{"id":235390,"date":"2010-01-26T18:49:30","date_gmt":"2010-01-26T23:49:30","guid":{"rendered":"tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d8341c60fd53ef0128771722b4970c"},"modified":"2010-01-26T18:49:30","modified_gmt":"2010-01-26T23:49:30","slug":"ex-gov-edgar-decries-attack-ads-but-they-worked-for-him","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/235390","title":{"rendered":"Ex-Gov. Edgar decries attack ads, but they worked for him"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Posted by Rick Pearson<\/em> at 5:50 p.m.<br \/><\/br><br \/><\/br>Former Republican Gov. Jim Edgar today decried TV attack ads against his favored candidate for governor, saying he thinks \u201cthe voters deserve better.\u201d<br \/><\/br><\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s unfortunate that we are again in the \u2018silly season\u2019 of the campaign,\u201d Edgar said, in defending Republican governor candidate Sen. Kirk Dillard, a Hinsdale lawmaker who was his first chief of staff in the governor\u2019s office.\n<\/p>\n<p>The former governor largely was sounding off against ads being aired by GOP rival Andy McKenna contending that Dillard won\u2019t rule out higher taxes. In a statement from Dillard\u2019s campaign, Edgar noted Dillard \u201cnever voted for a general tax increase.\u201d Dillard, however, did vote for a controversial suburban sales tax increase to help fund Chicago area mass transit.<\/p>\n<p>While Edgar decried attacks ads, he made use of them when he was running for re-election in 1994.<\/p>\n<p>Back then, Edgar created a mantra that Netsch supported a \u201c42 percent income-tax increase\u201d without mentioning that she also backed an accompanying reduction in property taxes. Later, in his second-term, he proposed a similar \u201ctax swap\u201d plan but it failed in the legislature.<\/p>\n<p>Edgar also contended Netsch backed higher taxes \u201c23 times\u201d as a state lawmaker, though Republican lawmakers also often voted for those same taxes. <br \/><\/br><br \/><\/br>And Edgar attacked Netsch for wanting to abolish the death penalty as part of an overall soft-on-crime strategy that the Republican incumbent was able to use against the liberal Democrat. At the time, Netsch had said she would sign legislation to abolish the death penalty&#8211;but would uphold the law and didn\u2019t expect the legislature to send her such a bill.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Posted by Rick Pearson at 5:50 p.m.Former Republican Gov. Jim Edgar today decried TV attack ads against his favored candidate for governor, saying he thinks \u201cthe voters deserve better.\u201d \u201cIt\u2019s unfortunate that we are again in the \u2018silly season\u2019 of the campaign,\u201d Edgar said, in defending Republican governor candidate Sen. Kirk Dillard, a Hinsdale lawmaker [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3992,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-235390","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/235390","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3992"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=235390"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/235390\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=235390"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=235390"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=235390"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}