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Sailor Jerry posted:I was born and raised 30 minutes from Effingham towards Indiana. A local guy just announced a run for State Representative complaining about the increased income taxes. He's running as a Democrat. I live 10 minutes west of Effingham but I was born and raised right in the area you were. Are you a Newtonite? Our state Rep Cavaletto announced he is not running again. While he voted for the budget, he has constantly been a shitstain on everything else. He told one of my students that she was too pretty and nice looking to be in Alternative Education. This was before he told several of my students that Alt Ed schools are unnecessary and kids should just make due in "normal school". The people running for his seat have said that he was too liberal (all because of one vote).
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The economy of the state shifted because of railroads and Stephen A Douglas. Chicago exploded when the railroads connected to the Plains area.
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Oct 9, 2017 01:59
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Man, I am seeing so many pissed off idiots complaining about the LGBT history education bill. It seems like recognizing that these people existed throughout history is somehow wrong. One person complained and said that they would only accept this if “heterosexual history is taught in schools including Adam and Eve.”
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May 5, 2018 03:04
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Several years ago, at an at-risk youth education conference, we had a lady who was going to be giving a keynote presentation about media issues with teens. It started off somewhat normal. She was a former actress who had been in a background scene of some 90s teen romance movie. She talked about working in Hollywood and how they work hard to create the perfect “art” to make pull in teens and their disposable income. Then it went into crazy land. She talked about how becoming a born again Christian made her want to leave Hollywood and start a god fearing family. She then realized that Hollywood was trying to brainwash children to all different sort of things especially anti-Christian. She then went onto a 5 minute rant about Beyoncé’s alter ego as being Bey possessed by a demon. That demon takes over to help lure at-risk youth to be devil worshippers. Yep, it was completely batshit! This guy is probably something similar but replace Satan with globalists.
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May 26, 2018 06:09
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Trump has already said that if he commutes Blago that it is him connecting with Democrats. Patty Blago went on Fox News and said that Comey and Fitzgerald went after her husband to take down and governor and overstep the will of the people just like how they are trying to do to Trump. That right there is the play (along with Blago was on the Apprentice)
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Jun 1, 2018 03:52
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Illinois is so blatantly corrupt. http://twitter.com/WGNNews/status/1021152952415907840 http://twitter.com/capitolfax/status/1021155747462369280 http://twitter.com/tahmanbradley/status/1021131268090736640 http://twitter.com/RepChrisWelch/status/1021136470403428352 http://twitter.com/tahmanbradley/status/1021137778715906049 “absolutely not a campaign event”
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Jul 23, 2018 03:15
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dwarf74 posted:When I'm not watching the Bears predictably crap the bed and snatch defeat out of the jaws of victory, I am usually streaming TV from the various cable channel apps on my Roku. Up until recently there were vanishingly few political ads. Those ads are super annoying but dammit, the JB “karaoke” and “dad jokes” ads are loving stupid also. Is polling showing that people do not see him as human or something?
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Sep 12, 2018 05:12
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The Bold Kobold posted:I absolutely love how with mine almost half of the options only have a Republican candidate running. Same with me but this is the first year in over a decade where there have been democratic candidates running in over half of the elections. They will probably still lose but it is a first step (my county is so loving Republican, only 25% or so supported Jesse White in the last election he ran in).
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Sep 24, 2018 03:22
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Marco Rubio is coming to Illinois to campaign for Roksam. Trump is coming for Bost. Being a Southern Illinois resident, it warms my heart a little to see their power bible threatened, even though they will probably win. Mike Bost: Never Forget https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VZmobdeAUVU
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Oct 26, 2018 22:17
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gently caress Rauner’s latest commercial detailing all he has “done” over the last four years. One of them is “Restored the freedom of speech to public employees.” gently caress, you did nothing with that. The Supreme Court did that which is still beyond lovely.
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Nov 4, 2018 22:33
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All of my Republican friends (not the ones that work in politics but the everyday ones) have been going on and on about how the last two Democratic governors went to jail so Pritzker will too. Dear god....
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Nov 7, 2018 23:28
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This thread is missing something. We need a new day version of MIGF. When Rauner was first elected, MIGFwoukd spend all of the time talking about how he was just using this as a stepping stool to become President in 2016. It feels like Pritzker needs a hype man like that.
