Copper doors, closed schools, need for austerity
Harmon and Lilly, Galewood, 9/12/2013

By Jim Bowman
Facing restless voters in the September 12, 2013 town hall meeting at Galewood Community Church, Sen. Don Harmon and Rep. Camille Lilly had another matter thrust before them, . . . .
. . . the recently publicized expensive copper doors for the state capitol, which the questioner said demonstrated a "let them eat cake" attitude.
The money for those doors did not come from general revenues, Harmon explained. It came from the Illinois Jobs Now! program, a capital spending bill signed into law (and nicknamed) by Governor Quinn in 2009.
This program, named as if it was job creation, was to cost $31 billion over six years and was to pay for more along lines of these copper doors -- $17-plus million for two zoos, Brookfield and Lincoln Park, $1.2 million for the Muntu Dance Theater, and $.5 million for the Chicago Baseball Museum and Stadium, to name a few of its beneficiaries -- all of it with accompanying taxation and borrowing.
Raise taxes on "cronies," man said. . . .
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