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Post by EagleDad on May 30, 2012 17:45:21 GMT -6
To this guys district - Mike Bost on the garbage that Madigan and the Chicago democrats pull in our legislature on an annual basis: www.youtube.com/watch?v=PhbRcDZiJJc#! As you watch this, think back to how we got a 66% tax increase in the middle of the night also. Illinois politics are just plain wrong, and I for one am glad someone has the kahunas to speak out against it. The speaker of the house (King Madigan) should not have this power. Chicago should not run the whole state. |
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Post by macrockett on May 31, 2012 8:33:04 GMT -6
To this guys district - Mike Bost on the garbage that Madigan and the Chicago democrats pull in our legislature on an annual basis: www.youtube.com/watch?v=PhbRcDZiJJc#! As you watch this, think back to how we got a 66% tax increase in the middle of the night also. Illinois politics are just plain wrong, and I for one am glad someone has the kahunas to speak out against it. The speaker of the house (King Madigan) should not have this power. Chicago should not run the whole state. Doug Ibendahl, the Chicago attorney who represented us against Wheatland Township's attempt to build an unnecessary Township building (which, by the way Supervisor Todd Morse and Trustees Frank King and Doug Haddad are still trying to build) sent me an email referencing the following article. Doug is one of the most honest, well intentioned attorneys I have ever met, and I know many. He gives you his perspective of State Rep. Mike Bost's (R-Murphysboro) rant. You can easily see, Doug holds nothing back when it comes to having disdain for the Illinois Republican Party: republicannewswatch.com/wp/?p=12201Anti-Democracy State Rep. Throws Tantrum over Lack of Democracy
By DOUG IBENDAHL • May 30, 2012 If you assumed the State House Republicans couldn’t be a bigger embarrassment to our Party – you were wrong. On Tuesday, State Rep. Mike Bost (R-Murphysboro) threw a disturbing hissy fit on the floor of the House in Springfield. In the video he’s screaming, yelling, cursing, and at one point flings a bunch of papers into the air. Bost gets so loud and out of control, at one point it looks like he wakes up his Republican colleague Jim Durkin. In the video Mike Bost is ranting and raving over some perceived slight by the Democrats. Bost is on his high horse comparing himself to Moses (no I’m not kidding), and decrying the lack of democracy in the Illinois House. First of all, it’s odd to hear Bost complaining about the Democrats. Like almost all of the House Republicans he’s regularly helped the Democrats advance their agenda. You can review Bost’s record of voting like a Democrat here. But even more shameful is Bost’s astounding hypocrisy. Bost pretends to care about democracy, but in fact he’s always been one of the most vicious opponents of real democracy within his own Illinois Party. Mike Bost is one of the biggest Tom Cross lackeys in the House GOP caucus. In that role Bost has always opposed SB 35 (formerly SB 600). Bost gets hysterical when Mike Madigan doesn’t let him have his way – while at the same time Bost says Republican voters shouldn’t be allowed to vote in their own State Party. Mike Bost isn’t powerless because of Mike Madigan. Mike Bost and the rest of the House Republicans are powerless because their caucus is composed of too many embarrassing buffoons like Mike Bost. As long as we’ve got a party apparatus that protects if not encourages this kind of behavior, the Democrats are always going to be in complete control in Illinois. The good news is we don’t have to rely on hotheads like Mike Bost to pass SB 35. In less than two weeks regular Republicans can on their own restore real elections and real accountability to the Illinois Republican Party at the State Convention in Tinley Park. The resolution the delegates need to pass is here. If you’re sick and tired of being embarrassed by guys like Mike Bost, restoring direct elections for the State Party’s senior governing board will be a huge advance towards something better. Doug Ibendahl is a Chicago Attorney and a former General Counsel of the Illinois Republican Party. END |
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Post by EagleDad on May 31, 2012 12:24:15 GMT -6
Ibendahl may very well be right about Bost (I don't know anything about him) - thats' not my point. I personally care little about internal party pissing matches over who's a "better republican", or whose a rhino in this context (King Madigan). I care even less when comments are supressed.
The point is our legislature in Illinois is a laughing stock, and far too much power resides with madigan and the Chicago machine. One need only watch the session today to see for themselves. I am watching one today die on the vine because one man, Madigan, gets to decide whether we are allowed to have a simple up or down vote on a constitutional right.
On Bost's rant declaring the house's lack of democracy, I agree with him that we do not have democracy when one man controls our rights via procedural gamery. We also do not have a democracy when massive changes are made to bills with little notice in an attempt to short-circuit adequate consideration by our electorate.
This is not the America that many great men made the sacrifices which we honored only just last weekend for us to have.
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Post by EagleDad on Jun 6, 2012 13:19:05 GMT -6
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Post by clowdaddy on Jun 8, 2012 9:18:11 GMT -6
If all goes well, I am moving!!!  Contract signed yesterday, inspection today, closing date set for 7/20. Not getting cocky yet; I'm a bit gun-shy after our original buyers weaseled out of the contract after 3 days. Howsomever, we are heading (back home again) to Indiana tomorrow to look for our new home. With taxes and property values, if we were to buy the exact same home there that we are selling here, I would be getting the equivalent of a $10 grand net annual raise. Hopefully soon, I will have the People's Republic of Illinois in my rear view mirror. But shhhhh, don't tell our prospective buyers about the political and financial mess they are buying into! After all, fair is fair. No one warned me about the sinister meaning behind all of those cute apple-shaped yard signs we saw while house-hunting in 2000. |
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Post by doctorwho on Jun 20, 2012 16:34:49 GMT -6
If all goes well, I am moving!!! Contract signed yesterday, inspection today, closing date set for 7/20. Not getting cocky yet; I'm a bit gun-shy after our original buyers weaseled out of the contract after 3 days. Howsomever, we are heading (back home again) to Indiana tomorrow to look for our new home. With taxes and property values, if we were to buy the exact same home there that we are selling here, I would be getting the equivalent of a $10 grand net annual raise. Hopefully soon, I will have the People's Republic of Illinois in my rear view mirror. But shhhhh, don't tell our prospective buyers about the political and financial mess they are buying into! After all, fair is fair. No one warned me about the sinister meaning behind all of those cute apple-shaped yard signs we saw while house-hunting in 2000. Congratulations !! As I spend time job hunting, deciding if I should remain ' retired' or not -- we have a scheduled house hunting trip to the Orlando area in August. $2200 property taxes, no state income tax and no spendthrift school boards with their hands in my checkbook. My concern like yours is moving my current stock..I just can't wait to show prospective buyers my tax bill and then show them where their High School is from here for their $12K. BUT I want to do so before they shutter May Watts as well. Feel free to post your farewell to King Madigan, Court Jester Quinn and a few past and present presidents of your local SB.....good luck on your search ! |
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Post by clowdaddy on Jun 22, 2012 6:58:23 GMT -6
Thanks, Doctor, and good luck to you as well. Our buyers are a young couple moving from the city, so they are amazed at how much house they can buy for what they were paying in rent for their condo, somewhere in the West Loop. I wish them well. As I do all of you here.
Dave
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Contract signed yesterday, inspection today, closing date set for 7/20. Not getting cocky yet; I'm a bit gun-shy after our original buyers weaseled out of the contract after 3 days.
