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Wednesday, May 16, 2012

“One Win” Quinn. The Governor uses bridge opening to attack teacher pensions. « Fred Klonsky

“One Win” Quinn. The Governor uses bridge opening to attack teacher pensions. « Fred Klonsky:


“One Win” Quinn. The Governor uses bridge opening to attack teacher pensions.


In 2010, in an overwhelmingly blue state, Pat Quinn could only beat right-wing Tea Party GOP candidate Bill Brady by 32,000 votes.
There are 360,000 members of the Teacher Retirement System in Illinois.
You do the math.
“One Win” Quinn.
In a classless and truthless statement, Quinn opened the rebuilt Congress Parkway Bridge that goes under the old post office by attacking teacher pensions.
The money for the bridge reconstruction came from a