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This just in… House rejects pay raise - Senate must still act

Wednesday, May 7, 2008 - Posted by Rich Miller

* 1:04 pm - The House is now debating a resolution that would reject the pay raises recommended by the Compensation Review Board. Listen here.

The Republicans are complaining that their own resolution wasn’t called.

* 1:06 pm - Rep. Bill Black (R-Danville) just gave a long speech demanding that people not give long speeches and just vote for the resolution. lol

* 1:12 pm -Listening to these pay raise debates are often hilarious. Rep. David Miller seemed insulted by some of the things the sponsor (Rep. Fred Crespo) said about how the General Assembly had failed the state regarding things like education funding reform. Miller has unsuccessfully pushed ed. funding reform for years, and Crespo is a reliable anti tax hike vote. Miller also asked why Crespo didn’t just introduce legislation to do away with the Compensation Review Board.

* 1:17 pm -The Repubs tried to dislodge their own pay raise resolution yesterday with a discharge motion. Rep. Crespo voted for the motion to sustain the chair’s ruling that the GOP’s resolution would stay in committee. In other words, yesterday Crespo didn’t want a debate on an almost identical resolution, but today he’s sponsoring his own resolution.

* 1:17 pm -Apparently, this Democratic resolution was so hastily brought to the floor that HDem staff had no time to put together an analysis for members.

* 1:26 pm - Rep. Crespo is a Democrat in a marginally Republican district, so that’s why he is the sponsor of this resolution.

* 1:29 pm - The resolution to reject the raises passed, as expected, with 94 votes. Eight voted “No” and six voted “Present.”

The Senate must now act to reject the resolution, and that move is in serious doubt.

…Adding… Just to be clear, if the Senate doesn’t approve an identical resolution that rejects the pay raise, then the pay raises will take effect.

* 3:33 pm - The House roll call is finally online.

NO: Will Davis, Jefferies, May, McCarthy, Molaro, Patterson, Rita, Madigan

PRESENT: Brosnahan, Colvin, Graham, Joyce, Miller, Yarbrough

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Wednesday, May 7, 2008 - Posted by Capitol Fax Blog Advertising Department

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Personal stuff and notes to readers

Wednesday, May 7, 2008 - Posted by Rich Miller

* My mom’s birthday was yesterday, and it didn’t end all that well for her. Mom is a bigtime Hillary Clinton supporter, despite having a personal friendship with Barack Obama. Last night’s primary results crushed her hopes that a woman would be elected president this year.

Like many smart, strong women in her age group, my mom has always been a trailblazer. She’s been the “first woman” to do so many things that i can’t even count them any more. Yet, she always had plenty of time for her family, which she cherishes above all else in this world.

A quick story. Mom worked for the US Department of Defense in Germany and was often sent away on temporary duty assignments. A memory that came back to me this week was arriving home from school and discovering that Mom had found the time to come home during her lunch hour and bake a pie for her five sons.

I don’t know why that memory popped into my brain, but it certainly gave me a warm feeling. Thanks, Mom, for everything.

* Mother’s Day is coming up this Sunday and Joan Reeder, the wife of Small Newspaper Statehouse Bureau Chief Scott Reeder, has a wonderful reason to celebrate. From Scott…

Anna Rose Reeder was born at 7:33 am Tuesday at St. John’s Hospital in Springfield. She weighed in at 8 pounds and 1 ounce. She is 20 1/2 inches long and has a full head of hair. Both Mom and baby are doing great. Big sister, Grace, is thrilled. We are quite blessed.

* I ran into Lt. Governor Pat Quinn yesterday and he asked me to pass along his thanks to all of you for your witty, well-written comments on Tuesday’s Question of the Day. He seemed quite impressed with your abilities. I always brag that I have the best commenters in the business, so keep up the good work.

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Question of the day

Wednesday, May 7, 2008 - Posted by Rich Miller

* Russ Stewart writes

Make no mistake about it: The Republicans are on the verge of eradication, if not extinction.

