Ex-Speaker Hastert, SIU President Poshard Launch Capital Projects "Listening Tour" Why Will Gov. Blunt of Missouri Be Listening?

(Chicago, IL) – Former U.S. House Speaker Dennis Hastert and Southern Illinois University President Glenn Poshard, co-chairs of the recently-minted Illinois Works Coalition, on March 19 launched a statewide listening tour in Decatur.

Hastert and Poshard were promoting Gov. Rod Blagojevich's Illinois Works scheme, a $25 billion capital program to build or rebuild the state's creaking and wheezing infrastructure, a plan which would generate approximately 700,000 jobs, according to Gov. Blagojevich's office.

One of the people who likely will be listening to the feedback from the Hastert-Poshard listening fest, specifically about bridge money, will be Gov. Matt Blunt of Missouri.

Why?

Gov. Blunt will be listening because on February 28, 2008 Blagojevich and Blunt announced an agreement to construct a new four-lane, $640 million bridge across the Mississippi River from East St. Louis to St. Louis.

Read more details at the Your Two Cents Less blog.

David Ormsby