Jaydog's Blog

calls,emails,letters,morse code,they will do what they want,and i believe its $20,000 raise
for the gov.guess his hairdresser needs more money

Aaaaahhhhhh, Illinois, the best politicians that money can buy!

Must be nice to be able to vote yourself (or approve, in the case of the governor of the state of North Illinois) a raise, especially when you have no accountability to do the job for which you were hired to do.

This is only the beginning - just wait - Illinois right now has one of the highest taxes on fuel, and even on our homes - that of which are not selling and most are in foreclosures. You can write to the politicians but don't bother to write to Obama - he does not know south of Chicago is still Illinois as he has NEVER RESPONDED to anything you write to him, and you will not get a response from too many of them.

Why does Hot Rod need a raise, we already supply him transportation from Chicago to Springfield since he refuses to live in the capitol city. Plus, I guess the house the governor is supposed to live in is sitting empty. I wonder if they would rent it out j/k. I guess he's gonna stay in the governors seat until the gonvernors cell at the jail is empty, he's more crooked than the past one.

We will always have a problem here in Illinois as long as we have "Chicago Politics" and now it looks like the "Chicago Politics" will end up in D.C. God Bless America.

Yes it is insane, while we're down here working our fingers to the bone struggling to pay bills and trying to keep up with gas prices and food prices, and medical costs, especially if you don't have insurance, I'm really Quite tired of it, and I'm gonna let them know about it,the more people you have the less they can ignore you, the more they know you are watching what they are doing. I'm certainly going to try to shoot this vote down.

really the only hope there is,is to vote them out of office come election time and deal with the same ole crap with the next guy

yeah,they are effective all right,gas 4.00 gal
outrageuous property tax,gov that won't live in springfield,gov telling business owners how to run their business.politicians hiring family ahead of others,metro airport losing millions a year,etc etc,guess the animals are lucky though,at least they listened when it came to them

the house 3 days ago voted on the raises, they rejected the pay raises, it now goes to the Ill senate for a vote there. even if the senate rejects it it might still go into effect, because of a subcommitte that is actually made up of ill citizens that set the ammount of raises the politicians get. I emailed and have talked to a couple of government officials and they said that emails from their constituants would be good ammo to present to the subcommitte, to get them to see that pay raises right now would not be a good idea, especially with elections coming up in november, and most of them want to be reelected, so if you want to try to effect change email your representative so they have the ammo to go to the subcommitte, your already on the computer anyway, you should be able to call the library to get the name of your representative.