I wish this will be terrible only for the state of Illinois. Imagine how disastrous this would be to the city of Peoria, what that would do to their already depressed real estate prices, etc.
Quinn is THE worst governor of the entire union. He is OWNED by the state worker union. Even before he got elected to his first complete term (he was finishing the term of the other ethically challenged Democrat Governor Blogayovich), he RAISED the salary of the state union employees by 14%, and at the same time proposed the 50% tax increase. One of the state reps ran for election on the platform that she would vote against the income tax increase. She lost her re-election bid. During the lame-duck session, the tax increase was introduced, and the same state rep voted for it! And what do you know, she was offered and was about to start at a new position working for Quinn! The outcry for such an obvious quid-pro-quo corrupt deal, that she changed her mind about taking the job.
Even AFTER knowing about the upcoming tax increase, Illinois voted Quinn. Even though I live in Illinois, and my property’s equity has been going down the drain, if Illinois gets clobbered financially because of the tax increase, it would be a good lesson to the parasites who voted for that corrupt a-hole.
3 counties voted for Quinn, Peoria County was not one of them.
I live in Illinois too, it made me absolutely SICK that Quinn got (re)elected but then again look at the PARASITES that infest the City of Chicago, you know it was them "urban dwellers" that did it.
I was in Peoria during the early 80’s when there was a very long strike there. Supposedly, something like 10% of all the property in the city was near foreclosure by the end of the strike. If that company moves and the city hasn’t diversified since then, the place will dry up and blow away. And I think the company had been doing pretty well, the Chinese and other “building” countries were buying everything they could make.
Quinn also won with the help of Scott Lee Cohen.