Word: quinns
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...what would Quinn - whose office has acknowledged that the state's accumulated debt could be $5 billion and climbing - do to get the state back on track? "The lieutenant governor has said the priorities are ethics reform, the economy and then the state budget crisis," Reed says. "Any one of those would be enough for anybody, but taken together, it's a tall order...
Some legislative leaders have suggested that Quinn, once he takes over as governor, get an extension on filing the budget. "The budget underlies everything," Radogno says. "It's the priorities of the state. If we can't have that, we can't deal with these things...
...have a serious governance problem," says Bob Reed, a top aide to Democratic Lieutenant Governor Pat Quinn, who is taking over now that Blagojevich has been ousted. "So much attention has been focused on the impeachment and now the trial that everything else has been placed on the back burner...
...Burris' admission, with Representative Bobby Rush calling the Senate the "last bastion of plantation politics." After initially dismissing the appointment out of hand, Dems have been put on the defensive, and they are now quick to say that if Burris were to be appointed by Lieut. Governor Pat Quinn, they would accept Burris with open arms. "This is a lose-lose situation for Reid and the Democrats," says Mark J. Rozell, a political science professor at George Mason University in Virginia. "They can either look like they are accepting the choice of a corrupt governor who tried to sell...
...ugly as Tuesday's scene was, it may end up buying the Dems enough time to deal with the Burris appointment. Since Blagojevich could be impeached as early as next week, a bureaucratic delay would allow Quinn to then make what would be considered a legitimate appointment. All of this may seem like an internal party squabble, but Democrats say the GOP is waiting in the wings, ready to object to Burris and demand a special election (as Illinois Republicans unsuccessfully tried to do a few weeks ago); given the way Blagojevich has dragged down the local party in recent...