While hiding out from George Bush, Topinka attacks Blagojevich for higher education funding.
At what opportunity cost? Seriously, this is what’s frustrating. Even in endorsing Blagojevich in 2002 I pointed out he was being dishonest about spending. Now, Topinka is offering up a free lunch for the universities. Where does the money come from?
I think the cuts, especially to ISU which is a quality school for students who don’t go to U of I, are horrible, but I’m not sure how Judy thinks she can solve that and every other problem without a tax increase.
Where, pray, did she pledge not to raise taxes? Blagojevich is the idiot who did that, and he’s bankrupted the state. I’m voting for her in the express hope that she will raise taxes.
Hoping that she’ll do it doesn’t make it true. She needs to demonstrate a plan that is fiscally sane. She hasn’t and given her problems with her base, she can’t win without promising not to raise taxes.
She has refused to take the no tax pledge; if she takes it, I’ll vote for no one. I’m sick of idiot children in the governor’s office.