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President Cullerton: Quinn flip-flopped and killed the pension note bill
Tuesday, Jun 30, 2009 - Posted by Mike Murray * 8:45 pm - As we told you below, the pension note bill failed on its second try in the Senate. President Cullerton blamed the lack of support on Governor Quinn. After speaking in favor of the pension note bill during his address to the joint session of the GA, Quinn apparently contacted a handful of senators and asked them to vote against the bill. The pension bill actually received less yes votes the second time around. Roll call was 32-21-4-2. President Cullerton discusses the bill’s failure… The Senate has adjourned to the call of the Chair. *** UPDATE *** Sen. James Meeks, who helped organize opposition to the pension note bill, talks about what happens next, Speaker Madigan’s role in the process, and what he wants to happen now that the bill has failed. Good stuff, and that vote tonight shows he has some big leverage now…
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The House has adjourned
Tuesday, Jun 30, 2009 - Posted by Rich Miller * 7:45 pm - Speaker Madigan just adjourned the chamber and told members to prepare to come back to deal with Gov. Quinn’s budget veto overrides. He told a couple members of the press that he would be voting for those overrides. I’ll have Madigan press availability and adjournment speech video in about 20 minutes. * 8:05 pm - OK, here’s the avail vid. Madigan was asked at one point about the governor’s apparent habit of changing his mind. Worth a look… * Speaker Madigan adjourns the House and tells members what to expect…
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This just in… Guv to address joint session at 3:30 - Will speak to reporters at 4:30
Tuesday, Jun 30, 2009 - Posted by Rich Miller * 2:22 pm - Rep. Art Turner just announced on the House floor that the governor will address a joint session of the General Assembly at 3:30 pm. Listen or watch here. Liveblog in comments if you possibly can to help everybody else out. Thanks. The governor will not take questions from the chamber when he concludes his address, according to Turner. More…
* 2:35 pm - Leader Radogno: “There’s just not a lot of functional discussion going on … at all.” Watch it… * 3:30 pm- WUIS.org will have live coverage of Quinn’s address… * 3:42 pm Governor Quinn has entered the House Chamber and is currently addressing the joint session. 3:47 - Quinn offered to make an additional billion in cuts. Quinn said he would veto a partial budget and laid out his conditions. Quinn said he was prepared to stay all summer. Also, Gov. Quinn did a very curious thing today. He walked into the joint session, walked to the podium and didn’t shake the hands of the two Democratic legislative leaders at the podium with him. He then left without even acknowledging them. Here’s the video of his walk to the podium… Highly irregular. A sign? Maybe. But maybe also a sign that he’s a rookie and this was a spontaneous appearance. * 4:26 pm - Important context from Tribune…
Oy.
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Leaders meeting ends, no progress reported
Tuesday, Jun 30, 2009 - Posted by Rich Miller * 1:42 pm - Despite what I’m about to post, try not to panic. These end of session battles have ups and downs. Mainly downs. Expect more downs before it’s over, and when it’s over is anybody’s guess at the moment. From the Illinois Radio Network’s Melissa Hahn’s Twitter page…
Ben Yount of Metro Networks Tweeted this…
And here’s the video of Senate President John Cullerton and Quinn spokesman Bob Reed after the meeting… * The governor will apparently speak to the House Republicans at 2 o’clock. From GOP Rep. Roger Eddy’s Twitter page…
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*** UPDATED x3 *** Quinn hints at budget veto - Wants GA to stay in town *** Franks wants guv to hold off on capital plan *** Guv flip-flops on temp budget ***
Tuesday, Jun 30, 2009 - Posted by Rich Miller * 11:30 am - Gov. Pat Quinn just said that he wants the General Assembly to stay in town if they don’t pass a balanced budget today… Asked about a budget veto, Quinn said he would “send it back” if a budget came to him that wasn’t balanced. The governor also wouldn’t be pinned down on whether he will sign the capital bill now that the parliamentary holds have been removed, taking a not-so-subtle shot at Rep. Lou Lang in the process. More…
*** UPDATE - 11:56 am *** Here’s some video of GOP Leaders Cross and Radogno before today’s leaders meeting taken from another reporter’s video. Cross complained about how the Democrats are continuing to shut the Republicans out of the process… And SEIU is holding another Statehouse rally today protesting the budget meltdown… *** UPDATE 2 - 12:16 pm *** Democratic Rep. Jack Franks, a possible attorney general candidate, says the governor shouldn’t sign the capital bill yet because it’s funded by video gaming… *** UPDATE 3 - 12:20 pm *** As I told subscribers this morning, the governor has flip-flopped yet again. This time, on a temporary budget, which he has totally ruled out for weeks…
[ *** End of Updates *** ] * Related…
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Quote of the day - Lisa Madigan, Dick Cheney and Osama bin Laden
Tuesday, Jun 30, 2009 - Posted by Rich Miller * From yesterday’s Chicago Tonight, Mike Flannery says Attorney General Lisa Madigan is “tougher to find maybe than Cheny and Osama bin Laden combined.” Watch it… Flannery and the other reporters on the panel were discussing my recent syndicated newspaper column about how LMadigan has refused to say where she stands on the budget issues facing the state. [Via Progress Illinois.]
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