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Jan 30, 2019 16:33
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Yeah, the guys representing the area I live in are the ones who have sponsored that. Therefore, everyone on my Facebook feed is sharing the article and saying how great it would be. I have been posting this image and commenting about how stupid this would be since the rest of Illinois would lose most of its money for public institutions like prisons, schools, roads, etc. Edit: Strangely enough, the county I currently live in and my hometown county are the only counties that lose money or come out even in central/Southern Illinois. The rest of those counties that the sponsors represent are hosed though. 
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Feb 11, 2019 01:32
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Sailor Jerry posted:lol one of the co-sponsors is my state rep. There's always one bill of this nature floating around each session. Woohoo on the Crawford County living! My mother’s family is from Oblong so I spent a lot of time in Oblong and Robinson (I miss Dog N Suds). It is less that Jasper County contributes more and more that Jasper County takes less. Crawford has the prison (it still has that right) and the community college. Jasper County has none of that to use taxpayer contributions. That is honestly were most of it comes from. All of these counties contribute generally the same but some of these counties use a lot more (prisons, colleges, and other state funded agencies use more than what they send in).
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Feb 11, 2019 22:58
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Niwrad posted:I don't give a poo poo about tax stuff. It should be legal just from an ethical standpoint and because 75% of the residents here want it. Why does legalizing something that should be legal require figuring out how much loving money it can make the state first? Meanwhile people continue to get arrested for it, spend time in jail, and have their lives ruined. A prison guard I know told me that the majority of people in jail that say they are in there for pot are actually in there for child molestation. He said that he looked at their records and knows the truth but they just tell everyone it is drugs. Because of this, he does not think anyone in jail for pot should be released if it becomes legal. When I mentioned that we know publicly what people are in jail for so it does not matter what they say in jail, he could not understand what I meant.
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Feb 13, 2019 06:22
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The villagers are getting restless. Amazing how the same people who love Trump and told everyone to get over it are now freaking out.  
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Feb 25, 2019 23:18
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dwarf74 posted:Yeah it and that giant ugly cross can just go. It is THE Cross dammit! Jesus was loving huge!!! The funny part is Effingham is pretty much revenue neutral but they would be paying for all of the counties around them.
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Feb 26, 2019 01:26
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The rally to “take back Illinois” was held today. Around 1,300 people showed up for it. They had a giant flag as the backdrop. I am honestly surprised the most that my sister and brother in law did not go because they have both fallen into the chud valley. Apparently, there was a Pokemon raid happening that they chose to go to instead.  
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Mar 11, 2019 05:35
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xzzy posted:Are they able to clearly articulate to what point in the state's history they want to restore things to? As was said above, when rural white people ruled the roost and could sneer at the minorities and urban people while maintaining their power structure. I am going to keep posting downstate Illinois stuff like this. We have 3 new state reps in the area that have decided that they are going to get their names out there as much as possible. Also, I have never witnessed the local chud population up in arms as much as since Priztker got elected. I am thinking that they are pissed about how the left went after Trump that they need to do the same with the state stuff.
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Mar 11, 2019 22:07
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The X-man cometh posted:Did this time ever exist? Farmers have been getting screwed since before the Civil War. Yeah, they have always been screwed but in a previous time, population was more spread out so they felt like they had more say in their being screwed over.
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Mar 12, 2019 00:26
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God, I hate how stupid people can be. https://q985online.com/illinois-residents-may-soon-pay-a-tax-when-it-rains/ quote:If you think Illinois had a tax for everything, you're wrong! A new tax is being proposed that will cost you money every time it rains. It's being called the 'rain tax.' This is filling up my feed with “just another way for Chicago to screw us”. Also, for all the bitching people are doing about the possible gas tax raise, when I point out that, the VMT (that they all bitched about on Facebook) pilot program might have made it to where the gas tax did not have to be raised if they instituted the VMT over the next couple of years, they still complain about how the government in Illinois is stealing money from the citizens.
