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Stop the presses!!!
Monday, Aug 6, 2018 - Posted by Rich Miller * Press release…
* Trust me, I know all too well that political news is ultra-slow these days. It’s like pulling teeth out there. But after a pretty good run, the BGA’s fact-checking is really going small-ball lately, despite its bold claim that we’re in “the most important Illinois election season in a generation.” Remember its recent full-bore, no-snark investigation into an off-hand remark on a St. Louis radio station by Gov. Rauner’s lt. governor? They followed that barn-burner up with an oh-so-serious deep dive into an off-the-cuff remark by JB Pritzker’s running mate on a southern Illinois radio station. And now this…
Guess what? Illinois doesn’t have the most educated workforce in the entire nation. But since there’s no way to measure “the most educated, dedicated workforce,” the BGA chose to just skip over the word “dedicated.” Anyway, I wonder how the governor’s campaign will respond to this revelation. Suggestions?
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- 47th Ward - Monday, Aug 6, 18 @ 12:49 pm:
===I wonder how the governor’s campaign will respond to this revelation?===
Taxes, Madigan, corrupt, toilets.
- Anon0091 - Monday, Aug 6, 18 @ 12:51 pm:
The guy who wants to be governor is bragging about our state and slightly exaggerated our virtues. Heaven forfend.
After four years of our chief exec bashing his own state every chance he got, methinks Pritzker will be on the winning end of this one. We need a salesperson-in-chief for our state. Rauner never got that. Pritzker clearly does.
- BlueDogDem - Monday, Aug 6, 18 @ 12:52 pm:
Why is this the most important Illinois election in a decade?
- Anon0091 - Monday, Aug 6, 18 @ 12:53 pm:
47, I hate those corrupt toilets! Always asking for more…more…more…
- Rich Miller - Monday, Aug 6, 18 @ 12:54 pm:
===in a decade===
Correction: In a generation.
I rate your blog comment “Mostly False.”
lol
- Anonish - Monday, Aug 6, 18 @ 12:57 pm:
“So BGA, are you calling our state’s workers stupid?”
- Grandson of Man - Monday, Aug 6, 18 @ 12:58 pm:
“Illinoisans are smart and talented, so that’s why Illinois and Chicago rank high in Site Selection magazine for corporate relocations. But Illinois is terrible for business and we can’t attract companies, thanks to Madigan and corrupt insiders.”
- Anonish - Monday, Aug 6, 18 @ 1:00 pm:
“If our state’s public education system had the funding they needed to be effective, if we did not have any worker’s compensation laws, froze property taxes, and put in place right to work maybe our work force would the most educated. Unfortunately this is just another insider lie from Madigan’s stooge JB Pritzker. Oh and toilets.”
- Rich Miller - Monday, Aug 6, 18 @ 1:02 pm:
===how the governor’s campaign will respond===
“As the BGA has so ably shown, the governor was right all along. Illinois sucks.”
- Annonin' - Monday, Aug 6, 18 @ 1:04 pm:
About 6 weeks about a New York based AP reporter said she was about to head to SPI to be “fact checker” It was suggested that perhaps it would better to come and do some reportin’. Never heard from again. Once upon a time there were 2 wire services with multiple reporters.
There are some of us who don’t have a little confidence with dark money lobby groups bein’ a fact checker”
- Saluki - Monday, Aug 6, 18 @ 1:04 pm:
“Rich Miller opposes Better Government.”
C.K. (out of retirement just for this special occasion.
- Da Big Bad Wolf - Monday, Aug 6, 18 @ 1:18 pm:
Being dedicated isn’t so good if it’s not by choice. We need to ban noncompete clauses. Noncompete clauses are damaging to the economy and suppress wages.
- wordslinger - Monday, Aug 6, 18 @ 1:28 pm:
–Taxes, Madigan, corrupt, toilets.–
The obvious next step: Corrupt toilets.
- City Zen - Monday, Aug 6, 18 @ 1:31 pm:
CS-T will still be around come election time?
- DuPage - Monday, Aug 6, 18 @ 1:40 pm:
Illinois has/HAD a fairly well educated workforce partly due to many good community colleges, and good state universities. Rauner has done a lot of damage to them by not funding them with his no-budget games. It will take decades to recover from the Rauner-inflicted damage, and it will be an uphill battle all the way. Inadequate budgets and tier 2 pensions will make the best potential employees accept positions in other states. Thus we face a pending brain drain of not only students but faculty as well.
- Rich Miller - Monday, Aug 6, 18 @ 1:55 pm:
===The obvious next step===
And then taxing corrupt Madigan toilets (exclamation point)
- VanillaMan - Monday, Aug 6, 18 @ 2:09 pm:
Rauner’s superstars rarely exhibit political deftness, so they’ll blurt out something about how there should be a gun referendum somewhere in Illinois.
- Anonymous - Monday, Aug 6, 18 @ 2:55 pm:
It doesn’t matter how Rauner responds…does it?
#BlueTsunami
- blue dog dem - Monday, Aug 6, 18 @ 3:12 pm:
Correction noted. Generation. Why? it seems to imply that one of the two parties has all the answers. If Rauner pulls off the upset will he get the green light on his TA? If Pritzker wins will he get the green light on a progressive income tax? Will either candidate shut out the opposition party’s best ideas?
All elections are important. In my neck of the woods, school board elections have the biggest impact on my taxes. Last election. 13% turnout..
- M - Monday, Aug 6, 18 @ 6:20 pm:
All elections are important, but this one is the most important election for Congressional offices, etc..
- Roland the Headless Thompson Gunner - Tuesday, Aug 7, 18 @ 7:54 am:
The BGA has been small-ball for some time — more interested in going after that skeevy township assessor or deputy director of weights & measures than after real power. Their “exposes” inevitably fall into the ‘who cares?’ category.
- Da Big Bad Wolf - Tuesday, Aug 7, 18 @ 11:04 am:
I don’t know how the governor will react outside of what’s been mentioned above, Madian, corruption, toilets, etc.
How he SHOULD react is to suppliment Pritzker’s comment saying not only is Illinois tenth place in the US for advanced degrees, we have many skilled trades people as well.