Nugent: Gun-free zones are recipe for disaster

"...Evil is as evil does, and laws disarming guaranteed victims make evil people very, very happy. Shame on us.
Already spineless gun control advocates are squawking like chickens with their tiny-brained heads chopped off, making political hay over this most recent, devastating Virginia Tech massacre, when in fact it is their own forced gun-free zone policy that enabled the unchallenged methodical murder of 32 people..."
Nugent: Gun-free zones are recipe for disaster

RODZILLA!

Coming this spring to Illinois!
Rodzilla!

iPod Liberal Lunacy

An iPod for every kid?
The Detroit News
"...We have come to the conclusion that the crisis Michigan faces is not a shortage of revenue, but an excess of idiocy. Facing a budget deficit that has passed the $1 billion mark, House Democrats Thursday offered a spending plan that would buy a MP3 player or iPod for every school child in Michigan."

It seems that Gov. Blagojevich and the Illinois Dems have spread the disease of "fair tax and spend lunacy" to our neighbor to the north.

Blagojevich's new tax pyramiding scheme

Guv's big new biz tax blitz
Crain's Chicago Business

Big biz, small biz: Blago may have tax for you (Quad Cities Online - subscription required)
Kim Maisch, Illinois director of the National Federation of Independent Businesses said, "The concept of a gross-receipts tax is really anti-free enterprise."

I think that our governor should look to see how this is working out in New Mexico before causing a pyramiding taxation disaster for Illinois busisnesses just to further fund his outlandish spending habits. A Gross Receipts Tax is regressive and unfair to citizens and businesses located in our state and to consumers everywhere.

New Mexico's Gross Receipts Tax:
What Not to Do in State Taxation

Warning to other states...
"In their new study, “New Mexico’s Harmful Gross Receipts Tax: A Warning to Other States,” Dr. Harry Messenheimer and Paul Gessing expose the ways in which services are often taxed multiple times for a single transaction. The authors also explain why gross receipts taxes like New Mexico’s are a boon to special interests, but killers for economic growth..." click here for more from FreeLiberal.com about this study...

The study can be found online here in pdf.

Blago refuses to return dirty money to Arab group

Blagojevich: Campaign contributions stay (Free Chicago Tribune subscription required)
Gov. Rod Blagojevich said Wednesday that he would not return campaign contributions raised by an Arab-American organization (the Arab American Democratic Club) even though an internal investigation determined the state employee who heads the group organized a Blagojevich fundraiser on state time.

Illinois governor keeps illicit contributions
AmericanThinker.com

The Culture of Corruption is alive and well in the Illinois Democrat Party, and in Blago's campaign and administration as well.

Tony Rezko indicted. Is Blago public official A?

Blagojevich's boss, Tony Rezko, is indicted in kickback scheme
Click here to see the indictment.

Blagojevich has acknowledged that the FBI interviewed him last year in connection with a corruption probe of administration associates.
Weeks after that interview, Blagojevich amended his previous year's gift-disclosure form to add names that hadn't previously been on it.
Those added names included Antoin "Tony" Rezko, a Blagojevich fundraiser whose real estate transactions with Blagojevich's wife, Patti Blagojevich, netted her more than $30,000 in profits in 2004, according to the family's tax return; Betty Bukraba, a Blagojevich family baby sitter whom Blagojevich appointed in 2003 to a $21,507 position on the state's Civil Service Commission; and Beverly and Michael Ascaridis.
Michael Ascaridis is an old Blagojevich friend and campaign treasurer, and Beverly Ascaridis is a state parks administrator whom Blagojevich appointed in 2003.

Blagojevich fundraiser indicted (free Chicago Tribune subscription required)
A federal grand jury has indicted Antoin "Tony" Rezko, a top fundraiser for Gov. Rod Blagojevich, on charges that he demanded millions of dollars in kickbacks from investment firms seeking business from the state teachers' pension system, according to an indictment unsealed today.

Blagojevich Ad Blitz Net Zero - Constitutional Atrocity

Ad blitz doesn’t pull Blagojevich ratings up
By Kevin McDermott
POST-DISPATCH SPRINGFIELD BUREAU
09/02/2006
SPRINGFIELD, ILL.
A multimillion-dollar television advertising blitz hasn't bought Gov. Rod Blagojevich a single percentage point of increased popularity in recent months, according to a new poll that shows his support among Illinoisans still stuck below 50 percent going into his fall re-election race.

"Governor Blagojevich has been criticized by the Illinois State Rifle Association,
saying that "Rod should spend more time catching criminals and less time controlling guns." His support for tightening the already strict gun laws of Illinois has earned him the ire of gun rights groups." (wikipedia)


Constitutional Atrocity
Archive for Uncle's 'Incumbent Protection Act' category

Blago Watch - What's He Thinking?

BlagoWatch.com

What's He Thinking?

What's she thinking?

Blogo's Big Dirty Dollar Ad campaign: "What's she thinking?"



Judy:
"I take him out in November"

Blago Lobbying For Gun Ban

This story at SouthernIllinoisan.com says that Rod Blagojevich has called on the General Assembly to approve a gun ban.

He faces an uphill battle that he won't win, and he knows it, but he must think that it appears PC to his liberal, Chicago oriented power brokers/money men, Pressure washing companies and many other pay to play supporters.

Gov. Blagojevich hosing taxpayers?

According to John O'Connor, in an article carried by AP, Governor Blagojevich supporter and major contributer, PWS Environmental Inc., has received $522,000.00 in contracts with the state for work that experts say is unnecessary or could be performed less expensively by state employees.
Read the story here.

The quotes below, from the story, make it look like there was blatant corruption in the awarding of power washing and salt storage building cleaning contracts.

"PWS was an early backer of Blagojevich, first giving to the Democrat's gubernatorial campaign in June 2000, according to state records. The company and President William Mologousis have contributed a combined $24,780 to Blagojevich and $5,670 to his father-in-law, Chicago Alderman Richard Mell, or Mell's 33rd Ward Democratic organization.
Mologousis said the contributions and contracts were not related. He pointed out that the master contract the company won was competitively bid, although state records show PWS was the only bidder.
PWS Environmental has received contracts for $522,000 in state work this year, up from just $2,860 in 2001. Blagojevich took office in 2003."


This is but the most recent of a growing list of shady deals that seem to keep backtracking to Gov. Blago.
Is Gov. Blagojevich trying to outdo the legacy of George Ryan? Can we expect "the candidate Blagojevich" that claimed to want to change the way things work in Springfield to continue to fulfill his promise? He's changing things, alright. He may be making it dirtier and more corrupt than it ever was.

Illinois needs to cleanse itself of its national image of political corruption. Let's start at the top, and make Illinois a national model of how to serve the people of the state well, instead of how best to hose them.