* And the Politico reports

Shellshocked House Republicans got warnings from leaders past and present Tuesday: Your party’s message isn’t good enough to prevent disaster in November, and neither is the NRCC’s money.

The double shot of bad news had one veteran Republican House member worrying aloud that the party’s electoral woes — brought into sharp focus by Woody Jenkins’ loss to Don Cazayoux in Louisiana on Saturday — have the House Republican Conference splitting apart in “everybody for himself” mode. […]

In a piece published in Human Events, the Republicans’ onetime captain, former House Speaker Newt Gingrich, warned his old colleagues that they face “real disaster” on Election Day unless they move immediately to “chart a bold course of real reform” for the country.

And in a closed-door session at the Capitol, National Republican Congressional Committee Chairman Tom Cole (R-Okla.) told members that the NRCC doesn’t have enough cash to “save them” in November if they don’t raise enough money or run strong campaigns themselves.

* From Gingrich’s piece

The current generic ballot for Congress according to the NY Times/CBS poll is 50 to 32 in favor of the Democrats. That is an 18-point margin, reminiscent of the depths of the Watergate disaster. […]

The Republican brand has been so badly damaged that if Republicans try to run an anti-Obama, anti- Reverend Wright, or (if Senator Clinton wins), anti-Clinton campaign, they are simply going to fail.

This model has already been tested with disastrous results.

* Question: Is the GOP doomed? What about in Illinois?

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Obama open thread

Wednesday, May 7, 2008 - Posted by Rich Miller

* Giannoulias mentioned this yesterday, but asked that I not put it on the blog, then the campaign gave the story to Sweet

Sen. Barack Obama (D-Ill.) on Tuesday continued his election day tradition of playing basketball—only to get battered after accidently getting knocked to the ground by Alexi Giannoulias, the Illinois State Treasurer.

Obama chief strategist David Axelrod—who also played in the pick-up game—said Obama was hit in the chest when he got in the way of the shoulder of Giannoulias as the former pro player drove to the basket.

Giannoulias “bashed the ribs of the next president of the United States,” Axelrod said. Obama “was knocked down.”

Though Obama was bruised, Axelrod said he did not see a doctor.

Apparently, Giannoulias drove hard to a hole and Obama moved in and stood his ground. Slam! Obama went down hard and the Secret Service apparently freaked out and rushed to his aid.

Anyway, we haven’t done this in a while, so consider this is a presidential campaign open thread. What are your thoughts on last night’s primaries and the future?

…Adding… Patterson has more on the basketball game.

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Governor Press Release

Wednesday, May 7, 2008 - Posted by Rich Miller

* From the SJ-R

Gov. Rod Blagojevich is to deliver the keynote address at Illinois’ 27th annual Holocaust Memorial Observance, to be held at 11 a.m. today at the Old Capitol State Historic Site.

From what I was told last night, the governor is planning to skip this event. Apparently, he had other plans. I’m not sure what those plans are, and I wasn’t told, but I’m sure there will be some disappointed reporters this morning.

* The governor was in Chicago yesterday for a big press conference with African-American ministers designed to unveil a $150 million “anti-violence” plan. The proposal relies on funding from the capital plan, which is nowhere near an agreement. So, the guv’s splashy rally got mixed reviews, to say the least

DALEY: You need the money. You need the beef. That’s the whole story.

* Hizzoner probably didn’t appreciate the tone of the event….

Flanking Blagojevich at the rally, state Sen. Rickey Hendon (D-Chicago) said enough research has been done. “We don’t need no damn research,” Hendon shouted, drawing thunderous applause. “We know what our children need: They need jobs and opportunity.”

Playing to the crowd, Blagojevich said, “We don’t need studies from the University of Chicago or Ivy League schools like Harvard telling us that between certain hours there’s more violence with kids.”

