Some legislators called out on budget votes
Tuesday, Jul 4, 2017 - Posted by Rich Miller
* We talked yesterday about the 10 House Democrats and 1 Republican who voted against the tax hike and for the budget. Here’s Marni Pyke at the Daily Herald…
Suburban Democrats who voted for the budget bill but against raising taxes included Marty Moylan of Des Plaines, Michelle Mussman of Schaumburg, and Sam Yingling of Grayslake.
Assists from the 15 Republicans gave Democrats in volatile districts leeway to defect. But Moylan and Yingling said any legislation without property tax reforms was a nonstarter.
If a property tax freeze had been included, “maybe it would have made a difference,” said Moylan, a former Des Plaines mayor. “I don’t want to raise taxes on the middle class and working class. This could hurt job creation.”
Yingling is concerned about the state’s bond rating tanking but hoped negotiations will continue between Rauner and party leaders for a resolution.
“Regressive property taxes are forcing people out of their homes,” Yingling said. “As long as they stay in place they’ll continue to struggle.”
The lone Republican to do the same thing, Rep. Dave Severin, was not asked about his votes by local media. Instead, they focused solely on his “No” vote on the tax hike.
* Without endorsing either the tax hike or the budget, the Tribune editorial board railed against all 11 members…
Voters, take note: The 10 Democrats and one Republican who voted against the tax hike but in favor of spending have to be held accountable to their own endless rhetoric about the need to pass honest budgets.
Remember, Democrats control this process in both houses. They have been the party insisting for years the budget could not be balanced through spending reductions alone. Higher taxes had to be part of the equation: Illinois can’t possibly cut its way out of this mess … Until Sunday, that is, when 10 of them slithered away from their party’s long-held position.
They’re hoping you won’t notice their double talk. We hope you will. It’s called hypocrisy.
- Workin' - Tuesday, Jul 4, 17 @ 9:46 am:
Still waiting for tronc’s editorial on the hypocrisy of a governor who has yet to propose revenue sufficient for three spending plans in a row.
- Anonymous - Tuesday, Jul 4, 17 @ 9:47 am:
Another Cat 5 Hurricane McQueary joint from the Tribune. The giveway was the okaaaaay and use of the word slither. Someone needs to lockdown their cooler o’ haterade.
- Just Sayin - Tuesday, Jul 4, 17 @ 9:47 am:
Not uncommon for pols in tight districts to be allowed to save face in votes like this.
- Lt Guv - Tuesday, Jul 4, 17 @ 9:49 am:
I sent my Representative, David Harris a note of thanks today. I’m a lifelong D, but he earned my vote going forward.
- Rich Miller - Tuesday, Jul 4, 17 @ 9:51 am:
===Still waiting for tronc’s editorial on the hypocrisy of a governor who has yet to propose revenue sufficient===
And you’ll keep waiting. Those goofs called people who objected to that habit of his “Poindexters.”
- Grand Avenue - Tuesday, Jul 4, 17 @ 9:57 am:
DPI always uses Republicans voting against their budgets to say “Rep X voted against funding for domestic violence shelters” (they did it to McAuliffe last year for instance) so I wonder if these Dems were worried IRP would do the same against them.
- Moe Berg - Tuesday, Jul 4, 17 @ 10:05 am:
Although the news reporting can sometimes be sensationalized, shallow or stretched to try to reach a predetermined conclusion, especially the “investigations,” solid work is still done by Trib writers. The editorial board is morally and intellectually bankrupt.
Thanks to the ed board, the Trib is like locating a decent, though not superb, restaurant next to a garbage dump with an open sewer flowing through it.
- Ranger Nation - Tuesday, Jul 4, 17 @ 10:07 am:
Mr. Severin was just covering both bases. Voting for a budget way out of balance and against a tax hike. At least he didn’t cut and run from this vote! He always has talked out of both sides of his mouth like a true politician!
- Moe Berg - Tuesday, Jul 4, 17 @ 10:09 am:
And, to continue the analogy, that’s not a restaurant I’ll be patronizing. Change locations by becoming rational and I’ll definitely reconsider.
