Can the most anti-labor Illinois governor in 50 years lead a grassroots campaign?
I couldn’t help but laugh when I read that Illinois Governor Pat Quinn announced this week that he was going tolead a grassroots campaign to strip public employees of their pension rights.
Well, maybe not laugh exactly, since it’s my pension too.
But the thought of Pat Quinn, the guy who got chased out of the Illinois State Fair last week by members of the
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Did I dream this up?
Illinois Voters: Give teachers their pensions
August 23, 2012 By IEA Communications
Illinois Voters: Give teachers their pensions; find non-punative solution to pension crisis
Springfield, IL – A new statewide poll shows the efforts of Governor Quinn and other politicians to win public support for proposals to cut pensions for teachers and other public employees has failed. Rather, it shows that voters overwhelmingly believe that teachers are entitled to their full retirement benefits and that politicians should find fixes to the pension mess that do not punish
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