Daley wants some research by the University of Chicago on why the city’s violence has so drastically increased.

* And then there was this

At Tuesday’s rally, a boisterous Democratic state Sen. Rickey Hendon urged people to rally legislative support for Blagojevich’s plan by calling House Speaker Michael Madigan, Blagojevich’s nemesis.

“Tell Mike Madigan, tell Mike Madigan we need this money,” Hendon roared.

* The governor was interviewed by CBS 2 and demonstrated, again, why his rhetoric doesn’t match reality…

Blagojevich pointed out that State Senate President Emil Jones (D-Chicago) is already backing the capital plan that would fund the anti-violence initiative, and said he believes he can get House Speaker Michael Madigan (D-Chicago) behind it also

Except that Jones now wants to fund the capital bill with an income tax hike, something that Blagojevich flat-out rejects. So, the two men are not together on the capital bill yet.

* And this was pretty telling

[Blagojevich] disagreed with a frequent characterization that he and Madigan do not get along.

“We’d like him, and others in the General Assembly, to look at the epidemic that’s occurring today in Chicago. Twenty-four school kids, since the beginning of the year, have been gunned down. A 3-year-old boy in the Auburn-Gresham neighborhood was playing in front of his home and was caught in front of the crossfire. Now he’s fighting for his life; he was shot in the neck. How can you possibly – those of us who make the rules – simply not do anything?” Blagojevich said.

“I will prevail upon Speaker Madigan and the House Democrats and others, to recognize that this is a crisis”

“Sure, we get along, but if Madigan does nothing to support my specific program then he’s ignoring the problem.”

* And, finally

But the governor also was criticized after Tuesday’s announcement for cutting money last year to CeaseFire, a popular anti-violence program. The state auditor general had knocked how CeaseFire handled some of the state funding it received.

“He always likes it if it’s about a new program he’s created. But if there’s a program that’s been working and it shows results, he cuts it. It’s a narcissistic, egomaniacal way of governing, which just doesn’t work. It just doesn’t work at all,'’ said Rep. Jack Franks, D-Woodstock.

If the shoe fits…

…Adding… I forgot to include Bethany’s piece on the countdown to another overtime session

History could be telling. David Dring, spokesperson for House Minority Leader Tom Cross, says the budget process mirrors last year’s, when each chamber passed a competing budget and a stalemate ensued. Lawmakers were called to Springfield at least once in all 12 months last year. This session, there haven’t been leaders’ meetings on the budget, yet. Leaders have met three times to discuss a statewide capital plan, although there’s little progress to report.

Dring added that he still thinks a May turnaround is possible if the political will is there. “A lot can happen in three weeks around here if people work together.”

A lot can not happen, too.

* Related…

* Suburban schools benefit from lawmakers’ lapse

* Lawmakers brainstorm on construction funds

* State budget cuts would hit colleges

* Legislative pay raises again debated in Illinois

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Morning Shorts

Wednesday, May 7, 2008 - Posted by Kevin Fanning

* Durbin threatens to block Department of Energy appointments

* Governor halts health program enrollment

* Blagojevich flip-flops on decision to close prisons

Gov. Rod Blagojevich’s decision to close a state prison is a reversal of what his own prison experts said just a year ago.

* Lawmakers vow to keep Pontiac state prison open

* IDOT move could cost $1 million

* Reilly: Kids museum would grow after OK

* Children’s Museum debate offers glimpse of things to come

* Children’s Museum Prez Takes Aim at Relocation Proposal Opponent

* Illinois House approves legislation to arrest parolees charged with domestic battery

* Bill would tighten state’s leash on parolees

* Carpentersville teacher named one of state’s best

* A stacked deck

If the County Board meekly approves the Stroger Nine, chances are high that Democratic pols will continue to use the health system to reward friends, punish enemies and spread money around.

