{"id":543755,"date":"2010-04-26T20:00:03","date_gmt":"2010-04-27T00:00:03","guid":{"rendered":"tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d8341c60fd53ef01348029a3f5970c"},"modified":"2010-04-26T20:00:03","modified_gmt":"2010-04-27T00:00:03","slug":"quinn-still-talking-tax-hike-but-are-leaders-listening","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/543755","title":{"rendered":"Quinn still talking tax hike, but are leaders listening?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Posted by Monique Garcia <\/em>at 6:59 p.m. <\/p>\n<p>Gov. Pat Quinn declared again today he will fight for an income tax increase before lawmakers leave Springfield in coming weeks, despite criticism from a budget watchdog group and lack of support from fellow Democrats.<\/p>\n<p>Quinn responded to a report from the Civic Federation that criticized his budget proposal for failing to make tough cuts before seeking a tax hike. He disagreed with their conclusion and said the tax increase is crucial to maintaining state funding for public schools.<br \/><\/br><br \/><\/br><\/p>\n<p>&quot;We&#8217;ve got to have good schools, good education, and this governor is going to fight until the last dog dies for schools and for education and for children,&quot; Quinn said.<br \/><\/br><br \/><\/br>But when asked how he will persuade reluctant legislative leaders to call a vote on his tax proposal before adjourning in a matter of weeks, Quinn offered only generalities about his relationship with House Speaker Michael Madigan and Senate President John Cullerton. Like Quinn, they are Chicago Democrats.<br \/><\/br><br \/><\/br>&quot;I talk to them all the time, we have a good relationship, we&#8217;ll be talking tomorrow,&quot; Quinn said. &quot;My expectation is as we go through this remainder (of) April and into May, that we will get proper resources for education (come) hell or high water.&quot;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Posted by Monique Garcia at 6:59 p.m. Gov. Pat Quinn declared again today he will fight for an income tax increase before lawmakers leave Springfield in coming weeks, despite criticism from a budget watchdog group and lack of support from fellow Democrats. Quinn responded to a report from the Civic Federation that criticized his budget [&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-543755","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/543755","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=543755"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/543755\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=543755"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=543755"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=543755"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}