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"The Illinois Senate convenes at the Illinois State Capitol in Springfield, Illinois. Its first official working day is the second Wednesday of January each year. Its primary duties are to pass bills into law, approve the state budget, confirm appointments to state departments and agencies, act on federal constitutional amendments and propose constitutional amendments for Illinois. It also has the power to override gubernatorial vetoes through a three-fifths majority vote. The Illinois Senate tries impeachments made by the House of Representatives, and can convict impeached officers by a two-thirds vote." Illinois Senate - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Absolutely. Because he is. And he surrounds himself with corrupt people. Don't think that by attacking another candidate you somehow let your guy off the hook. The difference, in this case, is that you see Obama as offering suspected or potential corruption based on where he is from. Bush has ushered in an era of real and unabashed corruption. Suspicion vs reality.
I'm not saying everyone in IL......just everyone running your gov. or close to everyone. If the more than half the bunch is corrupt then you can include all of them.
Bush isn't running again so why would you want to replace one "corrupt" government with another...
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To think your wonderful senator is anything but just like the others is a horrible mistake. You can keep him if you like him so much.
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Now that's the best idea I've heard all day!!! Particularly as everyone awaits their text message from Obama as if it's word from the Messiah himself.
Keep dragging it out, Barack ... everyone is waiting breathlessly.
He hates businesses to grow, he wants to over tax them and take their profits away, thus why so many businesses have left his own state.
If he is such an economic genius then why did he still owe college loans into his 40's and why did he have to borrow 300k on his house when he has made 7 million dollars in the last 3 years alone.[/quote]
I don't understand why you even started this post - you don't know anything about IL. You said you live in a beach town.
Obama "hates business to grow"? Um, right. That is one of your best statements yet!
As for student loans, sorry to inform you, but unfortunately it is very normal to have student loan debt into your 40s. Especially when you went to not one but TWO extremely high ranking schools.
Has anyone mentioned how HIGH Illinois property taxes are? Illinois citizens pay one of the highest property taxes in the nation...
food for thought!
We pay the 7th highest property taxes in the US, after new jersey, new hampshire (a traditionally red state), Connecticut, new york, and Massachusetts.
So yes, IL is in the top ten, but there are quite a few states before US in property tax rates.
Things are not as dismal here as certain people would like to suggest.
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Particularly as everyone awaits their text message from Obama as if it's word from the Messiah himself.
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