* Libertarian candidate bids for spot on 14th Dist. ballot

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Speaking of exploding heads

Tuesday, May 6, 2008 - Posted by Rich Miller

* From Chicago Public Radio

Former Illinois State Treasurer Judy Baar Topinka says she won’t rule out a second run for governor. Topinka lost the 2006 election to incumbent Governor Rod Blagojevich. In Chicago yesterday, Topinka joked about alternatives to campaigning.

TOPINKA: The world is a great and wonderful place. I might run off with a very handsome, rich widower or something like that. Who knows? We’ll see how it goes. I would hope the public realizes that they did have a choice in that last election.

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Question of the day

Tuesday, May 6, 2008 - Posted by Rich Miller

Caption?

[Many thanks to “bored now,” who has an excellent rundown of yesterday’s state Democratic convention delegate meeting over at Illinoize.]

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Laws, laws, everywhere

Tuesday, May 6, 2008 - Posted by Rich Miller

* You gotta give the bicyclists a three-foot cushion when you pass them…

As the weather warms up and more and more bicyclists are taking to the roads around the state, Gov. Rod R. Blagojevich today launched a public awareness effort to educate drivers about a new state law requiring motorists to pass bicyclists with at least three feet to spare. The effort – called “Please Don’t Squeeze” – starts today and is funded by a grant from the Illinois Department of Transportation (IDOT) Division of Traffic Safety to the League of Illinois Bicyclists (LIB).

* Congressman Mark Kirk is worried about Second Life

Lirk particularly singled out the site Second Life. On Second Life, users create an online persona for themselves and can engage in a variety of supposedly fantasy behaviors, including illegal actions like prostitution and drug dealing.

He cited legislation he introduced requiring libraries to get parental permission for children using networking Web sites and requiring schools to prevent children from accessing them.

* Eric Zorn takes a look at the unintended consequences of Scott’s Law, “the six-year-old state statute imposing very stiff penalties on motorists who don’t give a wide berth to emergency vehicles whenever possible”…

I was in the right lane, going roughly the speed limit on a clear night on a flat, straight road with light traffic. Up ahead I saw the flashing lights of a police car on the right shoulder, checked the speedometer just to make sure I wasn’t going to attract attention, and simply continued past.

Three or four minutes later came the flashing police lights right behind me.

What had I done?

I’d failed to move into the left lane in order to give the emergency vehicle a wide berth as I passed, the trooper explained.

* Zorn has more here

Though the law clearly says that the motorist should make a lane change “if possible with due regard to safety and traffic conditions,” the very, very stiff potential penalties make it quite chancy to use one’s best judgment.

It’s possible that rash, ill-advised lane changes in the vicinity of emergency vehicles will place both drivers and police/fire officers at greater risk.

Discuss.

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Beware Blagojevich bearing gifts

Tuesday, May 6, 2008 - Posted by Rich Miller

* The governor is planning one of his patented big, splashy press conferences today

Gov. Blagojevich is proposing a $150 million anti-violence initiative that would provide new state dollars for more teen jobs, after-school programs and community grants in high-crime areas.

The initiative, dubbed Community Investment Works, represents the governor’s first tangible response to the wave of shootings in the city that have left 24 Chicago Public School students murdered this school year.

Problem…

But the proposal faces an iffy future. Its funding sources haven’t been embraced by lawmakers.

Rep. Susana Mendoza (D-Chicago) said it is built upon wobbly funding sources like leasing the lottery and a state capital deal.

* This story reminds us what happens when you trust the governor’s claims that he has the solutions…

Long before Gov. Rod Blagojevich pushed the state toward universal health care last year, some 25,000 working-poor adults had health care subsidized by the state.

Now, following Blagojevich’s attempt to defy lawmakers and unilaterally implement his larger vision for health care, their coverage is at risk.

When the Blagojevich administration moved last November to expand health care to folks earning far more money than these 25,000 people, it used them as bargaining chips. When the administration ultimately failed to implement the governor’s larger program, it left health care for the 25,000 lesser-earning individuals in limbo.