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Mar 27, 2019 22:41
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Well I have good news and bad news from downstate (that only affects us but others must share in my pain) Bad news: my county had a 1 cent sales tax proposal to be used for school building and maintenance funding. Due to having two major interstates running through it, it was estimated to bring in $5.2 million a year and mostly from travelers through the area. All of the other neighboring counties have passed one and it has benefitted their schools immensely. It lost here because people are stupid and MUH TAXES! Good news: my home town had a school board election. A few years ago, one of the members sent confidential, private information about a student (the son of the school board president) to people outside of the school system. He says he was elected by the people to bring transparency and accountability to the board. After it was found out that he had sent this, the Board stopped sending him any information and pretty much excluded him from internal discussions. He sued and had been a general pain in the rear end for the last 3 years. He has cost the school district hundreds of thousands in legal fees (already a strapped school) and has taken on some pretty aggressive behavior (both legal and physical...he said the son of the school board President assaulted him while shaking hands during graduation and tried to have the kid arrested). He was up for re-election and he lost...easily. In other words, southern Illinois is a land of contrasts.
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Apr 3, 2019 04:15
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In the new “Downstate is pissed about poo poo” weekly reminder, they are now pissed off that Pritzker is allowing tax payer money to be used for transgender surgeries. A local rep, who is making his name by filing, sponsoring or co-sponsoring any red meat bullshit he can (first bill was to put “In God We Trust” in every school, then it was to protect guns Bill, then it was to stop abortion, then it was the separate Chicago bill) has filed a bill to stop this. Downstate Republicans have to be loving the fact that the state is actually doing things now so that they can hem and haw about everything.
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Apr 9, 2019 03:49
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My county is such poo poo. http://www.thexradio.com/news/78-local-news/38810-county-board-legislative-committee-votes-to-put-separate-state-question-on-2020-ballot quote:
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Apr 10, 2019 21:34
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Did Rauner have any investigations into his financial shadiness while he was in office? I cannot remember anything.
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Apr 24, 2019 22:14
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Seems pretty interesting. https://www.dailyherald.com/news/20190507/illinois-took-in-15-billion-more-than-expected-last-month quote:State revenue for April exceeded projections by $1.5 billion, according to a letter sent to legislative leaders by state finance officials.
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May 8, 2019 03:34
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All that is being talked about on Facebook is the RHA. The one thing I do not like is how these were passed. I am not a fan of Wisconsin Republican rush jobs. Yes, I k ow that they have to get them passed by May 31st to get them going fast enough, but it just irks me.
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May 28, 2019 00:05
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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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Jun 28, 2019 03:03
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A local county clerk posted this:quote:Things are changing MAJORLY in the state of Illinois beginning tomorrow. PLEASE remember that the front line staff that you deal with, should you find yourself in my office, didn't do this, your legislators in Springfield did. My staff is simply doing their job. Please remember this and treat them accordingly. So many comments along the lines of “I am going to gas up in Indiana and Missouri now!” Or “I can’t wait to move away from this state.” Yet, these are the same people who complain about roads and potholes in the area. Also, the local radio station that has been pushing the Pritzker is raising taxes (lots of “how do you feel posts”) posted yesterday how the infrastructure plan will rebuild the main road in their town and to see the lack of angry comments was outstanding (still some of “oh great, now the roads will be closed” or “I’ll believe it when I see it”). I cannot wait until rep Wilhour takes part of the ceremonies and tells everyone that this got fixed because of him even though he voted against the package.
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Jun 30, 2019 18:13
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Well, the chuds in Southern Illinois have found their newest thing to get pissed about. It originally started about the DuQuoin State Fair removing Confederate Railroad from their line up this year. (Somehow connected to Capitol Fax getting it removed due to their use of the flag of traitors) Then it connected that with the Illinois State Fair still having Snoop Dogg perform even though one of his albums has a picture of a dead body with Trump written on the body tag. For as much as liberals get called snowflakes, there is some drat mighty melting people on the other side.
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Jul 6, 2019 05:31
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loving Bost! I came here to post that Trump is teasing a commutation of Blago’s sentence...how will the chuds respond?!?!?!? They will. E hypocritical about it Also, I posted an article about how Jim Edgar (referred to as the last down state governor) blasted the “kick Chicago out of Illinois” group as idiots who have not done anything because they do not know how to do anything. A guy commented and told me that George Ryan was the last downstate governor of Illinois. When I told him that Ryan was from Kankakee, he told me that Kankakee was this guy’s hometown and they “always felt downstate”. 
