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Wednesday, November 7, 2012

Anybody want a used Tea Party? « Fred Klonsky

Anybody want a used Tea Party? « Fred Klonsky:


Anybody want a used Tea Party?


538 blogger Nate Silver.
I received a comment this morning:
This is probably not the right spot for this comment, but I want to thank Fred for keeping everyone informed regarding HJRCA49. I am sure that the continuous information supplied by this blog was instrumental in defeating this self-serving change to the Illinois Constitution. Thanks to the postings in this blog, both active and retired employees will continue to have their pensions protected by the Constitution, which is a major benefit in light of the possible legislation which is due to be voted on shortly.
- Richc46
I don’t know about how instrumental I was. A lot of public employees contacted a lot of their friends. Bloggers like John Dillon, Glen Brown and Tim Furman spent a lot of time blogging on the issue of public employee pensions. So we were able to keep Mike Madigan from getting his 60% vote on the Constitutional Amendm