* On a somewhat related note, one of the governor’s spokespersons gave a statement to the Sun-Times about this latest proposal. Other reporters haven’t been so lucky of late…

* Reporters on Monday asked the governor if any of Ata’s testimony was false, and Blagojevich said only that it’d be inappropriate for him to discuss the trial and that he’s focused on doing the people’s work.

* On Friday, I placed a series of questions by e-mail and phone with Annie Thompson, spokeswoman for the Illinois Department of Healthcare and Family Services. I still don’t have answers.

* The administration did not respond to phone calls and e-mails Monday asking for clarification on the change of heart.

* The governor’s office and the Illinois Department of Corrections did not immediately respond to requests for information

* The Blagojevich administration did not respond to calls or e-mails seeking comment.

* Blagojevich did consent to an interview on a cable access TV show for Serbian-Americans that runs Sunday nights from eleven to midnight. It wasn’t exactly a hard-hitting piece.

* Summation: Flashy program with no real funding source? We’ve got your answers. Gushy, softball questions from a fellow etnick? We’re all over it. Everything else? Don’t bother calling.

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Heads explode

Tuesday, May 6, 2008 - Posted by Rich Miller

* The Daily Herald, which editorialized in favor of permanently changing the Illinois Constitution to allow for the recall of elected officials editorializes today against impeaching Gov. Blagojevich, calling the remedy “extreme“…

And try to imagine an impeachment proceeding based on vague grounds. It would be the most hideous political circus in the state capital we’ve seen yet. It would accomplish little more than serve as a distraction lawmakers would love to have to get away from the harder work of actually governing the state. Blagojevich would get a well-deserved pounding from a long and loud impeachment proceeding — even as the axles of our cars would still be getting bent in potholes, public transportation would still be waiting at the station for more funding and our property taxes would still be going up.

Actually, a serious threat of instigating impeachment proceedings might hurry the session along a bit. But, whatever. Daily Herald: Hoplelessly dead recall proposal=Good; Possible remedy of impeachment=Bad.

* Meanwhile, the Champaign News-Gazette is frothing at the mouth in the wake of last week’s vote against recall

Whether by recall, impeachment, federal indictments or a constitutional convention, this level of disdain by elected officials for the public must not go unanswered.

But their solution can’t be implemented until the next leadership election in January, and probably won’t happen even then…

The real test is whether those Democrats, and others, are willing to offer an alternative leader to Jones and restore some semblance of respect and responsibility to the people and the government of Illinois.

* And the Lake County News-Sun has another idea: Elections

The Illinois Senate has become a place where democracy is derided to protect the interests of a powerful few, where representative government is mocked and scorned.

So yes, let’s remember this fall that we can still “recall” our elected officials via election.

Problem: Just two Senate Democrats who voted against the recall proposal face a challenger this fall. The rest either aren’t up for reelection, or the Republicans never bothered to slate candidates against them.

So, that won’t work, either.

To-morrow, and to-morrow, and to-morrow,
Creeps in this petty pace from day to day
To the last syllable of recorded time,
And all our yesterdays have lighted fools
The way to dusty death. Out, out, brief candle!
Life’s but a walking shadow, a poor player
That struts and frets his hour upon the stage
And then is heard no more: it is a tale
Told by an idiot, full of sound and fury,
Signifying nothing.

* By the way, the Senate has canceled today’s session….

With their former colleague [Barack Obama] vying for votes in neighboring Indiana, the Illinois Senate has called off work today, a move one Republican said is improper given Illinois’ lingering problems.

“I’m not sure that’s an appropriate reason to call off session with only a few short weeks to go, to send your camp over to Indiana to campaign. I don’t think that’s appropriate,” said Illinois Senate Republican leader Frank Watson of downstate Greenville.

The Senate Dems say Obama’s campaign was not the reason they aren’t returning to town until tomorrow, but they pulled the same thing on Ohio’s primary day.

