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***Evil Emil has decided to allow for an up or down vote on the Legislative Pay Raises.  This is completely unexpected.  Perhaps, Mrs. Jones was promised an increase in her state-paid salary so the Jones' won't have to go on the welfare...From the Sun-Times editorial: 

As the Sun-Times reported earlier this year, some state lawmakers have exploited a legal loophole to give themselves no-interest personal loans from their campaign funds. Jones himself has borrowed more than $120,000 — some of it supposedly going to pay for gas.

***It might not be Cabela's, but this new sports store sounds pretty cool.

***If you didn't get to a Slider's game this year, you suck.  This is exactly the type of thing that Springfield should support - cheap (we know you like cheap) and fun (this is the part we're not sure about-do you like fun?).

***Interesting column from Brooks in the NYT.  The opening ceremonies for the Olympics did have this sense of almost hive like precision; as Brooks puts it a "harmonious collectivism".

***LTG Quinn keeps doing things that make us like him.  Crap.

***Rochester wants to know what their citizens want in their village.  What a novel idea.  Actually asking what the citizens of a municipality want.  Hmmm, IF Renfrow/Davlin ever asked, what would you want to see in Spfld?  Don't worry, they won't.

***And, now Pelosisays she'll 'allow' a vote on off-shore drilling?????  First Emil & now Pelosi?!?!  Hell is getting chilly & the Cubs might have a chance...Nah.  That's going too far...

***Crazy Rod, who got a 'C' in Con Law, is seriously pushing the Constitutional division between the Exec and Leg, so says Dawn Clarke Netsch (who probably got an 'A' in Con Law).  Also, Charlie Wheeler, from UIS, seems to believe that Crazy Rod is stretching the IL Constitution like Silly Putty:

"There's always been a tension between governors and legislators. The difference with this administration is they seem to feel less constricted by the (state) constitution than their predecessors," said Charles Wheeler, a longtime statehouse journalist who now runs the Public Affairs Reporting program at the University of Illinois at Springfield. "I think there are some serious constitutional questions involved."

***We're at the Fair all week inside Gate 2.  Stop on by...

 

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