Archive for April, 2005
Posted in April 28th, 2005
For all of his skills as a candidate, the Governor is completely tone deaf in relation to CMS with his first quote being: “My understanding is that the conflict between the auditor general and CMS is sort of like a prize fight between accountants, OK?” the governor said. “There’s not a lot of muscle there […]
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Posted in April 28th, 2005
I’ll go out on a limb and say Paul Campbell won’t be confirmed to head CMS–the audit is damning and his ridiculous claims that the audit gives them a chance to show off their good work is one of the most politically tone deaf statements ever heard in Springfield–right next to Wynn’s claim that he […]
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Posted in April 28th, 2005
One of the fascinating things about Barack Obama is his ability to boil down complex, but important issues to good soundbites. It is a skill he shares with Clinton and that too many damn Democrats can’t figure out–you don’t need a forty point policy paper to defend social security or unemployment or other issues, you […]
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Posted in April 28th, 2005
From a Faithful ArchPundit Reader: Agree on your point, but there was another recent article/column somehwere that also used this device (written like a blog) that TOTALLY MISSES THE POINT that the most recent entries come first and the first entries come last. Lynn’s column was therefore upside down. I first kind of chuckled at […]
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Posted in April 28th, 2005
Sweet writes that LaHood, Biggert and Kirk all pressured Hastert to return to the rules for the Ethics Committee that were in place last year. Republican Rep. Ray LaHood of East Peoria said he told Hastert to back down while flying on Air Force One after the April 19 dedication of the Lincoln library. LaHood […]
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Posted in April 27th, 2005
Wayyyyyy differently is taken on by the State Journal Register GOV. ROD BLAGOJEVICH promised to change the way Illinois government does business. A harshly critical audit of Central Management Services released Tuesday would indicate maybe the governor’s administrators are doing things a bit too differently. And that is putting Auditor General Bill Holland’s report in […]
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Posted in April 27th, 2005
Community Development Block Grant funds have been targeted by the Bush Administration to be cut. The problem is that block grant funding was the choice over specific forms of aid years ago to give states and localities more flexibility–now the Bush Administration wants to simply end them. CDBG funds often are used for gap financing […]
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Posted in April 27th, 2005
Dems in DC need to make sure they are doing everything legally and they should be–the truce between parties over ethics was always a farce that served incumbents, but the not people they represent.
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Posted in April 27th, 2005
And the guffaw moment comes here: During the audit, a routine matter, CMS officials thumbed through Holland’s records to see whether his office complies with the standards he imposes on state agencies. Ed Wynn, CMS’s general counsel, said he ordered the unusual step and that it was absolutely not geared to intimidate the auditor Why […]
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Posted in April 27th, 2005
It looks like Denny is going to have to cave on the ethics rule and allow investigations on 5 votes instead of 6 which would require one person to jump from their party. And LaHood is there with the quotables: I said to him, ‘You’re the only one who can resolve this thing,’ ” said […]
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Posted in April 26th, 2005
Cross, a Wesleyan Grad in 1980, was in Bloomington on Monday. Did he bring back any bread for Rhodes?
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Posted in April 26th, 2005
Today’s column. Whether Saviano is or not is something I don’t know so I’ll avoid that, but the hysterical thing is that Lee Daniels thought he was and when Saviano would yell and scream at him during House Republican caucus meetings, he’d just take it and turn white from all the reports I’ve heard. That […]
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Posted in April 26th, 2005
Illinois 6 has a primary on the Dem side. Peter’s announcing tommorrow at 10 in Wheaton.
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Posted in April 26th, 2005
Crowley–NY–40 Schakowsky–IL–38 Larson–CT–17 So not much movement. I’m still confused on the time line. I’ll figure it out.
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Posted in April 26th, 2005
Look for the press and AGs office to go after all of the CMS contracts and beyond that–all the big contracts they can find and determine who the subcontractors are and how they got to be subcontractors. Even if one were to just view this as massive incompetence, the administration is in a lot of […]
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