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Friday, Sep 11, 2015 - Posted by Rich Miller * The House and Senate are both out of town next week, so I’m gonna take some time off. See you on the flip side… Yes, I’m fumbling and I know my car don’t start.
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Exelon Just Received A $1.7 Billion Rate Increase Through The Market-Based Capacity Auction
Friday, Sep 11, 2015 - Posted by Advertising Department [The following is a paid advertisement.] The final results are in and as many analysts have noted, “Exelon was the big winner in this year’s [PJM grid capacity} auction.” Here are the highlights:
Exelon’s Low Carbon Portfolio Standard would have raised $1.6 billion over 5 ½ years for Exelon. The Capacity markets, under Exelon-pushed rules, earned Exelon $1.7 billion over only three years. Illinois doesn’t have a balanced budget, service providers are being decimated and real people across Illinois are hurting. It’s time for Exelon to take their HUGE $1.7 BILLION WINDFALL and stop asking legislators to keep padding their profits. Enough is enough!Just Say “NO” to the Exelon Bailout BEST Coalition is a 501C4 nonprofit group of dozens of business, consumer and government groups, as well as large and small businesses. Visit www.noexelonbailout.com.
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Question of the day
Friday, Sep 11, 2015 - Posted by Rich Miller * From the BND…
* The Question: Do you support a limited restoration of the death penalty? Take the poll and then explain your answer in comments, please. customer survey
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Today’s number: 2,744,578 views
Friday, Sep 11, 2015 - Posted by Rich Miller * Video of State Rep. Litesa Wallace’s floor speech last week defending the state’s child care assistance program has gone truly viral, with over 2.7 million views on Facebook and more than 129,000 shares. …Adding… Rep. Wallace’s speech followed Rep. Ives’ address… Thanks to a commenter for the linky.
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Dold’s rationale
Friday, Sep 11, 2015 - Posted by Rich Miller * GOP Congressman Bob Dold won during two off-year elections and lost during a presidential election. He recently told the Daily Herald why he will win in the upcoming presidential year…
Thoughts?
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Destroying our infrastructure
Friday, Sep 11, 2015 - Posted by Rich Miller
That’s one of the least noticed aspects of this impasse. Good people, well-trained people just can’t deal with the financial stress and leave to find other jobs or don’t wait around to be re-hired. And it’s expensive and time consuming to replace them. We really are destroying our not-for-profit infrastructure one group at a time. * More from the article…
And her cash savings will run out in October. How we expect these folks - who perform jobs that most of us wouldn’t ever go near - to operate under such conditions is literally beyond me. * Related…
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LaHood react
Friday, Sep 11, 2015 - Posted by Rich Miller * From Congressman-elect Darin LaHood…
* PJStar…
* National Republican Congressional Committee Chairman Greg Walden…
* IL GOP Chairman Tim Schneider…
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This is why so many of us love Frankie Mautino
Friday, Sep 11, 2015 - Posted by Rich Miller * Rep. Frank Mautino shared some good news this week with his local newspaper about his cancer treatments…
* And the guy truly is all class…
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When “significant progress” means “no progress”
Friday, Sep 11, 2015 - Posted by Rich Miller * Gov. Bruce Rauner was asked yesterday if there’s been any movement toward wrapping up this overtime session…
Really? That would be news to me. He went on to say…
Wow. That would be huge news. * But…
So, not only has there been no significant progress, there’s been no progress at all. But that’s by far the best lede I’ve seen all summer, so we have that going for us.
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Illinois Credit Unions – A Model of Kindness
Friday, Sep 11, 2015 - Posted by Advertising Department [The following is a paid advertisement.] As part of their commitment to community service, the credit union movement as a whole supports countless local charitable activities as evidenced by their fundamental philosophy of “People Helping People.” For credit unions in Illinois, this mantra is not just part of their culture - it’s a lifestyle. As an example, the $12 million Danville Bell Credit Union for the past two years has lived out a local campaign of paying it forward. This initiative has included performing numerous random acts of kindness, such as paying for groceries, shoes for school kids whose families could not otherwise afford, meals, and renewing a gym membership for an area firefighter. This generosity has spread tremendous goodwill throughout the community, helped people through temporary financial difficulties, and also inspired other credit unions and members to return the favor for others. In one touching interaction, the credit union filled the gas tank for a college student who, as it turned out, happened to be down to her last $20. Illinois credit unions are not just employees - they’re your neighbors, they raise their families here, they’re your trusted financial partner. To them, kindness is not only a guiding principle, its woven into their DNA.
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Dunkin: “If this governor wants to work with me, I’m working with him”
Friday, Sep 11, 2015 - Posted by Rich Miller * ABC 7’s Charles Thomas interviewed Rep. Ken Dunkin yesterday about missing last week’s crucial session day. Thomas reported that other Black Caucus members he talked with yesterday said they were angry at Dunkin for staying in New York rather than coming back to the Statehouse and doing his job. Nonetheless, Thomas led his story with this line: “Illinois Democrats are worried that state Rep. Ken Dunkin’s independence could be contagious, especially among African-American lawmakers.” Thomas also quoted Chicago consultant and Dunkin ally Maze Jackson as saying “When one guy breaks off the plantation, it’s gotta make a lot of people in Springfield nervous, real nervous.” Dunkin, for his part, told Thomas that he was looking for ways to find common ground with Gov. Rauner. “If this governor wants to work with me, I’m working with him,” Dunkin said. And the governor told Thomas that he and Dunkin “share a passion around economic empowerment, especially in the black community.” “Today is the time that we have to take charge of our own destiny here,” Dunkin told Thomas about black legislators. * By the way, Rep. Dunkin did not take listener questions when he appeared on WVON Radio earlier this week, but after he left the air some folks called in to vent their displeasure with the Democrat for working with Rauner. Yes, Speaker Madigan is unpopular in that district (as he is pretty much everywhere), but Rauner scored less than 20 percent of the vote in Dunkin’s district during last year’s general election, and he is not a popular guy in Chicago and likely not with black, Democratic primary voters, either - hence the attempt to make this about Dunkin’s rejection of “plantation politics.”
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