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* Senate Republican Leader Bill Brady penned an op-ed…

With the signing of a new state budget, Illinois families, students and businesses can be proud of the work we have done to help move our state forward.

I want to commend Gov. Bruce Rauner for his leadership on this important issue. At the outset, he called for a budget that was responsible, balanced, contained no tax increases and ensured our commitment to education funding remained our No. 1 priority. I also want to thank my House and Senate colleagues on both side of the aisle for their hard work to make this vision a reality.

The budget we approved holds the line on taxes while cutting more than $1 billion in spending from the auto-pilot expenditures that would have resulted from no changes to current law. In fact, thanks to Republicans, we were able to reduce or eliminate more than a dozen Democrat bills that would have increased state spending by more than $500 million each year.

The billion dollars comes from “if we were operating without a budget but under consent decrees and court orders,” a Leader Brady spokesperson explained. Budget impasses are very expensive, in other words.

* I also asked his spokesperson for a list of those Democratic bills Brady mentioned and this is what he sent me…

· HB 2511 - 4 Prescription limit in LTC Facilities- $382,000

· HB 3479– MCO pharmacy reimbursement - $30-$38 million.

· HB 4289 - Medicaid Coverage for Autism - Exact amount unknown.

· HB 5018– Livable wages for front-line personnel

· HB 5135/ SB 3115: TANF Monthly Amount Increase- $20. 6 million in FY19 to $73.5 FY21. – reduced $14.5 million

· HB 5609/ SB3511 – CCP homemaker annual hourly wage increase each year until FY2021 - FY19 to FY22 is $819,221,430

· HB 5622 - increase DSP wages to $15 an hour. $300 million

· SB 2547 - Reimbursement Rates for DCFS contracts. $111 million (estimate from Illinois Collaboration on Youth)

· HB 5158 – Appropriations Bill for DCFS Contracts and Foster Parents. $155 million

· SB 2262 : MCO DME Fee Schedule

· SB 3508 - DD Rate Increase for Front Line Personnel (there are a few variations of this, but this is the only one that is active) - $300 million annually.

posted by Rich Miller
Monday, Jun 11, 18 @ 11:08 am

Comments

===Budget impasses are very expensive, in other words.===

Tell that to the 99th General Assembly.

“I’m frustrated too but taking steps to reform Illinois is more important than a short term budget stalemate.”

Right?

Exactly right.

(hashtag) 152-20

Comment by Oswego Willy Monday, Jun 11, 18 @ 11:12 am
–In fact, thanks to Republicans, we were able to reduce or eliminate more than a dozen Democrat bills that would have increased state spending by more than $500 million each year.–

Huh. When did Republicans get the majority?

Comment by wordslinger Monday, Jun 11, 18 @ 11:12 am
“I want to commend Gov. Bruce Rauner for his leadership on this important issue.”

What’s the old saying? Lead, follow or get out of the way. Rauner nullified himself, refusing to agree to anything, lying to people, moving the goalpoasts, mocking compromise efforts, etc. The GA apparently had enough.

Comment by Grandson of Man Monday, Jun 11, 18 @ 11:23 am
Some of these bills overlap. For example, there are 3 DSP Bills and 2 of them are identical. 1 of them never made it out of the House Rules Committee…Can Senate Republicans really take credit for that??

Comment by Anonymous Monday, Jun 11, 18 @ 11:27 am
===HB 4289 - Medicaid Coverage for Autism - Exact amount unknown.===

Yeah, run hard on that, Bill.

Comment by Ducky LaMoore Monday, Jun 11, 18 @ 11:27 am
You gotta love that list of bills he’s proud to have defeated. Coverage for autism? Buried it! Livable wages for front-line care workers? Crushed!

Comment by PJ Monday, Jun 11, 18 @ 11:34 am
Maybe Bill should have a talk with his spokesperson about what to crow about. That list of bills he appears to be so proud of holding up is campaign fodder for a Democrat opponent should one appear sometime. The “I stood against support for autistic kids, Medicaid recipients, caregivers, sick old people, and foster kids,” should play really well for him, I’m sure.

Comment by Anon221 Monday, Jun 11, 18 @ 11:35 am
Senate Republicans don’t believe in paying a livable wage. Check.

Senate Republicans don’t support foster parents. Check.

Senate Republicans don’t want Autism covered under Medicaid. Check.

Yes, go with that Leader Brady. Run on your record. Please.

Also, it’s Democratic, as in, you killed a dozen Democratic bills. Maybe you could find room in next year’s budget for a dictionary so you can understand the difference between a noun and an adjective.

Comment by 47th Ward Monday, Jun 11, 18 @ 11:45 am
Anonymous is right. It is very misleading to list two identical bills to raise disability workers’ wages, costing $300 million each, and call it a $600 saving! Those bills were introduced in the House and Senate with the intention that only one would survive.

Comment by mcmanus Monday, Jun 11, 18 @ 11:46 am
So the GOPies count as cuts items that only occur when they fail to get a budget done. Yikes

Comment by Annonin' Monday, Jun 11, 18 @ 12:22 pm
My wife is a DSP. It takes a special person to care for the mentally and physically disabled. anyone in her field deserves better pay for the work they do.

