Road Closed
Although this photograph is from last May when our family visited the Old Capitol Art Fair, it seems appropriate for Republicans this Inauguration Day in Springfield.
ROADIt’s located on East Capitol Street, just east of Sixth Street.
CLOSED
It’s right down the street from the Governor’s now usually unoccupied Mansion.
What a change this year is from 1994, when the Republican Party captured every statewide office, plus control of both chambers in the General Assembly.
I served in Springfield 16 years—8 in the 1970’s and 8 in the 1990’s. There was a GOP House Speaker only twice.
Posted first on McHenry County Blog.
4 comments:
I barely remember the two year speakership of Lee Daniels. Under his speakership the Chicago Public School fell under the direct control of Mayor Daley. That's the only policy that I can recall that passed on his watch.
Of course this leads to the next question. Why couldn't the Republicans manage to elect a speaker very often?
You should give Lee credit for allowing Cook County residents to appeal their real estate assessments to the State Property Tax Appeals Board.
The rest of the state had had that power since the Ogilvie administration.
What they was supposed to do was to bring consistency to the Cook County aseessment process. Prior to allowing the appeals to the State Property Tax Appeals Board, the Cook County Assessor and Board of (Tax) Appeals had no oversight, but the Cook County court system.
And, to get into court, one had to prove something called "constructive fraud." Now someone appealing does not have to prove the Cook County assessor is essentially a crook. He now can just claim a mistake was made that resulted in his property being assessed higher than it should be.
The goal was to eliminate the "fix is in" approach to Cook County assessments that can and has been ably traced back to the Depression in one book I have read.
I believe there is more reform necessary, e.g., a leveling of the assessment percentages on a towhchip-by-township bases, as is done in most, if not all of the suburban counties.
That would result in more modest assessment increases on an annual basis, rather than big leaps every three years.
But Assessor Houlihan refuses to ask for this same authority that all other assessors in Illinois have.
Doesn't that send a message about what the people of Illinois think about you and your fellow Republicans? Even you should be able to figure that one out by now.
But the Democrats keep trying to keep up in the corruption game. Note my latest post about another Chicago Democrat being arrested.
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