Posted on 07/06/2010 11:31:24 AM PDT by JoeProBono
SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (AP) -- Illinois Gov. Pat Quinn has handed out raises - some of more than 20 percent - to his staff while proclaiming a message of "shared sacrifice" and planning spending cuts of $1.4 billion because the state is awash in debt.
The Democrat has given 43 salary increases averaging 11.4 percent to 35 staffers in the past 15 months, according to an Associated Press analysis of records obtained under the Freedom of Information Act. ....
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Well, if this doesn’t take the cake. Actually, it takes the whole bakery.
I’d say Illinois deserves it. They voted for the guy. They also got Mayor Daley and gave us Obama.
He probably just got caught before he had a chance to issue his statement on across the board salary cuts for his staff averaging 10% (so he could look like he was sharing in the sacrifice, while simultaneously allowing 10% raises for his staff).
These liberal crooks all think they have the same cover they had 20 years ago before the internet and bloggers exposed their every move. This kind of corruption is harder to pull off these days. No thanks to the lamestream media.
This ought to make Illinois residents gleeful.
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