Thinking through the unintended and/or intended consequences of State Rep. David McSweeney’s bill to provide McHenry County Board Chairman Jack Franks with line item veto power, I’ve come up with come up with another possibility. Remember how Franks wanted to … Continue reading
Category Archives: Veto
Here’s the veto message from Governor Bruce Rauner on House Bill 1262 sponsored by Rep. Barbara Flynn Currie and Sen. Jennifer Bertino-Tarrant: Today I veto House Bill 1262 from the 100th General Assembly, which walks back the progress that was … Continue reading
Here is what a commenter wrote under the article Calls & Emails Still Needed Supporting Gubernatorial Veto of House Bill 171 If it weren’t for this blog, no one would know anything about this bill. Even former Chairman Joe weighed … Continue reading
The Illinois State Senate voted to override Governor Bruce Rauner’s veto of Senate HB 1905. It would have provided misdemeanor criminal penalties to elected municipal officials who passed local collective bargaining regulations. Two of McHenry County’s three State Senators–Pam Althoff … Continue reading
In years past the Village of Lakewood was provided fire protection services by the Woodstock Fire Protection District. At that time, if Lakewood residents passed a referendum, its properties could have been annexed to the Woodstock FPD. This past legislative … Continue reading
From the follwoing Republican legislators: Representative Allen Skillicorn, Representative David Allen Welter, Representative John Cabello, Representative Tom Morrison, Senator Kyle McCarter, and Senator Jim Oberweis all urge Governor Bruce Rauner to veto the Sanctuary State Bill, Senate Bill 31. Governor … Continue reading
Mainly Democrats voted to override Governor Bruce Rauner’s veto of the 32% income tax hike bill passed by the House yesterday. The roll call is below: Below is what led up to the veto override: Governor Vetoes Speaker Madigan’s 32% … Continue reading
A press release from Governor Bruce Rauner: Governor Rauner Statement on Speaker Madigan’s 32% Tax Hike SPRINGFIELD – Governor Bruce Rauner today issued the following statement following the House of Representative’s passage of a 32 percent income tax hike without … Continue reading
has picked up the information that Woodstock’s Susan Handelsman found about the bill that would allow school districts to raise real estate taxes without a referendum. It would legalize (still again) the transfer of money from Transportation Funds to districts’ … Continue reading
Below are the bills that Governor Bruce Rauner vetoed today: Veto Message for HB 1052 Today I return House Bill 1052, which would allow the transfer of authority and control over certain private roads in Warren Township to the highway … Continue reading
The veto message for House Bill 5764: Today I return House Bill 5764, which amends the Illinois Act on Aging to establish statutory wage increases for employees providing homemaker services. This bill provides for successive rate increases in the Illinois … Continue reading
Woodstock watchdog Susan Handelsman offers the following warning about a really bad bill: Every taxpayer should contact Governor to protest House Bill 5529. It allows schools to levy excess accumulation in transportation fund for express purpose of transfer to Gen … Continue reading
There are three buttons on legislators’ desks in Springfield: Yes No Present When he was running for President in 2008, Barack Obama took a fair amount of heat for voting “Present” so often. Following in his footsteps is State Rep. … Continue reading
A press release from Governor Bruce Rauner: Statement on Override Vote of SB 2043 SPRINGFIELD – The following statement can be attributed to Catherine Kelly, Press Secretary for Governor Rauner: “SB 2043 can only become law if Representative Franks or … Continue reading
That’s the headline in the State Journal-Register out of Springfield. That newspaper editorial was aiming at its local Republican State Representatives. Here’s a paragraph from the editorial: “They punted – plain and simple – on an important vote that would … Continue reading
On his blog Illinoyances, Steve Reick, the man who ran against State Rep. Jack Franks last year asks the following questino: Who do you believe? Reick quotes what Franks told the Northwest Herald–sort of a “pox on both sides” to … Continue reading
At Wednesday morning’s House Revenue & Finance Committee meeting, Representative Mike Tryon questioned officials from the Governor’s Office of Management and Budget about the financial consequences that could result from SB 1229’s veto override. The bill would unilaterally allow AFSCME … Continue reading
Democratic Party State Rep. Jack Franks demonstrated for a second time that he won’t have a chapter in a book called “Illinois Profiles in Courage.” When the bill to strip union negotiating power from Governor Bruce Rauner was first voted … Continue reading
Tonight at 7, State Rep. Jack Franks (D-Marengo) was scheduled to appear on WTTW’s Chicago Tonight. But Franks was a no show. Replacing him will be certain override voter Lou Lang of Skokie. The subject will be Governor Bruce Rauner’s … Continue reading
A full-page ad on the back page of Sunday’s Chicago Tribune tries to convince people to call State Rep. Carol Sente to urge her to vote against Senate Bill 1229, the legislation that would strip Governor Bruce Rauner of collective … Continue reading