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*** UPDATED x1 - Stand down *** No poison pills, please
Thursday, Aug 6, 2015 - Posted by Rich Miller * From the governor’s press conference…
The governor apparently got a phone call from Mayor Emanuel last night giving him a heads up that the House Democrats were going to add $200 million for CPS pension payments to the federal funding appropriations bill. The Rauner team then notified the Republican legislative leaders and everybody has a thumbs down on the bill. A spokesman for the House Speaker said he wasn’t aware of any such plans. A source close to Madigan says there’s been no final decision. Madigan said yesterday that he would amend the bill, but indicated it would only include suggestions (from agencies and the governor’s office) for federal funding lines missing in the Senate’s bill. They really need to keep that bill as clean as possible. *** UPDATE *** Steve Brown just called and said he asked the Speaker about this rumor and Madigan said he didn’t know anything about it. “That’s news to us.” Everybody needs to just calm the heck down and take a breath before firing at each other.
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- All the answers - Thursday, Aug 6, 15 @ 2:16 pm:
Two peas in a pod. Rahm Emanuel and Bruce Rauner.
- phocion - Thursday, Aug 6, 15 @ 2:17 pm:
==They really need to keep that bill as clean as possible.==
But they can’t help themselves.
- Liberty - Thursday, Aug 6, 15 @ 2:25 pm:
They both believe a crisis should be exploited.
- Anonymous - Thursday, Aug 6, 15 @ 2:29 pm:
Don’t get greedy and ruin a good thing. Everyone is on board. Keep this bill clean.
- Precinct Captain - Thursday, Aug 6, 15 @ 2:31 pm:
The governor is willing to tank the authority to spend federal dollars because of an unconfirmed rumor?
- Rod - Thursday, Aug 6, 15 @ 2:31 pm:
Why in the world would Mayor Emanuel make that phone call? I think the Governor’s legislative team would have seen it as soon as the amendment was filed. Did he think it would cause the Governor to reconsider his position on SB 318 or what?
- Anon - Thursday, Aug 6, 15 @ 2:41 pm:
It doesn’t need to be a clean bill.
The Governor can line item veto the portion of the appropriations bill he does not like allowing for the federal funding to go through and requiring him to completely own the lack of support for Chicago.
Or, he can veto the whole thing requiring the house and senate to vote to override, which will not allow them to remove the language for Chicago.
I don’t understand why anyone should expect the leadership of a legislature that has been verbally abused on official letter head and in the press to do the Governor a decent.
Let the governor learn how to line item veto, or let the Republicans legislators own being against funding for social services.
Writing snarky letters has consequences. I hope the language is included.
- All the answers - Thursday, Aug 6, 15 @ 2:53 pm:
It seems more and more like Rauner’s people are just starting and spreading rumors so they can hold press conferences and wring their hands. Rauner is sounding more and more like the Man Who Cried Wolf.
- Norseman - Thursday, Aug 6, 15 @ 2:59 pm:
Da Mayor tattles to the Chief about Chief pulling a fast one and then the Chief cries to Chrissy Minion and Jimmy Minion that a Chief is going to mess in the sandbox.
Can’t we all get along!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BAomAwIwxm8
- Tournaround Agenda - Thursday, Aug 6, 15 @ 3:00 pm:
If this had actually happened, couldn’t the governor appropriate the federal funds and AV the CPS money?
- MrJM - Thursday, Aug 6, 15 @ 3:01 pm:
“Everybody needs to just calm the heck down and take a breath before firing at each other.”
If only the goal were to govern the state competently, rather than merely to win today’s news-cycle.
– MrJM
- Concerned - Thursday, Aug 6, 15 @ 3:15 pm:
Did that call really happen? If so, maybe someone put some chum in the water near Rahm so that someone could see what Rahm would do with it. Rahm took the bait and called Rauner. Test of trust and loyalty completed.
- Politix - Thursday, Aug 6, 15 @ 3:24 pm:
The drama created here with a second press conference over a single phone call without any research or further discussion with others is woefully unprofessional.
I read something recently in which Bruce had used the term “sausage making.” I remember thinking that he doesn’t actually understand what that is. Or participate in it at all. And the way his press shop kneejerks these little fires day in and day out for no apparent reason reveals a lot about how they operate. I don’t think the general public is interested in every little detail of these negotiations. Cut the drama. Do your job. It’s OK to have a meeting and not make a public comment about it. Participate in the meeting, go back to your desk and THINK. What can you do to get closer to an agreement that serves EVERYONE in Illinois, and that includes Chicagoans.
We deserve so much better than this.
- C'mon! - Thursday, Aug 6, 15 @ 3:24 pm:
What the heck is going on here? He holds a press conference to spread vague rumors about phantom amendments and then claims some anonymous city “leader” has asked for collective bargaining reforms. Is this guy a governor or a gossipy high school sophomore?
- Juvenal - Thursday, Aug 6, 15 @ 3:56 pm:
“It is only the enlightened ruler and the wise general who will use the highest intelligence of the army for the purposes of spying, and thereby they achieve great results.”
Sun Tzu, The Art of War
- A guy - Thursday, Aug 6, 15 @ 4:01 pm:
===They really need to keep that bill as clean as possible.===
The guy who “dirties” it better to be willing to pay a very high price.
I think we’ll see a very clean, if not, darn near anti-septic effort on this one.
- Anonin' - Thursday, Aug 6, 15 @ 4:32 pm:
Lookin’ like TeamBungle gettin’ calls from imaginary friends…lets get back to the budget
- VanillaMan - Thursday, Aug 6, 15 @ 4:46 pm:
If you keep calling your opponent corrupt, eventually you will begin to start believing yourself and every rumor about them being corrupt.
- Wensicia - Thursday, Aug 6, 15 @ 5:03 pm:
I think Emanuel is supposed to be on WTTW Chicago Tonight. It should be interesting.
- Juvenal - Thursday, Aug 6, 15 @ 5:29 pm:
Now we know why everyone stands back fifty yards at the shooting range when Rauner has a loaded shotgun.
Man, this guy spooks easily.
No wonder McPier just saw their ratings dip. Investors want a steady hand on the wheel, not Yosemite Sam.
- Anonymous - Thursday, Aug 6, 15 @ 6:45 pm:
“Writing snarky letters has consequences”? Is this jr high?
- burbanite - Thursday, Aug 6, 15 @ 8:14 pm:
Based on history, it is very possible the phone call was just in his head.
- Anonymous - Friday, Aug 7, 15 @ 6:14 am:
Another phantom phone call that happened? When the adults get here let me know.
- burbanite - Friday, Aug 7, 15 @ 9:07 am:
@Wensiscia http://chicagotonight.wttw.com/2015/08/06/mayor-emanuel-responds-rauners-challenge