{"id":542192,"date":"2010-04-23T14:44:20","date_gmt":"2010-04-23T18:44:20","guid":{"rendered":"tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d8341c60fd53ef0133ece62652970b"},"modified":"2010-04-23T17:28:58","modified_gmt":"2010-04-23T21:28:58","slug":"republican-governor-hopeful-brady-reports-major-income-drop-as-housing-market-struggles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/542192","title":{"rendered":"Republican governor hopeful Brady reports major income drop as housing market struggles"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Posted by Tribune staff<\/em> at 1:40 p.m.; <strong>updated at 4:28 p.m.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Republican governor candidate Bill Brady&#8217;s income fell from more than half a million dollars a year in 2004 to less than $120,000 last year as his family home building business struggles along with the housing market, his campaign said today.<\/p>\n<p>Brady&#8217;s adjusted gross income was $558,798 in 2004, but fell to $119,910 in 2009, his campaign said in a news release. Brady reported a loss in 2008 of $116,679.<\/p>\n<p>Brady also paid no federal income tax in 2008 and 2009, according to a campaign news release. He paid nearly $41,700 in federal taxes in 2007, $1,228 in 2006 and $124,255 in 2005, according to the campaign.<br \/><\/br>\n<\/p>\n<p>The downstate senator from Bloomington said on Thursday that his returns would reflect the recession&#8217;s impact.<\/p>\n<p>&quot;They will show that my family business is struggling in an economy that<br \/>\n has been a burden on all businesses in Illinois. It has not been good,&quot;<br \/>\n said Brady, whose construction business made him wealthy during the boom years of the<br \/>\n1990s.<\/p>\n<p>Responding to pressure from Democratic Gov. Pat Quinn to release his tax<br \/>\n returns, Brady is making them available to reporters at his Springfield<br \/>\ncampaign headquarters for three hours this afternoon.<\/p>\n<p>Quinn released his tax returns <a href=\"http:\/\/newsblogs.chicagotribune.com\/clout_st\/2010\/04\/quinn-releases-tax-returns-calls-on-foe-to-do-same.html\">earlier this week<\/a>. Quinn reported an adjusted gross income of $157,122 in 2009, including<br \/>\nhis salary as governor, interest income and withdrawal from his pension<br \/>\naccount. He paid $27,547 in federal income tax and $4,468 in state<br \/>\nincome tax. Quinn became governor in late January after his two time running mate, Gov. Rod Blagojevich, was<br \/>\nimpeached and removed by the General Assembly. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Posted by Tribune staff at 1:40 p.m.; updated at 4:28 p.m. Republican governor candidate Bill Brady&#8217;s income fell from more than half a million dollars a year in 2004 to less than $120,000 last year as his family home building business struggles along with the housing market, his campaign said today. Brady&#8217;s adjusted gross income [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3992,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-542192","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/542192","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=542192"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/542192\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=542192"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=542192"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=542192"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}