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Posts tagged "Gov. Quinn"

Watch Hamos (Mack the Knife?) on Cable in Chicago and Suburbs and on web; Do Theis and 10th CD Schneider need Hamos, et al to help them win?

HFS Director Julie Hamos: I am going to be a very unpopular person in Springfield because we’re not going to let people have so many choices in the Medicaid program…We’re working in the opposite direction…  How to contain this program. How to contain the Medicaid budget. Jeff Berkowitz:  But, you have to understand when you... Read more »
By Jeff Berkowitz,
March 16, 2012 at 9:32 am
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IL Gov candidate Sen. Brady's income tax returns: A big story?

Senator Bill Brady (R-Bloomington), the Republican nominee for Governor, made his tax returns for 2004-2009 available to the media yesterday (to review, but not copy) for three hours in Springfield. Reporters who did not make it to Springfield to read the returns had the benefit of an email summary. Sen. Brady paid no federal income tax... Read more »
By Jeff Berkowitz,
April 24, 2010 at 1:38 am
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Gov. Quinn to ask this afternoon for downstater Sheila Simon to be his running mate

Governor Quinn has backed away from his first choice for his Lt.Gov. running mate on the Democratic ticket, State Senator Susan Garrett (D-Lake Forest).  According to  senior Democratic operatives, very close to the Democratic State Central Committee, Gov. Quinn was frustrated by Senator Garrett’s reluctance to be a team player and come out, whole hog, for his proposed income tax... Read more »
By Jeff Berkowitz,
March 26, 2010 at 2:05 am
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Reaponding to Gov. Quinn's proposed budget: Reform, New ideas and No New Taxes.

Gov. Quinn delivered an essentially status quo budget yesterday. It should be treated as dead on arrival. His education cuts of ten percent are not intended to solve the deficit problem. They are intended, instead, to motivate the teachers unions, the PTAs, the Illinois Association of School Boards, etc. to lobby for Quinn’s proposed 33%... Read more »
By Jeff Berkowitz,
March 11, 2010 at 1:42 am
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Sen. Brady v. Gov. Quinn: A choice, not an echo, on taxes, reform and job creation.

Thirty-one days after the election, a few hours after the Illinois Board of Elections certified him the winner of the Illinois Republican gubernatorial primary by the margin of 193 votes and an hour after Senator Dillard gracefully chose not to ask for a recount, downstate Senator Bill Brady, 48, stood with his wife, Nancy, and... Read more »
By Jeff Berkowitz,
March 6, 2010 at 3:06 am
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