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NomChompsky posted:The republican party of Illinois is without a doubt one of the most incompetent political organizations in the entire country and literally cruised to victory in 2014 on a national tide of idiot horseshit. their idiot horseshit shut down the clinic I went to and put my psychologist out of a job 
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Badger of Basra posted:Also I tried to call my state rep and state senator to tell them to shift money in the capital bill from roads to public transit. I had to leave a message for my senator, but someone picked up in my rep's office. I told them my spiel and then asked if they needed my address or name or anything and they were like "nope thanks, bye!" Very weird. They either are the shittiest district director ever, or they wrote your name down and are just gonna look you up in SmartVAN. Most state rep offices have access to it unless they're freshman ones who haven't gotten it yet. Victory Position posted:their idiot horseshit shut down the clinic I went to and put my psychologist out of a job gently caress.
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Anyone have a good roundup of what got voted on today? It seems like a lot, and some of it might even be good? https://twitter.com/WillGuzzardi/status/1134976002256461826 Looks like my calls worked! I think that's an extra $2 billion to transit compared to the original. Figures from the original were $28.6 billion for transportation, with $3.4 billion of that for transit. $10 billion or so was for *new* roads and bridges. So guess they cut out a lot of that road money. Badger of Basra fucked around with this message at 02:49 on Jun 2, 2019 |
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Jun 2, 2019 02:44
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Wow, it's so weird being in a state with a functioning government, and all it took was Democratic supermajorities.
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Jun 3, 2019 15:17
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dwarf74 posted:Wow, it's so weird being in a state with a functioning government, and all it took was Democratic supermajorities. I think it's more about a gov who convinced his party he would have their back against potential primary challenges and didn't renege constantly like blago Since 03 here's Dems in house by 2 year term, need 71 for supermajority 66(blago) 65(blago) 67(blago) 70(Quinn) 64(Quinn) 71(Quinn) 71(rauner, who picked off one of the Dems) 65(rauner) 74 (jb) Senate , 36 needed for supermajority 32 (blago) 31 (blago) 37 (blago) 37 (Quinn) 35 (Quinn) 40 (Quinn) 39 (rauner) 37 (rauner) 40 (jb) But obviously don't need a supermajority when you have all 3 chambers controlled for 12 straight years, that's just bad governing . Hell, Quinn could have been overridden if they wanted to back in 2013
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What’s the deal here? http://www.fox32chicago.com/news/local/illinois-lawmakers-getting-1-600-pay-raise State senators have been freezing their cost of living pay raise for a while, but passed a version without that freeze while nobody was looking?
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Jun 3, 2019 16:24
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Slashing legislator pay is faux-populist bullshit anyway designed to keep the pool of politicians limited to the independently wealthy and encourages them to be on the take.
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Jun 3, 2019 16:53
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Yeah, well paid and competent legislature and, maybe more importantly, their staff are good.
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Jun 3, 2019 16:58
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I'm excited about sports gambling. Also sounds like the state will make a ton off those gaming licenses.
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Jun 3, 2019 18:40
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Anyone know if the sports gambling law was written any better than the video gambling law? The video gambling law was written by the lobbies and it took years to make the expected tax revenue of the first year.
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Orvin posted:Anyone know if the sports gambling law was written any better than the video gambling law? The video gambling law was written by the lobbies and it took years to make the expected tax revenue of the first year. It's been a net loss for the state so far, that's how poorly it was written
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Last I saw was the sports gambling licenses and non Chicago casino licenses paid 5% of total receipts out to the govt (not sure on state/Muni split). And the Chicago casino would be 33% 5% is massively too low, im not even sure if 50% would be worth it due to the really nasty societal effects of casinos
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Jun 3, 2019 20:47
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That Chicago casino license is the score of the loving century, goddamn. They'll have the rights to putting slots in O'Hare as well.
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mastershakeman posted:Last I saw was the sports gambling licenses and non Chicago casino licenses paid 5% of total receipts out to the govt (not sure on state/Muni split). And the Chicago casino would be 33% That cat is already out of the bag. Drive down N 2nd or North Main in Rockford and it's already "small business boosting" slot machine shops everywhere.
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Those little slot machine shops are everywhere, in every strip mall and every gas station. It's cancerous.
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Dexo posted:That cat is already out of the bag. Drive down N 2nd or North Main in Rockford and it's already "small business boosting" slot machine shops everywhere. That sucks to hear, I hadn't noticed that the last time I was there taking my kid to the fantastic children's museum downtown Wbez has a big article on this, which pointed out Rockford has 2nd highest number of video slot and poker machines in the state already. Including its burbs, it's 187 establishments with 900 machines, and now the casino wbez posted:The number of state-sponsored gambling “positions” — seats to place a bet inside a casino, bar or racino — will grow from almost 44,000 to nearly 80,000. That’s about four times the number of positions in any neighboring state, according to a review of gambling statistics by ProPublica Illinois and WBEZ.
