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Another Political State Report posting on the Corrections nomination being put on hold.
Slow blogging until Monday probably. But check in…
February 2003
Accessible Blogging
Paul from CenterPoint points out a problem with blogger templates–quite often it overrides the ability of those with poor site to change text size when viewing a page.
This is an excellent point and I will make the changes the next time I work on my template as well as work on the darkness of my type. Thanks to Paul for pointing out this small issue that is easy to fix. Perhaps we all should take it into account.
Everytime You Think George Ryan Couldn’t Be Any Worse
he outdoes himself. He appointed 40 top administrators to four year terms right before Blagojevich took over. These position are termed positions that usually end right after a new administration takes over. However, if a vacancy occurs, a new appointment gets the full four year terms. In these cases, the individuals resigned, a vacancy was declared, and given a new four year appointment for essentially the same positions. They are now assured of jobs up until 2006.
I hate it when someone beats me to the punch
After hearing that Delay had called Democrats the Party of Appeasement I was about to do a web search of DeLay’s comments concerning Yugoslavia. William Saletan beat me to it.
I was for intervention in the Balkans and I’m for intervention in Iraq. However, I don’t think every person opposed is for appeasement of our enemies. I think they are incorrect, but the vast majority simply have come to different conclusions about how to deal with each threat in the most effective manner possible.
Except for twits like DeLay. They are just opportunist hacks.
Spinning a Buck to Save Some money
Blagojevich is seeking to sell bonds at historically low interest rates to free up funds to close the budget shortfall. All sorts of states and localities are playing with these sort of mechanisms and I’m leery of some of them. However, in this case, it shouldn’t hurt the state anymore than refinancing a house does and the state should pursue the plan.
Steve Brown is the policy guy for the Speaker and takes care of most of these decisions. He is very good at keeping his guy out of trouble, so my reading is that if he ultimately signs off, it will have to be a sound plan.
Doc Strike
I’m going to remain silent on the Doctor’s Strike and leave it to the Bloviator who knows a hell of a lot more than me. And he has some choice words on their proposals.
3 Posts up at Political State Report
Political State Report has three posts from today:
1) A few Less Bobbleheads on the Chicago City Council
2) A Challenge to the Outfit In Cicero
3) Roll ’em up in East St. Louis
Link goes to the general site because you should be reading it anyway…
Only 79%
There is nothing Daley could do to stop his three opponents from getting 21% of the vote.
Apparently there were some advances by independent alderman, I’ll post on it when the situation becomes clear tomorrow.
The Other Shoe Drops…
Actually it crashes through the Illinois Political system as a witness testified he wore a wire to a meeting with Pate Philip.
I mentioned that the investigation was clearly broader than we originally thought this is a bit of a blockbuster development.
So Private Property Rights Solutions are Bad Now
In typical incoherent fashion my favorite loon takes on the The Nature Conservancy as a dark conspiracy. Yeah.