Vote us out Nov. 2
If legislators adjourn after doing so little, they’ll be asking citizens to oust them from office
May 1 2010
They haven’t sworn off borrowing. Or reformed how they spend money. Or fixed leaky ethics laws. Or given employers reasons to grow jobs here. Instead, Illinois legislators have spent four months enjoying the salaries and perks you lavish on them — and now they’re scheming to start a long summer vacation. This second post-Blagojevich year of charging so many taxpayers for so much dereliction of duty will be complete if lawmakers flutter a banner of surrender from the Capitol dome: “Vote us out Nov. 2.”
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