That second line says everything about how the press wants to portray this. The conservative governor is just as much as fault as the spendthrift legislature. Yeah, right. They are locked in a battle because the governor is trying to regain some control over out of control state spending, even if its only in the smallest ways. The MSM needs to lay the blame where it belongs — on the Democratic state legislature, aided and abetted by “Republican” legislators who were more than happy to stick their snouts in the trough too.
Some people are just content to say it’s everybody’s fault and so it’s nobody’s fault. That’s Illinois. They should go back to being a territory. As a territory they will lose their state powers and right to make laws. They become under the direct control of the federal govt.