Maisenbacher Debacle Part III

***So, here we are.  Back to another $280,000 for the Maisenbacher House which the SJR proudly proclaims was initially funded by Abraham Lincoln.  Where exactly is that proof?  That aside, because in today's journalism who needs facts, nobody is saying that this $280,000 will be the last $280,000.  Remember this is in addition to $150,000 to move the damn thing.

The Conns will be back.  They will ask for another $400,000 before this is all said and done and they will eventually get their $850,000 - $1,000,000 for this house because the City Council has buckled.

The SJR says that this is a perfect TIF project.  Really?  There isn't any project that was already in the TIF boundaries that could benefit from $1,000,000??!?!?!  None.  How about the Korean War Museum?  What about the Surveyor's Museum?  What about the empty storefronts that pock mark downtown Springfield?  Nope.  The city had to drag an old home w/sketchy historic ties, at best, INTO the TIF area in order for it to become a perfect TIF project.

***Mary Mitchell on Burris:  Now, in an affidavit he sent to House Majority Leader Barbara Flynn Currie three weeks after he was sworn into office, he claims Blagojevich's camp hit him up for campaign cash -- as much as $10,000, a source told the Sun-Times.

You don't really think for one moment that Burris forgot Blagojevich's brother hit him up for $10,000, do you?

***Lisa Madigan now calls for an inquiry into Roland Burris.  She must've gotten the poll results back...

***Eric Zorn still in the finger wagging business.  He doesn't like it that people use the phrase 'goo-goo' as a perjoritive when describing people who are for 'government reform'.  Zorn is a Goo-Goo who supports other Goo-Goos who are hell bent on restricting freedoms and rights that they don't agree with.  Tough.

***Speaking of finger wagging nannies, some GOP legislators seem to have a very difficult time identifying themselves as Republicans these days.  These guys are all about restricting everything when it comes to driving - cell phone usage, etc.  The SJR reports that there were 1001 crashes attributable to cell phone use in '08 and 1357 crashes in '07, a drop of 356 in one year. 

Here's the deal, though, there were 422,778 crashes in Illinois in '07.  The cell phone crashes represent a 1/3 of 1% of traffic crashes in '07.

***Kelm and Kirk on WMAY.com.

 

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