Until Chicago falls into the lake Illinois will continue to be the most corrupt, bankrupt and mismanaged state in the country. The thought of yet another Daley democrat in the Governors mansion should scare you. Look what Quinn has managed to do. It is hard to imagine that anyone could take the state into a worse place. More boards and commissions. Wake up those appointments are political payback. It's a machine the Daley democrats perfected. Nothing changes if nothing changes. Yesterday Quinn was quoted saying wait until you see what we are giving you (Obama Care). It's a sick statement. The Government has never given you or me one thing.

The Government can't ever Give you anything they can only take! If you received something from the Government its because they took it like a thief from someone else.

I was born and raised in Chicago and was a loyal Dem. After 37 yrs. I left. Since I left, I learned Dems are the new slave owners. If they asllow upward mobility people are not desperate and think on their own which may result in them losing power. The Dems need poor,under educated people to remain in power.

We had a chance to vote for a decent and fiscally responsible govenor, but now we are stuck with a dunce in Springfield. We need to get rid of him, just like we did Blago.

Republican Mitch Daniels has stepped down after serving two terms as governor of Indiana. He leaves the state with a AAA credit rating, a $500 million budget surplus and 2 billion in reserves.
Illinois governor Pat Quinn presides over a state with some of the highest taxes, the worst credit rating, $9 billion in unpaid bills, and a pension debt of more than $94 billion.

Good by Illinois

Former State Senator and Republican Cook County Board President candidate Roger Keats and his wife Tina are leaving Illinois to live in Texas. They bid farewell to their Illinois friends in a Wilmette Beacon article and with this letter this weekend, saying they're "voting with their feet and their wallets":

GOOD BYE AND GOOD LUCK

As we leave Illinois for good, I wanted to say goodbye to my friends and wish all of you well. I am a lifelong son of the heartland and proud of it. After 60 years, I leave Illinois with a heavy heart. BUT enough is enough! The leaders of Illinois refuse to see we can’t continue going in the direction we are and expect people who have options to stay here. I remember when Illinois had 25 congressmen. In 2012 we will have 18. Compared to the rest of the country we have lost 1/4 of our population. Dont blame the weather, because I love 4 seasons.

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Illinois just sold still more bonds and our credit rating is so bad we pay higher interest rates than junk bonds! Junk Bonds! Illinois is ranked 50th for fiscal policy; 47th in job creation; 1st in unfunded pension liabilities; 2nd largest budget deficit; 1st in failing schools; 1st in bonded indebtedness; highest sales tax in the nation; most judges indicted (Operations Greylord and Gambat); and 5 of our last 9 elected governors have been indicted. That is more than the other 49 states added together! Then add 32 Chicago Aldermen and (according to the Chicago Tribune) over 1000 state and municipal employees indicted. Also, as many other Northern States there is great racial bias against white people. The corruption tax is a real cost of doing business. We are the butt of jokes for stand up comics

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We live in the most corrupt big city, in the most corrupt big county in the most corrupt state in America . I am sick and tired of subsidizing crooks. A day rarely passes without an article about the corruption and incompetence. Chicago even got caught rigging the tests to hire police and fire! Our Crook County CORPORATE property tax system is intentionally corrupt. The Democrat State Chairman who is also the Speaker of the Illinois House (Spkr. Mike Madigan) and the most senior alderman in Chicago each make well over a million dollars a year putting the fix in for their clients tax assessments.

We are moving to Texas where there is no income tax while Illinois just went up 67%. Texas sales tax is ½ of ours, which is the highest in the nation. Southern states are supportive of job producers, tax payers and folks who offer opportunities to their residents. Illinois shakes them down for every penny that can be extorted from them

I hate this state, can't wait to leave, nothing but crooked politics, a one time we had so many good jobs, people would come from other states to work here, now they are leaving in droves......Leaving soon myself.

Time for new state management! IL is a horrible state to try to live in! It's time to shake it up and get down to the brass tacks and turn the state around! People of IL need to take back their state! Starting from the top down! A political office should be a honor and a privalege not a high paying career! Limits and lower pay caps need to be put I to place by the people of the state! After all these people where "hired" by the people for the people! It's time to get rid of all or most of these so called boards and commissions reform welfare, IL does not have enough state employees that can watch for fraud, the Joliet welfare office is severally under staffed as well as the social security office! The state only replaces positions that are open due to retirement! IL needs a governor that will turn the state around by better management and stop over spending and then cutting needed programs that if properly managed to help people become non dependent on welfare! After all a helping hand to a persons betterment will lead to less people dependent on welfare programs! Time for people of IL to grow a back bone and clean house in Springfield from the top down!

How about a single term limit for all political positions in IL

With a salary cap of $32,000 plus the governor would also have to pay taxes on fair value of any housing paid for by the state?

The biggest problem now is Obama supporter GOP governor wannabe Kirk Dillard. He used the Illinois Industrial Commission Board to reward Chicago machine democrats and organized crime associates while Janis Cellini, sister of convicted felon Bill Cellini was Edgar's patronage chief and Dillard was chief of staff. He knew about bribes and shakedowns and chose to do nothing because of his friendship with these people. Now it will be made public and Dillard will never be Governor.

Quinn should immediately be placed in the cell vacated by Ryan on January 30, 2013.

The Governor of Illinois doesn't live in the Governor's Mansion. He does rent it out nightly. My sister and her family rented if for a night and said it was fun.