* Yesterday, Gov. Pat Quinn claimed during the debate that Bill Brady had admitted his budget cutting plan for schools would raise local property taxes. Reporters asked him about his remarks after the debate and Quinn referred to a comment made by Brady at the State Fair. We posted that video back then. Here’s the relevant excerpt…

Eric Zorn provides us with a transcript…

REPORTER: How do you cut 10 percent out of school budgets or education money and not fire people?

BRADY: The local school districts will make those decisions.

REPORTER: And where do they get the money?

BRADY: Maybe they’ll have to forego some pay raises

REPORTER: Is that enough? If they’re getting 10 percent less money?

BRADY: We’re trying to drill down and see what the average pay raises are within those those things. So maybe they’ll have to make some decisions like the private sector’s made.

REPORTER: Like raising property taxes

BRADY: No

REPORTER: So less money for schools, but no layoffs but no property tax increases for them to operate?

BRADY: Well, there are some natural property tax increases that will go into effect. I mean, if you drill down to education funding the state of Illinois provides less than a third, OK? So that would be a cut of less than 2.5 percent by what we defined as our budget. I think if you look at pay raises and you look at some other things, there are various options at the local level. I will ask them to be responsible as we have to be.

* WBEZ political reporter Sam Hudzik provided his take of the debate yesterday. You can go to WBEZ’s website or watch the YouTube clip I made…

* And here is the ABC7 report on the debate from Charles Thomas…

* Lots more debate videos and a full news roundup were posted yesterday, in case you missed them.

* MSNBC asked Alexi Giannoulias yesterday about the Tribune’s latest story. WGN ran an excerpt from his appearance in New York and had some more analysis. Watch…

 

* I posted Gov. Quinn’s new campaign ads yesterday, but they were both posted late so not all of you may have seen them. Here’s the positive ad…

And Quinn’s negative ad…