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Sen. Aquino-sponsored law appropriating $2 from the General Revenue Fund to the GovernorÂ’s Office of Management and Budget for its FY 20 ordinary and contingent expenses now in effect

A new law sponsored by Sen. Omar Aquino (D-2) that was introduced with the purpose of appropriating $2 from the General Revenue Fund to the GovernorÂ’s Office of Management and Budget for its FY 20 ordinary and contingent expenses went into effect on June 5, according to the official Illinois General Assembly website.

The legislation was introduced in bill SB262 on Jan. 31, when Sen. John J. Cullerton (D-6) filed it with the Senate clerk.

According to the General Assembly website, the bill as introduced was designed to “appropriate $2 from the General Revenue Fund to the GovernorÂ’s Office of Management and Budget for its FY 20 ordinary and contingent expenses”.

After debate, the Senate passed the bill on June 5 and it arrived in the House on May 29, and both chambers agreed to the final version of the legislation on June 1. The bill was sent to the governor and signed into law on June 5. The law went into effect immediately.

Illinois has a bicameral congress. The state enacts laws through bills that can be introduced in either the state House of Representatives or the state Senate, and either chamber of the legislature can reject or amend a bill before it becomes law. Once a bill is passed by both chambers, the bill must be sent to the state governor within 30 days, after which the governor has 60 days to sign it or veto it. If the governor does nothing, it becomes law after the 60 days have passed. [Typos in original]

Weird.

Anybody out there have any theories about what they could be trying to do with absurd stories like these (this is not an isolated incident)? I mean, other than getting it posted here, of course.

By the way, that legislation ended up being the budget bill.

…Adding… A pal explains via text…

The proft bot is some low rent thing because he doesn’t want to pay for real content writing. All the algos are [crud] so auto-writing bots still helps you [manipulate] seo. He just needs the sites to have a high page rank when he actually does want to move [crud].

It doesn’t have to make sense. Computers don’t care about context anyway because they can’t parse it (yet). He just needs to be on news.google.com come campaign season.

posted by Rich Miller
Wednesday, Jul 17, 19 @ 10:32 am

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Seo

Comment by Not again Wednesday, Jul 17, 19 @ 10:35 am
===Anybody out there have any theories about what they could be trying to do with absurd stories like these (this is not an isolated incident)? I mean, other than getting it posted here, of course.===

They are trying to show a pattern they deem… oddities.

If the folks who sponsor these “oddities” according to Proft aren’t angry, white, old, or rural, even better?

Comment by Oswego Willy Wednesday, Jul 17, 19 @ 10:36 am
They’re hittin’ the recreational weed hard and early.

Comment by Lt. Guv Wednesday, Jul 17, 19 @ 10:37 am
Gaslighting
is the desired intent.
promoting confusion and obfuscation
to the every day voter.
causing consternation with government.
Distrust in the actions/procedures
of Government
is
Feature not Bug

Comment by Honeybear Wednesday, Jul 17, 19 @ 10:39 am
When we showed a similiar Proft piece on someone voting for something to Capt Fax a few weeks back it was thought this was some computer data scam that BigWords can use for other ventures.

Comment by Annonin' Wednesday, Jul 17, 19 @ 10:40 am
The article reads as if it was translated by an app into Chinese and then back to English. And since when has Illinois had a “congress”? I thought it had a General Assembly.

Comment by IllinoisBoi Wednesday, Jul 17, 19 @ 10:53 am
$2 budget? What about the other $39B? Where did it go? Must be waste, fraud and abuse. But I’m just asking questions. /s

Comment by Skeptic Wednesday, Jul 17, 19 @ 10:57 am
===According to the General Assembly website, the bill as introduced was designed to “appropriate $2 from the General Revenue Fund to the GovernorÂ’s Office of Management and Budget for its FY 20 ordinary and contingent expenses”.===

Copying and pasting from a bill’s status page is some real crackerjack reporting.

Comment by Nick Name Wednesday, Jul 17, 19 @ 11:06 am
It’s not worse than his actual copy.

Comment by Excitable Boy Wednesday, Jul 17, 19 @ 11:57 am
It’s a conspiracy.

Comment by Medvale School for the Gifted Wednesday, Jul 17, 19 @ 12:07 pm
Now we know why the gas tax had to be raised. That $2.00 broke the budget.

Comment by Bruce (no not him) Wednesday, Jul 17, 19 @ 12:13 pm
Focus on the bots if you want but this shows exactly how well Proft understands the legislative process, and exactly how seriously anyone should take him and his “analysis.”

Comment by DIstant watcher Wednesday, Jul 17, 19 @ 12:40 pm
Blame Madigan.

Comment by Keyrock Wednesday, Jul 17, 19 @ 1:58 pm
Love that outerspacey timeline:

== the Senate passed the bill on June 5 and it arrived in the House on May 29, and both chambers agreed to the final version of the legislation on June 1. The bill was sent to the governor and signed into law on June 5. ==

Garbage in, garbage out, by a garbage operation.

Comment by Linus Wednesday, Jul 17, 19 @ 2:10 pm
“He just needs to be on news.google.com come campaign season.”

It’s already working. For those of us who have automated searches set up in Google for bills, issues, members, etc, they are starting to fill up with these stories. Most of them seem to be “articles” about the number of bills someone has sponsored.

This is starting to remind me of using email before advanced spam filters. Pretty soon search engines could become a pain unless they have a “spam news” filter.

Comment by phenom_Anon Wednesday, Jul 17, 19 @ 3:49 pm
This is a simple “phishing” expedition. Having received one myself, it is easy to unleash a bot out on an issue and see what you catch. Big Fish get a real writer, small fish go out unedited.

Comment by Ed Equity Wednesday, Jul 17, 19 @ 6:01 pm