* The House Speaker’s office just issued a bulletin which includes this…

Wednesday, August 16

9 am Approp. Elementary and Sec. Education Committee Rm. 114

11 am House will convene floor session

Wednesday, August 16th would be Governor’s Day at the Illinois State Fair.

The Senate did the same thing in 2015.

Those guys really know how to kill a party. And it’ll be even worse for the governor if they run his AV on a separate bill and it goes down in flames.

*** UPDATE ***   I’m flashing back to the House floor vote on Rod Blagojevich’s Gross Receipts Tax. That one went down 107 to 0 with 7 voting “Present”…

But Illinois House Republican Leader Jim Durkin called the scheduling “no coincidence.”

“They just didn’t pick this date out of thin air. They know it’s Republican Day. I think the whole point is to create some type of controversy for the day. And this is old school. It comes out of the old playbook. We’ll deal with it,” Durkin said. […]

Brown said the House will be addressing a potential override of Rauner’s amendatory veto of the school funding bill, as well as a House amendment which replicates Rauner’s veto. That amendment was discussed during a lengthy House hearing on Wednesday morning in Chicago.

“We’ll look at the school funding situation. We’re probably going to look at both, the override and the amendment. A lot of it is up to the sponsors of Senate bill 1. So we’ll look at the amendment, see how things develop. There have been talks along the way. I think those are continuing.”

GRT background is here.