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The city that works?

Tuesday, May 6, 2008 - Posted by Rich Miller

* Among City Hall insiders, O’Hare Airport is often referred to as “The Mayor’s Airport.” But Hizzoner’s airport has a problem

A WGN-TV investigation that aired Monday night uncovered an infestation of mice and rats throughout O’Hare’s Terminal One — even among food service and preparation areas.

Vleugel says she saw “dozens and dozens and dozens” of mice during her hours at O’Hare in March.

Karen Pride is a spokeswoman for the Chicago Department of Aviation. In a written statement, she says the agency maintains “an aggressive pest control program” at the airport and works with airlines and vendors to mitigate pests.

* You can watch the WGN report by clicking here. The intro…

They’re on the floor and in your food. One of Chicago’s busiest locations is dealing with a rat infestation, and it’s likely you’ve eaten here before.

Yuck.

Seriously.

Yuck.

* But, of course, Daley himself is far more concerned with the absolutely inane “problem” of the hatred of children by Chicagoans who live near Grant Park

Mayor Daley today accused opponents of his plan to build a new, $100 million Children’s Museum in Grant Park of engaging in political intimidation — a charge more frequently leveled against him.

It happened after the mayor was told that residents of high-rises surrounding Daley Bicentennial Plaza near Millennium Park were launching a petition drive to try and block the Grant Park plan.

“They’ll go start petition drives. They’re threatening everybody — your political life. They’re gonna defeat all aldermen. They’re gonna beat everybody in the world. But, one thing. Those children grow up and remember them,” the mayor said.

The opposition responds…

“It’s unbelievably ironic that the mayor is accusing us of intimidation. We’re just average citizens. Just because we disagree with him we’re the bad guys?” [said Peggy Figiel, co-founder of Save Grant Park.]

* Yep, rats and mice infesting O’Hare, potholes are so thick on Lake Shore Drive that it looks like the surface of the moon, a gang war that has claimed numerous lives, a crumbling CTA, taxes rising through the roof, and the thing that revs Daley’s motor more than anything is his goofy proposal to violate state law by putting a glorified McDonald’s Playland in Grant Park.

* Hey, mayor, if you want to save a museum, here’s one that’s about to go away. Maybe you could check into that.

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Morning Shorts

Tuesday, May 6, 2008 - Posted by Kevin Fanning

* Unconventional Wisdom - Scott Harper’s 13th Congressional Strategy

Scott Harper may be in a Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee (DCCC) “targeted race,” indicating that the party thinks he has a real chance of winning, but under traditional campaign standards one has to ask - is what he doing lunacy?

* Hare: Reducing veteran disability claims backlog, one step at a time

* Defense calls no witnesses, says case vs. Rezko weak

* Rezko trial testimony wraps up

* Prosecution rests; Rezko to present no defense witnesses

* I-PASS loophole allows some to escape fines

* Stateville to stay open; Pontiac prison to close

* Fight vowed over proposed Pontiac prison closure

* Group calls for control over Bronzeville development

* ‘I’m not bitter,’ says man who spent 26 years in prison for allegedly murdering a security guard

* Racial Disparities Found to Persist as Drug Arrests Rise

“The way the war on drugs has been pursued is one of the biggest reasons for the growing racial disparities in criminal justice over all,” said Ryan S. King, a policy analyst with the Sentencing Project, who wrote its report, which focuses on the differential arrest rates, not only between races but also among cities around the country.

* Cook County state’s attorney candidate Anita Alvarez blasts County Board for cutting prosecutor office’s budget

* CTA’s bumpy passage

* CTA sued over Grand Theft Auto ads

* CTA to add 18 routes to Bus Tracker system

* A year in review: Huberman’s first year at the helm

* Praise for dramatic gains in schools

* Pointless PSAE not improving education system

* Legislation will fix home wine brouhaha

* Uptown From Space

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