Madigan, Illinois House Dems Taunt Republicans in Budget Talks

Here’s an excerpt from a recent Reboot Illinois guest view regarding ongoing budget talks:

SPRINGFIELD — In baseball, it’s called a message pitch.

If the batter gets cocky and crowds the plate, the pitcher sends one high and tight to remind everyone there’s more than one party trying to establish advantage and control.

House Speaker Michael Madigan, D-Chicago, appeared to throw just such a message — and then some — at Gov. Bruce Rauner and the GOP Wednesday.

Personally sponsoring an amendment to an existing bill, the speaker proposed a human services budget for fiscal year 2016 that was deeply cut and nearly exactly what Rauner has proposed. The proposed budget included Medicaid.

By Madigan’s own description, the budget he put up Wednesday was $1.2 billion lighter in general fund spending and $1.9 billion lighter in spending from all other revenues.

That left House Republicans in a difficult spot...

To read the rest of this guest view and why House Republicans are calling this a ”political stunt” by Democrats, go to Reboot Illinois.

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