Comment by seenthebigpicture Monday, Jun 11, 18 @ 12:25 pm
I basically read that list as “F#$* poor/sick people and those that are trying to help them,” which is basically the conservative platform, so maybe it’s a good thing for him to be crowing about, but the tone deafness is stunning to me.

Comment by Perrid Monday, Jun 11, 18 @ 12:51 pm
Wait - so Brady is claiming savings in the budget because it doesn’t include big rate increases in bills that passed this year, but literally no one thought Rauner would sign?

Comment by SaulGoodman Monday, Jun 11, 18 @ 1:05 pm
=Also, it’s Democratic, as in, you killed a dozen Democratic bills. Maybe you could find room in next year’s budget for a dictionary so you can understand the difference between a noun and an adjective.=

Since nothing is going on today…

Because he capitalized the D, it could be defended as using Democrat as a formal name. If Madigan has bills that you are discussing, it would be acceptable to refer to them as “Madigan bills” in the same fashion.

Though it would not be acceptable to also use the phrase “Democrat Party,” but that’s for a different reason.

The reality is that the two are connected and part of a long-standing practice of losing the “ic” to imply that the party is not truly democratic. They have both become SOP for the GOP.

Comment by m Monday, Jun 11, 18 @ 1:12 pm
It’s an insult m, and Brady either knows it or should. Fox News, Rush Limbaugh and the others certainly know it as an insult.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Democrat_Party_(epithet)

Comment by 47th Ward Monday, Jun 11, 18 @ 1:16 pm
“Democrat” Party is an insult.

I know this as a Republican as I’m confronted with this slight as a reason others who speak with me call the GOP petty and trolling to Democrats.

It’s used to disparage. It’s a whistle to the Right as someone or something bad by attaching that word choice, purposely to make a disparaging point.

Why Repubs continue to want division… then also champion the suppression of voters… instead of attracting more voters…

Comment by Oswego Willy Monday, Jun 11, 18 @ 1:21 pm
=It’s an insult m, and Brady either knows it or should. Fox News, Rush Limbaugh and the others certainly know it as an insult.=

I’m not really disagreeing. I believe an insult is the idea behind it. But “Democrat Party” would be an insult and improper usage. “Democrat bills” would not be improper, and could be debated whether it is an insult.

In this case, it is an eponymous noun, which interestingly enough, often involves adding something like an “ic” to the end (as in Abrahamic faiths), unlike this case which involves dropping the “ic.”

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_eponymous_adjectives_in_English

Comment by m Monday, Jun 11, 18 @ 1:26 pm
===In this case, it is an eponymous noun,===

No it is not. The proper name is the Democratic Party. It is an established, long-standing name of an organization that’s been operating for many decades. To call it something that it is not is, at a minimum, rude.

You can’t rename a political party, no matter how you’d like to.

Comment by 47th Ward Monday, Jun 11, 18 @ 1:49 pm
Didn’t Democrats effectively kill these bills by not funding them in accordance with the balanced budget requirement?

Check

Comment by Lucky Pierre Monday, Jun 11, 18 @ 1:57 pm
==Didn’t Democrats effectively kill these bills ==

Brady said:

“thanks to Republicans, we were able to reduce or eliminate more than a dozen Democrat bills”

You’re deviating from the talking points LP

Comment by Demoralized Monday, Jun 11, 18 @ 2:32 pm
===…with the balanced budget requirement?===

Take that up with Governor Rauner and his signature.

Comment by Oswego Willy Monday, Jun 11, 18 @ 2:33 pm
=No it is not. The proper name is the Democratic Party. It is an established, long-standing name of an organization that’s been operating for many decades. To call it something that it is not is, at a minimum, rude.=
You can’t rename a political party, no matter how you’d like to. =

“Democrat” is an established, long-standing name for a member of the Democratic Party, accepted and used by the members of said party. “Democrat” as used in “Democrat bills” is an eponymous noun.

Otherwise, according to your logic, the term “Democrat” would be an insult whenever it is used to describe a member of the party. If not, and if it’s ok to say “Madigan is a Democrat”, which I think we can all agree on, then the word is an eponymous noun in Brady’s usage.

You don’t get to change the rules of the English language just because you don’t like them.

Comment by m Monday, Jun 11, 18 @ 2:46 pm
===You don’t get to change the rules of the English language just because you don’t like them.===

Well said. Neither then do you. Democrat is a noun, democratic is an adjective. The Democratic Party is the official name for the party. Democrats are members of the Democratic Party. It is both rude and incorrect to refer to it as the Democrat Party, Democrat bills, Democrat leadership, etc. When referring to the Democratic Party, you should simply call it by its proper name, the Democratic Party.

Good day sir.

Comment by 47th Ward Monday, Jun 11, 18 @ 2:54 pm
Oh, for crying out loud, this is a budget post. Get back to the topic.

Comment by Rich Miller Monday, Jun 11, 18 @ 3:18 pm
=Oh, for crying out loud, this is a budget post. Get back to the topic.=

It’s a slow day. Sorry.

Comment by m Monday, Jun 11, 18 @ 3:21 pm
–I’m not really disagreeing. I believe an insult is the idea behind it. But “Democrat Party” would be an insult and improper usage. “Democrat bills” would not be improper, and could be debated whether it is an insult.–

On the one hand, you spend a lot of time wandering aimlessly around the barn. On the other hand, see the the first hand.

Comment by wordslinger Monday, Jun 11, 18 @ 4:49 pm