‘Perp Walk’: Hot Mic Catches Budget Candor – Quicktake

"On hot mic, @GovRauner asks House GOP leader Jim Durkin (R-Western Springs) why he didn't carry the stack of budget docs out for him to sign. Durkin jokes that he didn't know if that'd be a "perp walk." They know. They all know. Republicans and Democrats alike.
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Rick
5 years ago

Even more sickening Is that Moody’s is in on the scam too. Watch our credit rating actually go up a few points soon. Their bond customers collude with Moody’s, Moody’s colludes with the state, the state colludes with govt employees and unions and actuaries. Lots of back patting going on at the expense of taxpayers and the next 5 generations of kids.

Erik
5 years ago

The legacy media enables their callousness by failing to critically report on the issue.

K L
5 years ago

Stomach turning. Such disrespect for citizens!
We’re hostage to their egos and to their willful blindness.
They must believe they were elected to merely play a role without any real consequences.
May god have NO mercy on their souls!

Bob Out of Here
5 years ago
Reply to  K L

What souls? They clearly have none.

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