Illinois lawmakers sue to get paid despite state budget mess

http://www.stltoday.com/news/local/illinois/illinois-lawmakers-sue-to-get-paid-despite-state-budget- ^ | 2 Dec 16 | na

[ARGLOCKGUY]

SPRINGFIELD, Ill. • Half-a-dozen state representatives have sued the Illinois comptroller for holding up their paychecks during the state budget mess. The Democratic lawmakers filed a lawsuit in Cook County Circuit Court on Friday demanding that Republican Comptroller Leslie Munger and Gov. Bruce Rauner "end unwarranted political pressure." In April, Munger began putting paychecks for the governor and lawmakers in line and pays them like other vendors' overdue bills get paid. The lawsuit was filed by Democratic representatives Emanuel "Chris" Welch of Hillside, Kate Cloonen of Kankakee, Lisa Hernandez of Cicero along with Chicagoans Mary Flowers, Sonya Harper and Silvan Tabares (tuh-BAH'-riss).

[bert]

-—the state budget mess-—

euphemism for “can’t meet the payroll”

The solution is easy deposit a bad check in the payroll account and hope some money will come in over the weekend to cover it

[Lisbon1940]

Hey,Cloonen. The train has pulled out of Kankakee.

[bert]

Riding on the City of New Orleans
Illinois Central Monday morning rail
Fifteen cars and fifteen restless riders
Three conductors and twenty-five sacks of mail
All along the southbound odyssey
The train pulls out at Kankakee
Rolls along past houses, farms and fields
Passin’ trains that have no names
Freight yards full of old black men
And the graveyards of the rusted automobiles

Good morning America how are you?
Don’t you know me I’m your native son
I’m the train they call The City of New Orleans
I’ll be gone five hundred miles when the day is done

Dealin’ cards with the old men in the club car
Penny a point ain’t no one keepin’ score
Won’t you pass the paper bag that holds the bottle
Feel the wheels rumblin’ ‘neath the floor
And the sons of Pullman porters
And the sons of engineers
Ride their father’s magic carpets made of steam
Mothers with their babes asleep
Are rockin’ to the gentle beat
And the rhythm of the rails is all they dream

Good morning America how are you?
Don’t you know me I’m your native son
I’m the train they call The City of New Orleans
I’ll be gone five hundred miles when the day is done

Nighttime on The City of New Orleans
Changing cars in Memphis, Tennessee
Half way home, we’ll be there by morning
Through the Mississippi darkness
Rolling down to the sea
And all the towns and people seem
To fade into a bad dream
And the steel rails still ain’t heard the news
The conductor sings his song again
The passengers will please refrain
This train’s got the disappearing railroad blues

Good night, America, how are you?
Don’t you know me I’m your native son
I’m the train they call The City of New Orleans
I’ll be gone five hundred miles when the day is done

[Mercat]

Great old song.

[OttawaFreeper]

Did Clarence Beeks get paid yet?

[Lisbon1940]

Same dude wrote hey Chicago whadya say.

[GeorgiaDawg32]

Billy Ray Valentine is looking into it.

[honurider]

It becomes more and more obvious over time that humanity has seriously polluted the gene pool by pissing in it.

Over time government service turned into a government job. Big mistake that has its roots in a misunderstanding of two basic social concepts; personal responsibility and property rights and a better understanding of what is force; which in inevitably becomes ‘the law’. F. Bastiat is referred to here.

“Mankind’s history is one of systematic, arbitrary
abuse and control by the elite acting privately, through the church, but mostly through government. It is a tragic history where hundreds of millions of unfortunate souls have been slaughtered, mostly by their own government. A historian writing 200 or 300 years from now might view the liberties that
existed for a tiny portion of mankind’s population, mostly in the Western world, for only a tiny portion of its history, the last century or two, as a historical curiosity that defies explanation.” Walter Williams

[Nailbiter]

Reap what you sow- stupid democrats and Madigan

[zek157]

They should be absolutely dead last in the line to get paid, certainly behind state vendors.

[Celtic Conservative]

100 billion and counting. Michigan has lots of problems, but it DOES have a balanced buget amendment. Teachers pensions? Michigan is screwed.

[The FIGHTIN Illini]

The late great Steve Goodman

[trebb]

Lawmakers - “Sure we screwed the pooch on the budget and wasted untold millions, that doesn’t mean we should put up with delays in our own pay”.....

[junta]

You want to see how much Democratic hacks believe in Global Warming get on I-55 the day the hacks have to be back in Springfield as they zip past you in their Escalades back to Springfield, zooming by as you look at their Obama bumper stickers.

[arthurus]

The Illinois State Legislature created the budget meal. They have been served the dessert the dessert.

[arthurus]

The Illinois State Legislature crooked the budget meal. They have been served the dessert.

[sparklite2]

[The comptroller delaying pay] was appointed in 2014 to fill a vacancy but lost election last month to Democrat Susana Mendoza. Mendoza has pledge to continue withholding pay.

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Heh. Not gonna get any better. And why would the lawmaking body resort to using the court system when they could just pass a law?

[IAGeezer912]

I’ll bet they wish they had Bill Brasky on the budget committee. Everybody knows Bill Brasky and he can do anything.