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Aug 8, 2019 04:37
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Geographically and culturally, Kankakee is not downstate whatsoever. As was said, Chicago and the collar counties are providing so much money for central and southern Illinois. I have had people brag over and over again how they are going to move to Indiana or Missouri as soon as they can. It has been nice for me to tell them that those other states can have “lower taxes” only because states like Illinois are paying for them since those other states cannot take care of their own poo poo so they have to beg for money. They generally shut the gently caress up after that but occasionally I get someone who says that those other states could 1) do it themselves if they do choose since they have Republican leadership better than democrat (I then get to make fun of them for not doing it now because they are actually stupid) which then leads to 2) why shouldn’t they do it if Illinois is dumb enough to pay more money (which I then am able to say that that works for anyone on welfare the ln)
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Aug 8, 2019 21:12
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Yes, let’s use Mercatus who lobbied the Bush administration to end “free market”regulation killers that helped lead to the Great Recession. Smart people! Also, intergovernment funding does play a part in state budgets. Yes, Illinois gets back 97% of what they put in but Indiana gets 130% of what they put in. Every extra penny that Indiana or any other neighboring state gets from the federal government is a penny that they do not have to use from their own budgets to provide those services. Now, those states can choose to direct that extra money to other programs or they can “cut taxes” since they do not need as much revenue. These states choose to keep their taxes low but one of the reasons that they can do that is because they take more federal money than they put in. Where does that money come from? Part of it comes from states like Connecticut and even Illinois.
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Aug 10, 2019 01:33
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Oracle posted:Methinks Shimkus' polling is becoming worrisome. Who's running against him for the D's out there? He announced last month that he is not running for re-election. That is why he is willing to criticize. As my Rep, I hope Trump bitches about him on Twitter and he is made to respond.
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Oct 10, 2019 23:13
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So Southern Illinois is getting stupid again. A guy posted on Facebook that the Jasper County Sheriff’s Department cake to take his wife’s guns due to her expired FOID card. Well, the comments filled with people decrying the unconstitutional actions and some even fantasized about shooting officers. Then appears the random internet video guy: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4aOm4h2TNC8 The Sheriff released a letter explaining what he is doing. http://www.jaspercountysheriff.net/alerts/4529768401 So internet guy posts another video and essentially just reads the letter but then says that Sheriffs across the state need to “stand up” to “these people”. It is simply amazing how many of these “support our police officers” people become anti-cop when the cops are doing something that effects them.
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Dec 29, 2019 16:52
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Here is the Sheriff’s response today:quote:Hello citizens of Jasper County this is Sheriff Brandon Francis. I would like to address the recent Facebook Post and rumors about the Sheriff’s Office going to a house to pick up an individual’s guns for an expired FOID. I would like to start off by advising everyone that since I have been Sheriff the Sheriff’s Office has never taken a firearm from any individual for a Concealed Carry or FOID expiration, suspension, or revocation.
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Dec 30, 2019 00:34
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Trevor Hale posted:Of course the one town he namechecks is Newton, a name that has no other connotation with guns at all. That is the actual county seat of Jasper County. It is the only place in Jasper County to be exact.
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Dec 30, 2019 02:46
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You are correct. Being from Newton and even I forget that it is Newtown, not Newton. Sailor Jerry posted:Can confirm. I graduated from high school with the guy, there probably won’t be a primary challenge (since he is a Democrat) but there are a bunch of Republicans in the county that now want him gone, even though he is (or at least was) really popular with the county before this. He is a good guy and, as can be attested from his letter, he and his department have been working their butts off to make sure that people have their documents taken care of with this FOID issue. Does not matter because these gun owners see it as just another example of a Democrat coming to take their guns.
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Dec 30, 2019 17:48
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Downstate has been essentially rebelling against it. Many of the towns and counties in rural Illinois are actively working against it. Jasper County apparently has a really good initial meeting over it (with people on both sides of the issue having meaningful discussions over it). However, the second meeting had 90 more people in the meeting, all from local churches, who used their time to pray for the county’s misguided ways while making up poo poo about marijuana. From the point in, the discussion shifted from positive to negative. I saw one county board member talking about how the county would need to hire more police officers and nurses to deal with marijuana use. Another board member now states that he wants the people to vote on it because it is too big an issue for him to vote on (profiles in courage right there).
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If I was a next to the Indiana border, I would open up a state line store (like they do for alcohol sales) and sell to all those thirsty Indiana residents. Effingham has allowed sales and the medicinal place received its recreational license. When medicinal sales were being discussed groups came pouring out to say how this would showcase a moral downfall for Effingham...no comment on alcohol though. With recreational, the same groups came out to say THIS would be showcasing the moral downfall for Effingham...no comment on the previous moral downfalling.
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