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Quinn vetoes old gaming bill
Monday, Mar 4, 2013 * Gov. Pat Quinn has vetoed the gaming bill passed by the last General Assembly, but not sent to him until the lame duck session’s final day. The veto message is here. It’s the usual stuff. Ethics, too much expansion, etc. Quinn reiterates his demand that pension reform take priority over gaming expansion. Again, read it here.
- Posted by Rich Miller
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- 47th Ward - Monday, Mar 4, 13 @ 12:03 pm:
Was that one veto or three?
- PQ's Primary Opponent - Monday, Mar 4, 13 @ 12:07 pm:
Quinn 2 Rahm 0
want to bet he vetoes SB 7 this time around???
- wordslinger - Monday, Mar 4, 13 @ 12:27 pm:
This can’t be possible.
Chicago Magazine ranked Rahm the #1 most powerful person in Chicago.
Quinn was ranked #70.
Based on that, you’d think the Chicago casino would be up and running now, with Rahm schmoozing the high rollers and Quinn handing out towels in the men’s room.
Some people still don’t get the difference between governor and mayor.
- Michelle Flaherty - Monday, Mar 4, 13 @ 1:08 pm:
Yes, yes governor, we mustnt have gambling at the State Fair where families take their children.
Except, of course, for the legal betting that’s already going on during the fair … where … families … take … their (sigh) … children.
- Arthur Andersen - Monday, Mar 4, 13 @ 1:09 pm:
word, that’s why no one reads Chicago magazine. I didn’t know it was still being printed.
- wordslinger - Monday, Mar 4, 13 @ 1:18 pm:
–word, that’s why no one reads Chicago magazine. I didn’t know it was still being printed.–
I see it at the Dominick’s next to the Enquirer.
Rahm sure has them fooled.
There’s a lot of unintentional hilarity in the list.
Did you know there’s an artist named Theaster Gates that has more clout than Patrick Ryan, Neil Bluhm, Fred Eychaner, Rich and John Daley and Pat Quinn?
http://www.chicagomag.com/Chicago-Magazine/March-2013/Chicago-Power-100/
- BIG R. PH - Monday, Mar 4, 13 @ 2:29 pm:
So we can go to the Horse track to bet on the horses but we cannot go to the Horse track to bet on Black Jack, Craps, Slots etc?
Where is the logic?
- Bulldog58 - Monday, Mar 4, 13 @ 3:57 pm:
So we have this huge financial crisis in the state but when a new revenue source is sent to him, one that isn’t a tax, he vetos it?
- Ruby - Monday, Mar 4, 13 @ 4:15 pm:
Good call Governor Quinn.
- Das Man - Tuesday, Mar 5, 13 @ 6:41 am:
It was a lousy bill -Quinn took the appropriate action.