~~Ping!
The beat goes on ...
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*snip*
State budget cuts severely limited student aid for the 2009-2010 academic year, causing approximately 138,000 MAP grant recipients to receive only 50 percent of their award. There is an estimated 130,000 more eligible students who applied after May 15 for the funding who will not receive MAP awards because the fund will have been depleted.
Quinn looks like the hero signing a bill to pay the $250 million in MAP grants, doesn’t he? Kind of like the former governor who, it turns out, Quinn and other legislators in Springfield lambasted for doing just this kind of magic trick.
Remember when former Gov. Blagojevich signed the authorizations to fund a program to provide healthcare to thousands of Illinois children who did not have healthcare coverage?
In fact, Quinn’s funding of the MAP Grant without identifying where the money will come is exactly what Blagojevich did that Quinn and the rest of the hypocrites in Springfield said Blagojevich did that justified their taking action to impeach him from office.
In impeaching Blagojevich, the legislators cited the alleged federal charges that US Attorney Patrick Fitzgerald had yet to file against Blagojevich, and they impeached him on the basis of having failed to “follow the law” approving bills without proper funding.
That funding comes from the members of the legislature. But they like Quinn. They never liked Blagojevich.
It’s also possible that the jobs that the legislators sought from Blagojevich are now being sought by them through Quinn.
Jobs through clout and favoritism. Political budgeting. Broken rules regarding how state money (let’s properly identify that as taxpayer money, by the way). It all sounds vaguely familiar, doesn’t it?
I think they called it “pay-to-play.”
And then there is the politics of what Gov. Quinn did. So obvious and so outrageous.
Quinn approved the $250 million in cuts in the MAP Program as a part of his effort to blackmail the public into accepting an increase in the state income tax. Quinn wants to increase the income tax by 50 percent, a huge increase.
http://www.swnewsherald.com/online_content/2009/10/101909rh_blago.php
“I think we submitted just a list of people that were mostly, you know, some of them were people who’d sent us resumes in the past or other people we thought ... might be interested,” Obama said. “But they weren’t people who were connected to our political organization in any meaningful way.
Not in any “meaningful way”?
In other news.......
BTTT
Impeach. Nothing less.