I am all for the Illinois legislature overriding Gov. Ruiner’s vetoes of their hard-fought, bipartisan efforts to hammer out a budget package — to end this long, drawn-out stalemate — to finally get Illinois back on track to fiscal responsibility. The state needs to pay its bills, the schools need funded and to open timely, road construction needs to continue; a tax increase is needed to pay our bills! “We need to protect our critical state services and the citizens of Illinois who rely on them. This budget is balanced”, said Republican Senator, Dale Righter of Mattoon. I have said from the beginning of this impasse that the Governor should never have attached his “reform want list” to a budget; each of his wished for “structural changes”, his “business-friendly reforms” should have been referendums on the ballot for Illinois citizens to vote on, not holding our state hostage to his union-busting strategies!
Trish Forsyth Voss
Jul 7 2017
What’s your take on the IL legislature overriding Governor Ruiner’s vetoes of a budget bill?
I am all for the Illinois legislature overriding Gov. Ruiner’s vetoes of their hard-fought, bipartisan efforts to hammer out a budget package — to end this long, drawn-out stalemate — to finally get Illinois back on track to fiscal responsibility. The state needs to pay its bills, the schools need funded and to open timely, road construction needs to continue; a tax increase is needed to pay our bills! “We need to protect our critical state services and the citizens of Illinois who rely on them. This budget is balanced”, said Republican Senator, Dale Righter of Mattoon. I have said from the beginning of this impasse that the Governor should never have attached his “reform want list” to a budget; each of his wished for “structural changes”, his “business-friendly reforms” should have been referendums on the ballot for Illinois citizens to vote on, not holding our state hostage to his union-busting strategies!
Trish Forsyth Voss
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