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| RAUNER: He tampered w/ Lege money |
Among the three events either he or his spouse, Diana, will do during the day is to sign a bill “freezing legislative per diems.”
AS
IN THE $111 daily payments that members of the General Assembly receive when
they are at the state Capitol. The money is meant to cover the cost of their
meals while in Springfield (not that the Illinois capital city has much to
offer in the way of fine dining) and housing – whether they choose to rent an
apartment or stay at a hotel.
Since
another Rauner public event for the day will be to offer up public comment when
the General Assembly completes its activity on what is supposed to be the
beginning of another special session related to the education funding bill, it
really comes across as though the governor is docking legislators their
allowance because they’re being bad.
As
in refusing to advance the education funding bill to him so he can impose the
amendatory veto that Democratic leadership of the General Assembly is trying to
thwart.
Now
I’m not necessarily feeling sorry for legislators losing some money (although I
know if I had a job requiring me to travel to another city, I’d expect some financial
help in coping with the added expense).
BUT
THIS MOVE really does come across as being so petty a gesture.
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| MADIGAN: How will Lege retort? |
It almost makes me wonder if Rauner is trying to show he can be more petty and juvenile than our president – the guy whom his campaign has desperately tried to keep distance from for the past year.
Does
this mean our legislators will feel compelled to behave in an equally childish
manner as a retort to losing their money?
And
then we wonder why the non-ideologue segment of the electorate (a.k.a., real
people) just shudder in disgust at the very thought of the nitwits who they
sent to the capitol to do “the people’s business.”
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