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* UPDATED x1 - FY18 bills filed * Get out your checkbook, Mr. Mayor

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Mayor Rahm Emanuel mocked Gov. Bruce Rauner in a lengthy rant Thursday, saying he would donate $1,000 to charity if a reporter could provide evidence the governor has presented a full state budget plan while in office.

“I’ve asked the Police Department to get the hound dogs out to go find it. I’m giving you a thousand dollars to the charity of your choice. Find me the governor’s budget,” Emanuel said after a reporter asked him to comment on Rauner’s spending plan. “Produce it, line by line, like every chief executive has to do.

“I’ll stand here, with bathroom breaks, until you produce it,” Emanuel said during a five-minute dissection of what he said were Rauner’s shortcomings as a chief executive. “No. Because you’re asking me to comment on something that doesn’t exist.”

* If you watch the video in that story above, the mayor also says this…

There is no budget line-by-line. He hasn’t produced one in three years. Three budget presentations. It does not exist.

He’s right that the governor hasn’t yet put his FY 18 proposal into bill form. But Rauner has had appropriations bills introduced in the past. Click here for the FY 17 bills and click here for the FY 16 bills.

Those are full state appropriations plans. Line-by-line. They’re not balanced, but they’re full.

* The mayor should make his $1000 check payable to Lutheran Social Services of Illinois.

Now, how about everyone get back to work?

*** UPDATE *** The FY18 appropriations package has been introduced. Click here.

posted by Rich Miller
Friday, Feb 17, 17 @ 12:50 pm

Comments

How Trumpian. “I was given that information….”

Twenty seconds on the google and he would not have made a fool of himself.

I wonder which staffer will get thrown under the bus for it.

Comment by wordslinger Friday, Feb 17, 17 @ 12:55 pm
On behalf of LSSI, thank you, Mr. Mayor.

Comment by Commonsense in Illinois Friday, Feb 17, 17 @ 1:03 pm
Rich, you did produce the evidence Rahm was asking for. Maybe he should have been more circumspect and precise in his choice of words.

Good for LSSI.

Comment by illini Friday, Feb 17, 17 @ 1:33 pm
youtube.com JFK to 911 Everything is a Rich
Man’s Trick

Comment by Term Limits, LIKE ONE! Friday, Feb 17, 17 @ 1:48 pm
Good luck on collecting from Rahm.

Comment by Wow Friday, Feb 17, 17 @ 1:50 pm
1K to the Rahm Foundation.

Comment by Anonymous Friday, Feb 17, 17 @ 2:31 pm
To the update -

The FY18 Appropriations package filed by Rep. Durkin showed $550 million for my Alma Mater.

I have not gone back to see what previous Appropriation packages were for the UofI, but with the State being close to $1 Billion behind in its agreed to obligations I have to see this as little more than a ruse and a feeble attempt to deflect blame.

Am I wrong?

Comment by illini Friday, Feb 17, 17 @ 2:36 pm
Regarding the FY18 bills, many (all?) contain:

“This Act takes effect July 1, 2017, if and only if Senate Bill 2063 of the 100th General Assembly (the unbalanced Budget Response Act), as introduced in the Illinois Senate, becomes law.”

Comment by ryan Friday, Feb 17, 17 @ 3:30 pm
==“I’ve asked the Police Department to get the hound dogs out to go find it.==

Rahm may want to familiarize himself with his police departments canine unit, which is comprised of German Shepherds, Belgian Malinois, and Labs. No hound dogs to be found.

And it’s in poor taste to joke about using CPD resources to hunt down a piece of paper, considering all the personnel issues that department has faced recently. He needs a better joke writer.

Comment by City Zen Friday, Feb 17, 17 @ 4:06 pm