Category: Illinois legislation
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Good, Bad & Ugly Bills Just Filed in Springfield
Here are just some of the stupid and/or pandering, not fully thought-through bills filed the first week of the new 104th General Assembly.
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Doubling Down on Bad Policy During Lame Duck Session
Instead of canceling Lame Duck session, Democrats called legislators into session for four days in the middle of a snowstorm and passed bills for which there was no immediate urgency and many of which were highly controversial. Their tone-deafness extended to passing bills that allowed illegals to hide their true identity, doubled down on DEI policies, and mandated the expansion of renewable energy incentives which will cost taxpayers and ratepayers millions.
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Fourth Estate Failure – Chicago Tribune Asks If Springfield is Paying Attention When the Trib Wasn’t Three Years Ago.
Now they start asking questions? When CEJA (Climate & Equitable Jobs Act) passed in 2021, where were the Chicago Tribune, its ace Springfield reporter, Rick Pearson, and its environmental alarmist, Michael Hawthorne?
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Race-Based Funding Bill Filed in IL
On Tuesday, July 30, 2024 I attended the press conference on higher education funding led by State Senator Kimberly Lightford and State Representative Carol Ammons. They introduced SB3965, a bill which creates a new funding formula for higher education in Illinois based off of race and other demographic factors.
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Thousands of Illinoisans Have Unsafe Drinking Water, While Pritzker Spends Million on Non-essential Services
Illinoisans should be outraged at the misallocation of resources. Taxpayers should be incensed that their money is being wasted on identitarian groups with no public purpose. Residents who have been suffering from a lack of clean water and modern sewer systems for years should ask every politician, from city council to state legislators, about funding priorities.
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IL Rep. Terra Costa Howard–Ignorant and Arrogant
Condescending Illinois State Representative Terra Costa Howard insults Illinoisans by her refusal to define the term “opposite sex” in her own bill.
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The IL Budget – A Gross Abuse of Taxpayers
There’s nothing more self-righteous than an Illinois Democrat in the throes of budget negotiations.
Every one of them assumes that all the state needs to do is spend more money, and magically, matters of crime, lackluster education scores, the third-highest unemployment in the country, and a myriad of other problems will get solved.
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Quick Hit – Dems Want to Give 1,550 Acre IL State Park to Indian Tribe
Today after a very contentious, but respectful debate, the Illinois House did not advance a bill that would have given the Prairie Band Potawatomi Indian Tribe the 1,550-acre Shabbona state park. The legislation is an attempt to make amends for the alleged theft of the property dating back to 1840 when the tribe left for a visit to kinsmen in Kansas and later returned to Illinois to find out that their land had been sold to others.
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The Real Bugs That Emerged in IL are CTU Members
Bottomline Upfront—Below is a fairly detailed explanation of the lies that were told 7 years ago about the EBF model to fund schools. It is important because CTU showed up in Springfield this week asking for $1 billion from state taxpayers when 7 years ago, they got everything they wanted and more. They are fraudsters and Liars. In fact, the entire public education industrial complex is one giant scam in this state.
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Flashback: EBF Analysis from 2017 – Fact Check for CTU and the Educational Industrial Complex in Illinois
Below is an analysis of the Evidenced Based Funding formula that I wrote in August 2017 just after the bill was passed. The EBF had been pushed by the educrats in the state for over three years before its passage. Superintendents lobbied hard for the funding formula, but as one can see now, seven years later, EBF is failing.
