2011 Campaign Contributions from Those Interested in Allowing Com Ed & Ameren to Hike Electric Rates without ICC Approval
A high power line broke on Main Street in Crystal Lake next to Best Buy. It didn't take a Smart Grid to find it.
The Campaign for Political Reform has a spreadsheet that shows how much each state legislator has taken from companies like Commonwealth Edison, Ameren and other entities which it thinks has a stake in the so-called “Smart Grid” electricity rate hike bill.
It’s not perfect. I found one State Senator who got a contribution from ComEd PAC that wasn’t on it, but it’s the best one-source document out there.
The donations shown are for this calenday year through October 18th. The Com Ed/Ameren electric rate hike veto override of Senate Bill 1652 occurred on October 19th, so there is some possibility additional, last minute contributions were made.
Below you see the contributions from 2011 for the 39 State senators who voted to override Governor Pat Quinn’s veto of Senate Bill 1652:
- Senate Democratic Victory Fund – $89,250
- Republican State Campaign Committee – $42,650
The Democratic Party Senate campaign fund is controlled by Senate President John Cullerton.
The Republican Party Senate campaign fund is run by Minority Leader Christine Radogno.
In descending order, here’s what each of the 39 State Senators who voted to raise your electric rates got in contributions from Commonwealth Edison, Ameren, plus other companies and executives thereof which the Committee on Political Reform believes had an interest in the bill’s passage:
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Mike Jacobs, sponsor of Senate Bill 1652
Christine Radogno – $38,000
- Kirk Dillard – $19,000
- Mike Jacobs – $16,750
- Dale Richter – $13,930
- Antonio Munoz – $13,850
- Don Harmon – $11,500
- Toi Hutchinson – $11,000
- James Meeks – $11,000
- Bill Brady – $9,500
- Annezette Collins – $8,250
- A. J. Wilhemi – $7,700
- Mattie Hunter – $7,000
- Carole Pankau – $6,350
- John Millner – $6,050
- Donne Trotter – $6,000
- John Jones – $5,750
- Kimberly Lightford – $5,500
- William Haine – $5.450
- Terry Link – $5,000
GOP Senate Minority Leader Christine Radogno
- Michael Noland – $4,750
- Matt Murphy – $4,250
- Pam Althoff – $4,000
- David Leuchtefeld – $3,358
- Kwame Raoul – $2,500
- Sue Rezen – $2,000
- Maggie Crotty – $1,500
- John Cullerton – $1,500
- Linda Holmes – $1,250
- Iris Martinez – $1,250
- Emil Jones, III – $1,000
- William Delgado – $1,000
- David Koehler – $750
- Martin Sandoval – $500
- Thomas Johnson – 0
- Steven Landek – 0
- Ron Sandack – 0
One expects those last three will get theirs direct from thier caucus leader.
1I do not plan on voting for my senator next time she is up for re-election.
I have been taken for the last time with her.
I even went to the bother of calling her office to oppose the Com Ed bill.
2No, Mr. Thoman. That won’t occur.
3It is a shame that these people are in government roles.
They are all crooks.
These companies have no intention of upgrading anything but their own pockets with this increase in rates.
4Looking at that list of “war- chest contributions”, it certainly looks like those folks all “got theirs”.
The money is worth more than a gentle handslap and mild rebuke from any caucus leader.
In the end, the causus leader doesn’t cast the votes.
5I have no intentiom of ever giving my support to any of these people again.
They should be ashamed of themselves.
People are hardly surviving as it is. Even Gov. Quinn realize that.
What’s your problem?
I’ve made a copy of these people so I can tell others,
DO NOT VOTE FOR THEM EVER AGAIN.
6Wait, Radogno gets $38k of a $42.6k GOPTea cut of the pie? How is that happening?
Poor Sandoval takes home only $500?
And Cullerton is at $1,500?
Just like Wall Street. At the Illinois Senate level.
7Would a Republican governor have vetoed this bill? Hope so.
8Now it comes down to this… 2 Naperville, IL moms arrested for refusing “Smart Meter” installations on their private property.
These meters have FCC numbers on them indicating they are tracking devices which is against the 4th Amendment:
“The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no Warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by Oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized.”
http://www.theblaze.com/stories/2013/01/24/woman-arrested-while-refusing-smart-meter-installation-on-her-property-tells-us-her-story/
These meters also allow for the power company to regulate your power usage in your home.
This is another “Redistribution of wealth” assuring that you will only be allowed what the government deems necessary and be given to those that they deem worthy.
Support only those that did not take money for their vote.
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