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Thursday, July 31, 2008

Speaker Madigan Refusing to Attend Meetings...

Grow Up Guys! This isn't kindergarten where you can take your toys and go home--this is our state--start governing.



Blagojevich scales back construction plan
Associated Press
1:34 PM CDT, July 31, 2008
CHICAGO - Lawmakers say Governor Rod Blagojevich has proposed ratcheting down the price tag of a statewide construction program and is abandoning a proposal to expand gambling to pay for it.

Top lawmakers who attended Thursday's meeting at Blagojevich's Chicago office say the capital plan would shrink from $34 billion to $25 billion.

It would be paid for in part by a partial lease of the state lottery rather than a large gambling expansion.

Representative Barbara Flynn Currie is already expressing skepticism about the lottery lease. She's a surrogate for House Speaker Michael Madigan, who skipped the meeting.



But House Republican leader Tom Cross says he thinks there's support for this latest plan, and he says he'll take it back to his caucus members.

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