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Jun 4, 2019 15:10
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Tribune story today says Illinois passed a reverse version of SB4 in Texas - that law required police departments to cooperate with ICE. The Legislature here passed one prohibiting cooperation agreements with ICE. Seems like a big deal and also good, I’m surprised that it didn’t get more press.
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Orvin posted:Anyone know if the sports gambling law was written any better than the video gambling law? The video gambling law was written by the lobbies and it took years to make the expected tax revenue of the first year. I know they have to pay a massive license up front which I think is good. Each venue like Wrigley, United Center, etc have to pony up $10 million just to get a license. And online outlets have to pay $20 million. The tax is 15% on sports which is higher than New Jersey by a few percent. But it's not similar to states like Pennsylvania which are doing 50/50 splits with a state partnership. There are some good things in the bill. Credits can be gained for construction costs. But they have to use a union company to get them. A lot of language on diversity hiring. They're giving the casinos an 18 month head start over online sportsbooks. And I believe they are raising the video gaming tax rate a few percent. Seems like a decent bill all around. https://www.natlawreview.com/article/illinois-senate-gaming-expansion
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I'm disappointed they're allowing slots at the racetracks. When Pennsylvania did it, slots were so much more popular that tracks started ignoring the racing and ran low- rated horses too often, just to keep the license. A lot of horses were abused and died because of that, and I don't know if they ever fixed it.
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The X-man cometh posted:I'm disappointed they're allowing slots at the racetracks. When Pennsylvania did it, slots were so much more popular that tracks started ignoring the racing and ran low- rated horses too often, just to keep the license. The horses are abused and dying because of the racing, not because they put slots in. I used to worked at a large predator rescue. We got a lot of horses to kill, butcher, and feed to the animals because they weren't fast anymore.
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Jun 9, 2019 15:52
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It's much worse when the horses are only there as a justification for the slots.
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Jun 10, 2019 02:06
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https://twitter.com/ad_quig/status/1138160471939473409?s=21 Hearing on the fair scheduling ordinance today and the mayor showed up (to listen, not to talk) which is apparently not common! This ordinance is already sponsored by 26 aldermen so if she okays it it’ll probably pass.
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Jun 11, 2019 17:38
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Haven't really kept up with this thread, but I must say is Pritzker...not awful?
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Cautious optimism is warranted.
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Jun 26, 2019 06:02
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Shrug deffo gonna run for president in 2024 if The Orange one wins in 2020
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I mean it's hard to be any worse than Rauner.
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Jun 27, 2019 23:06
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Pritzker stupidly reaffirming his commitment to independent redistricting
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Jun 27, 2019 23:12
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Yea that's dumb. We should really just gerrymander the gently caress out of the state now because why not? I wanna see a Chicago/Cairo continuous district.
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Source4Leko posted:Yea that's dumb. We should really just gerrymander the gently caress out of the state now because why not? I wanna see a Chicago/Cairo continuous district. They should at the very least gerrymander that chuddy gently caress Kinzinger out of office on a national level.
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Pritzker can reaffirm his dedication to fair maps but with Trump in and 2020 this close the House and Senate dem caucuses are going to have some serious problems with that and it means he will have to deal with Madigan AND Cullerton.
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Source4Leko posted:Yea that's dumb. We should really just gerrymander the gently caress out of the state now because why not? I wanna see a Chicago/Cairo continuous district. Every single district hits a college town and Chicago
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Source4Leko posted:Yea that's dumb. We should really just gerrymander the gently caress out of the state now because why not? I wanna see a Chicago/Cairo continuous district. yeah really, I'm tired of being represented by some of the dumbest motherfuckers in Congress (Shock, Lahood, and now Davis, and not a brain cell between them)
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brugroffil posted:Every single district hits a college town and Chicago They tried this with IL-13, still didn't work (but boy do they get close, less than 4k votes in 2018. If only Londrigan were a bit less of a milquetoast centrist Dem with the charisma of a wet sock). Course now that the old IlliniPundit blogger is out as County Clerk in Champaign Co. maybe UIUC kids will be able to vote in less than six hours.
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Oracle posted:They tried this with IL-13, still didn't work (but boy do they get close, less than 4k votes in 2018. If only Londrigan were a bit less of a milquetoast centrist Dem with the charisma of a wet sock). Course now that the old IlliniPundit blogger is out as County Clerk in Champaign Co. maybe UIUC kids will be able to vote in less than six hours. A single broken voting machine for the entire downstate
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morcant posted:What up, IL-13 buddy. Maybe 2020 is the year! Then I can finally take my UNSEAT DAVIS magnet off the car! It's bound to be a high-turnout election, so... here's hoping.
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jbweed when
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While I hate the idea of gerrymandering, I am becoming more and more of a reluctant supporter since Rs are doing it in so many states. Also, if we could kill Bailey, Halbrook and Wilhour, it would be magical on so many levels.
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I called my congressman (Quigley) earlier today to tell him to vote against the border funding and I checked, and he did vote against it! Neat!
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