The life of a perpetual target
Tuesday, Jun 20, 2017 - Posted by Rich Miller
* Gatehouse…
[Rep. Sue Scherer, D-Decatur] also complained about the “huge tax hike” that would be part of either side’s plan.
“I’m all about doing a budget, but I’m not about doing it on the backs of the hard-working families in my district,” she said.
Instead of a general tax hike, Scherer said she wants more revenue to come from closing business tax breaks and enacting a surcharge on incomes above $1 million.
Hillary Clinton won Scherer’s district by less than two points. Bruce Rauner won it by 6.
So, she ain’t voting for no general tax hike this year.
* But that isn’t stopping the Republicans. Finke…
Just before Republicans laid out their plan and Rauner called the special session, the Illinois Republican Party sent mailers into Democratic districts blasting the Democratic lawmakers for supporting “their plan.”
Among the criticisms was that “their plan” included a massive income tax hike and no property tax relief. Really? The only plan that’s out there, which passed the Senate, has a 2-year property tax freeze that got the votes of a few Senate Republicans. It’s true, it is a 2-year rather than a 4-year freeze, but it is relief. Sen. Sue Rezin, R-Morris, used that term when she voted for it.
And the massive income tax increase? Presumably that is the tax increase approved by the Senate that both Rauner and several Republican lawmakers now say they might support if certain conditions are met. […]
By the way, one of those mailers went into the district of Rep. Sue Scherer of Decatur.
She’s a Democrat, so it fits the Republican narrative that all Democrats are in Madigan’s pocket. The thing is, though, Scherer doesn’t support the tax hike. Or as she put it, she doesn’t support a revenue plan to balance the budget if it means “doing it on the backs of the hardworking people of my district.”
So the mailer is accusing Scherer of supporting a tax hike she doesn’t support.
- JPC - Tuesday, Jun 20, 17 @ 2:47 pm:
She can also get another job if she finds this sort of thing distasteful. This goes for Rauner and everyone else.
- VanillaMan - Tuesday, Jun 20, 17 @ 2:48 pm:
Screw facts and details, if she’s not with us, she’s the devil’s lapdog, according to the minority party out of power and itching to remain there.
Why go positive when you can go negative and scare people?
- Chicago Cynic - Tuesday, Jun 20, 17 @ 2:51 pm:
You mean the Rauner machine was being dishonest???? Say it isn’t so.
- VanillaMan - Tuesday, Jun 20, 17 @ 2:52 pm:
Fear and chaos, ooda loops and lies. as Rauner libels Illinois as a banana republic.
- RNUG - Tuesday, Jun 20, 17 @ 2:52 pm:
== Why go positive when you can go negative and scare people? ==
Up to a point, it’s easier to sell negatives.
- Chicagonk - Tuesday, Jun 20, 17 @ 3:13 pm:
Reps like Scherer survive by repeatedly washing their hands of anything the state has ever done. I’m sure she doesn’t want to cut funding either. Not sure why Finke is going out of the way to give her cover.
- Oswego Willy - Tuesday, Jun 20, 17 @ 3:15 pm:
===Not sure why Finke is going out of the way to give her cover.===
… because the phony “attacks” are downright ridiculous?
Pretty good story.
- Chicagonk - Tuesday, Jun 20, 17 @ 3:20 pm:
OW - They might be ridiculous, but just as ridiculous is Scherer’s fantasyland approach to budgeting.
- Oswego Willy - Tuesday, Jun 20, 17 @ 3:22 pm:
- Chicagonk -
You asked…
===Not sure why Finke is going out of the way to give her cover.===
I answered…
===… because the phony “attacks” are downright ridiculous===
It makes a good newspaper story.
It’s just as simple as that
- Amalia - Tuesday, Jun 20, 17 @ 3:23 pm:
Who has been fired up to run against Rs so far? Yes Madiganland is in full metal Saturday morning meeting mode.
- Anonymous - Tuesday, Jun 20, 17 @ 3:26 pm:
Representative Scherer has voted for budgets in the past that were grossly out of balanced and wouldn’t support the tax increase or cuts needed to balance it. Every election year we hear from her about a notebook filled with places to cut. I’d love to see that.
- Ryan - Tuesday, Jun 20, 17 @ 3:33 pm:
This state needs a graduated income tax, plain and simple.
- Formerly of the 96th - Tuesday, Jun 20, 17 @ 5:49 pm:
Any chance Tony DelGiorno might consider moving into the 96th and challenge Scherer in the March primary?
His Sangamon County Board district #22 includes one precinct that’s in Scherer’s district: Capitol 50 (Vinegar Hill neighborhood southwest of the Capitol complex, including where Bernie and Betty’s Pizza is located).
I think DelGiorno would have a chance to unseat Scherer in the primary if he makes that move–and would easily be elected in the general.