Quinn Bows to Pressure and Denies College of DuPage Grant Sought by College President

College of DuPage President praising Governor Pat Quinn.

College of DuPage President Robert Breuder praising Governor Pat Quinn.

Robert Breuder, the President of the College of DuPage had a wonderful plan.

He would invite Governor Pat Quinn to speak at the Commencement Ceremony in the hope that the Govenror would release $20 million in building funds to subsidize a yet-to-be determined new building.

Pretty much a typical way of thinking in Illinois.

Quid pro quo.

Adam Andrzejewski

Adam Andrzejewski

But he ran into a problem in Adam Andrzejewski, who ran for Governor in the GOP Primary in 2010, promising transparency.

Andrzejewski filed Freedom of Information requests for documents and got incriminating emails.

After they were published by his organization,For the Good of Illinois,Andrzejewski called out the desired arrangement.

Today, the Daily Herald reports that Quinn backed down.

He said the “tactics” used by the junior college President were unacceptable.


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Quinn Bows to Pressure and Denies College of DuPage Grant Sought by College President — 4 Comments

  1. **He would invite Governor Pat Quinn to speak at the Commencement Ceremony in the hope that the Govenror would release $20 million in building funds to subsidize a yet-to-be determined new building.

    Pretty much a typical way of thinking in Illinois.

    Quid pro quo.**

    Seriously?

    An invite to speak at commencement is now a bribe?

  2. I know exactly what it means.

    And your editorializing completely missed what Breuder was attempting to do. He wasn’t hoping that Quinn would release the $20M because Quinn was invited to speak. He was hoping that Quinn would release the $20M when Breuder created a fake project to get funded. The commencement speech, was, in Breuder’s mind, a just convenient PR opportunity to announce the funding.

    It pretty clearly was not a quid pro quo where Quinn was allowed to speak, and in turn Quinn released the money.

  3. Yes quid pro quo like Rauner giving a Chicago school $250,000 to get his daughter into it even though they turned her down once.

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