Related: Courting You From Illinois
Judging by the hits you didn't like it, and I don't really like bringing you this $hit-fooley I found in my Globe today:
"Illinois GOP pins hopes on primary" by Sara Burnett and Sophia Tareen | Associated Press March 19, 2014
CHICAGO — To many, the race was shaping up as a potentially transformative battle over union influence, with some voters saying they want to break an alliance between organized labor and Democratic politicians in control of the governor’s mansion and the Legislature.
As if they had any.
Organized labor was battling back out of concern that the leading Republican candidate, multimillionaire venture capitalist Bruce Rauner, could seek to weaken unions in the same way GOP governors have in states across the Midwest.
It's also been Democrats, but that doesn't fit the divisive narrative that needs to be employed by the whoreporate pre$$.
Rauner, a political newcomer who leads the four-person Republican field after spending millions on his campaign, says he would model his governorship after those of Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker and former Indiana governor Mitch Daniels, who both significantly rolled back union power in their states in what they said were necessary steps to attract businesses and reduce costs....
What power?
Related: Walker's Woes
Let the bull(shit) begin:
Tom Sommer, a 57-year-old real estate broker from the southwest Chicago suburb of Hinsdale, said he voted for Rauner because of his tough talk against the unions that represent public sector workers.
Believe me, I have no love for the public sector and yet those were allegedly negotiated contracts. It is not lo$t on me that bank executive contracts are $acro$anct while unions (like the GM auto workers) can be ripped open. That's why I now call it AmeriKa.
The sentiment persists despite Democratic Governor Pat Quinn’s push to right the state’s finances by overhauling the heavily underfunded public pension systems, which earned him the unions’ ire.
If he is your "friend" then....
Union leaders, meanwhile, sought Rauner’s defeat by encouraging members to pull Republican primary ballots and vote for state Senators Kirk Dillard, who has been endorsed by three of the state’s largest public-employee unions.
Republicans haven’t held the Illinois governor’s office since 2003, and Democrats have almost total control of other statewide offices as well as the House and Senate.
Well, it's since 2006 here, but that might be changing.
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Soon we will all be like Michigan.
"Teacher gave class nonalcoholic beer" The Flint Journal March 19, 2014
LINDEN, Mich. — A Michigan teacher made a poor choice by giving nonalcoholic beer to a class of fifth-graders in a history lesson, a school official said.
Superintendent Ed Koledo said the teacher allowed Hyatt Elementary students in Linden to sample O’Doul’s that had been brought to school by a student March 6 to represent ale common in the 1700s. The students were told that many people drank ale at the time because water was sometimes dirty or unhealthy.
Maybe we will all be going back to it soon, given the ongoing crisis at Fukushima and the the spooled Gulf of Mexico.
‘‘We talked to the teacher and said this was an inappropriate choice,’’ Koledo said.
The students were allowed a small taste but none were forced to try the nonalcoholic beer, school officials said. Koledo, who did not identify the teacher, said allowing nonalcoholic beer into the classroom and allowing students to drink it was a mistake.
Must be of a certain tribe.
Hyatt principal Vicki Malkaravage sent a letter to parents on Friday informing them of what happened, The Flint Journal reported. The teacher thought O’Doul’s would be OK because the label said it was a nonalcoholic beverage, according to the letter. Three students in the class also took a bottle home, she said.
O’Doul’s is advertised as nonalcoholic beer, but it contains a small amount of alcohol.
More Orwellian euphemisms as I withdraw from this post.
Not really nonalcoholic, is it?
And George W. Bush was downing them late in his second term.
No one has been charged.
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