A simple message about your Illinois Constitution.
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Bob Lyons: This bill can be stopped.
Bob Lyons was elected to represent retirees on the TRS board of trustees. The following comes from Bob this morning: The word out of Springfield is that Madigan will call the House into session next Tuesday, December 3, meaning he thinks that he has enough Democrat votes to put on a pension reduction bill. But the other news this morning is that Bruce Rauner, GOP candidate for Governor of Illinois
Jim Broadway: A test of the rule of law.
What are the details? What bill will be amended to become the new pension law? None of that information is available. We only know Madigan plans a one-day session of the House on December 3, and the Senate may be in December 3-4. It would seem, then, that the House will write the new law. A bill from the Senate will be amended with profound effects and very little time for the folks it affects to
Bruce Rauner and his $53 million dollar Timex.
Separated at birth. Floyd Turbo and Bruce Rauner. In his Floyd Turbo hunting outfit and his $18 dollar watch, Bruce Rauner is running for governor as if he were the working stiff down the block. Not my block. Bruce Rauner owns an 11,709 square foot mansion in Key Largo, Florida worth $6.9 million, a condo in Park City, Utah worth $1.75 million, two more properties in Clyde Park Town, Montana, t
11-24-13 Fred Klonsky | Running for our pensions. | VOTE 4 Fred Klonsky.
Fred Klonsky | Daily posts from a retired public school teacher who is just looking at the data.: Sunday reads. Pension-busting Ilinois State Senator Dan Biss and IEA Retired member Jack Tucker at our SORE witness in October. The Illinois coalition of state public employee unions, We Are One, will be holding actions at key legislative district offices on December 2nd. Join me in being at one of t