Here are the bill’s sponsors.
Here are the sponsors of HB6258 which would destroy pensions for active and retired teachers. If you know one or more of them (and I know some of you do!) call them and express your profound displeasure.
Rep. Elaine Nekritz - Daniel Biss - David Harris - Chris Nybo, Kelly Burke, Kelly M. Cassidy, William Cunningham, Robyn Gabel, Ann Williams, Linda Chapa LaVia, William Davis, Sara Feigenholtz, Jehan A. Gordon, Greg Harris, Elizabeth Hernandez, Charles W. Krezwick, Karen May, Deborah Mell, Cynthia Soto, Michael J. Zalewski and Cory Foster.
More Illinois Bizarro World pension news. Where up is down, black is white and Democrats are Republicans.
Recall that in Bizarro World everything is the opposite of the real world.
In the real world Democrats appear to be the defenders of social programs, Social Security and Medicare. In the current over-the-cliff budget battle in Washington, the GOP are opposed to taxing the rich. The GOP calls for cuts in social programs.
But here in Bizarro World, Democrats go after public employee pensions and Republicans defend them.
Take former Republican Governor Jim Edgar.
Former Gov. Jim Edgar says the corporate titans who are pressing state officials to fix Illinois’ deep financial problems need to temper their criticism of the
Bizarro World Democrat Nekritz’s latest pension killer. She takes pride in her anti-union positions.
Only in Illinois, the Bizarro World of Democratic Party politics, would a Democratic State Representative sit next to a teacher union activist and proclaim proudly that state unions detest her.
Yet that is exactly what Representative Elaine Nekritz did at an Illinois Retired Teacher Association luncheon a few months ago. I was that union activist.
When I warned Nekritz of the threat to the traditional alliance of Democrats and unions that the pension issue represented, she smiled and said, “Ask AFSCME. They already hate me.”
So it was no surprise to me that Nekritz and her north shore ally, Democratic Senator Dan Biss, would hold a presser today to announce the latest version of Squeezy the Pension Killing Cobra.
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