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* Well, kinda. And just one of you. From Jim Dey’s latest Champaign News-Gazette column…
Asked what his version of a tax plan would involve, Madigan replied that “a House Democratic revenue plan would be items that you’ve seen before and you’re probably written about and others in the Legislature have talked about.”
A commenter on the CapitolFax website parodied Madigan’s reply by suggesting the speaker’s response would have been just as clear as it he had said the Democrats’ bill would “contain ideas, expressed in a text format, that, if passed by both chambers and signed into law, would become public acts.”
It’s that kind of he-who-says-the-least-has-the-most-power approach that has all eyes on the 75-year-old veteran Chicago politician.
* But this is a more interesting aspect of the column…
After three days of a 10-day special session, nothing was happening in Springfield that was visible to the naked eye. Whatever does happen in between today and July 1, the first day of the state’s 2017-18 fiscal year, probably won’t happen until the last minute.
At least that’s what Bloomington GOP state Sen. Jason Barickman predicts.
“The question will be, ‘Is this a classic Madigan 11th-12th hour negotiating ploy?’” he said.
Madigan loves to wait until the last second to jam big things through. It’s usually tough to see it coming, and then it’s too late because it already happened. He keeps me up at night wondering what he’s gonna pull at times like these.
The only question now is whether it happens by June 30th, or July 31st or…
posted by Rich Miller
Sunday, Jun 25, 17 @ 11:47 am
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Just like operation cobra back in the day
Comment by Canon Sunday, Jun 25, 17 @ 11:55 am
===operation cobra===
Yep. That was before my time. But I’ve thought about it a lot over the years.
Comment by Rich Miller Sunday, Jun 25, 17 @ 11:57 am
comisky vote was after midnight?
Comment by foster brooks Sunday, Jun 25, 17 @ 12:16 pm
===comisky vote was after midnight? ===
That was done to give time for Thompson and MJM to round up enough votes.
Comment by Rich Miller Sunday, Jun 25, 17 @ 12:24 pm
The fact that this is expected, openly discussed and accepted says everything about our State, our leadership and Mike Madigan. What a joke.
Comment by DuPage Moderate Sunday, Jun 25, 17 @ 1:04 pm
Honestly, I do not care if it is 11:59 pm on June 30 so long as a budget with the necessary required revenue provisions are finally passed.
No one will be happy with the final budget, but at least there will be some element of certainty.
The biggest mistake would be for the GA to separate the K-12 funding from the remainder of the budget and provide a full years funding for only a segment of those dependent on our state for their funding.
Comment by illini Sunday, Jun 25, 17 @ 1:31 pm
No budget, but will pass a Progressive income tax CA.
Comment by RNUG Sunday, Jun 25, 17 @ 2:43 pm