necessarily.

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Yes, Illinois Republicans are much more attractive than Illinois Democrats.  Not even close!

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http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/local/breaking/ct-joan-murphy-obituary-20160918-story.html

Cook County Commissioner Joan Murphy has died.  She was a trailblazer for women in Cook County government, and will be greatly missed!  Her kind of Democrat is rare in Cook these days, and she is a woman I admire.