- Pelonski - Tuesday, Jul 4, 17 @ 10:09 am:
The Tribune editorial makes no sense. If these representatives were “slithering” away from “their party’s long-held position” that the budget couldn’t be balanced with cuts alone, the hypocritical thing to do would be to vote for a budget which solved the problem only with cuts.
- AnonymousOne - Tuesday, Jul 4, 17 @ 10:11 am:
Don’t want to raise taxes on the middle and working class? What a load. And a laugh.
Is there some other group of people who are ever targeted to pay more?
- Pelonski - Tuesday, Jul 4, 17 @ 10:15 am:
While I don’t typically support politicians who vote for spending without the means to pay for it, I think it is important to understand that budget bill on its own is still better than doing nothing since it will significantly cut back on our current level of spending.
- Chicago 20 - Tuesday, Jul 4, 17 @ 10:23 am:
If anyone is an expert on hypocrisy it is the Chicago Tribune.
- jim - Tuesday, Jul 4, 17 @ 10:32 am:
why is it hypocritical to challenge those who vote against taxes but for spending.
The Trib couldn’t be more correct and those who say otherwise are just lashing out blindly because the Trib has rightly been critical of Speaker Madigan.
- atsuishin - Tuesday, Jul 4, 17 @ 10:40 am:
==They’re hoping you won’t notice their double talk. We hope you will. It’s called hypocrisy.==
The 15 republicans including andersson need to explain the hypocrisy as well. Why did they hold up the budget for 2 years only to bow to madigan and support a budget quinn and madigan would have supported two years ago.
- Lucky Pierre - Tuesday, Jul 4, 17 @ 10:41 am:
Except Rauner said he would support revenue with property tax reform. Looks like there are more than a few elected Democrats who agree with
- wordslinger - Tuesday, Jul 4, 17 @ 10:41 am:
The trönclodytes edit raises the question: is lack of self-awareness a blessing or a curse?
They’re the print version of Fox and Friends in the Morning.
- @MisterJayEm - Tuesday, Jul 4, 17 @ 10:52 am:
“The trönclodytes edit raises the question: is lack of self-awareness a blessing or a curse?”
A blessing — Shamelessness is a political superpower.
– MrJM
- wordslinger - Tuesday, Jul 4, 17 @ 11:34 am:
Jim, you’re choosing to ignore the hypocrisy of the trönclodytes railing against hypocrisy.
Their dishonest tantrums have ranged from “all of Rauner’s proposed budgets were balanced” to “only Pointdexters care about balanced budgets.”
Consistent or honest, they’re not. Appeals to grievances and ignorance, not facts or reason, are their weapons.
They’re reactionary partisan zealots, a faction of the crew that Rep. Bryant warned wants to burn the state down (in order to save it, of course.)
- RNUG - Tuesday, Jul 4, 17 @ 11:39 am:
== Except Rauner said he would support revenue with property tax reform. ==
Then why hasn’t Rauner proposed the only true property tax reform, swapping more State school.support (and the required tax hike just for that) in exchange for s forced reduction of the school portion of the property tax?
- James Knell - Tuesday, Jul 4, 17 @ 12:04 pm:
Tronc deserves it’s own John Stewart. After the last few years, there is a market.
- Canon - Tuesday, Jul 4, 17 @ 12:08 pm:
Violence and threats should never be tolerated. The challenge facing the GOP who voted for the tax hike is how to reconnect, authentically, with voters after spending millions of rauner $$ sending mailers and running ads saying you would never raise taxes.
- Oswego Willy - Tuesday, Jul 4, 17 @ 12:18 pm:
The Tribune Editorial Board isn’t about logic or thoughtfulness.
The Tribune Editorial Board is about an Agenda, like Rauner, and that Agenda will trump any thoughtfulness or institutional knowledge.
Ignoring that institutional knowledge has been the biggest shame, @StatehouseChick included
- anon2 - Tuesday, Jul 4, 17 @ 12:44 pm:
=== why is it hypocritical to challenge those who vote against taxes but for spending. ===
Why? Because you want to spend money the State wouldn’t have without the $5 billion in new revenue, that’s why. You won’t take the risk of voting to raise the revenue you are eager to spend. But you’re happy to get credit for the spending that wouldn’t be possible without the tax hike. In short, you want others to do the heavy lifting for you.