Rauner To Seek Some Common Ground In State Of The State Speech

A senior official with his administration says Rauner will announce a “government transformation” effort that looks to improve IT, alleviate red-tape from procurement rules, and to revise state’s economic development agency, often known by the acronym DCEO. That’s increasing the state’s debt because the spending is based on revenue levels from past year, before Illinois’ income tax rate dropped.

IL governor Bruce Rauner talks with supporters after a preview of the State of the State at the I-Hotel Ballroom on Thursday, Jan. 29, 2015.

With contract deadlines approaching for the 40,000-member AFSCME, the state’s largest public-worker union, and for Chicago public teachers, Rauner has said he doesn’t want strikes, but if they happen, “We’ll win”.

“This has been probably the worst start of any legislative year in the history of the state”.

In a news release, State Senator Andy Manar said, “The governor’s firm commitment to embrace school funding reform is a major, positive step to end this decades-old crisis, prioritize the real needs of students and ensure that every child has the same access to opportunities”.

As far as Rauner’s education, it declared that he “graduated summa cum laude with a degree in economics and f-ing up a whole state”. “We need fundamental, dramatic change in IL…” It would give state workers and retirees a choice in retirement benefits.

The group says Governor Bruce Rauner and the general assembly have failed to put a budget first.

The governor also will pitch changes to how the state delivers health care and human services, an area where IL spends billions each year but that Rauner will describe as “a broken patchwork of reactive, expensive, and ineffective interventions”. Democrats have refused, saying those changes will hurt working families and drive down wages while helping Illinois’ highest earners get richer.

Rauner told lawmakers he wants to lower the prison population by 25 percent by 2025 by implementing suggestions from a commission he convened previous year to study the issue.

IL has been operating without a budget as of July of previous year when the Democratic-controlled legislature was not able to come to terms with the Republican governor on reforms he says would make IL more business-friendly.

Lowering property taxes would provide much needed relief to constituents in District 46, Holan said. Colleges and social services are making drastic cuts and average citizens are suffering while the Governor refuses to negotiate or ask the wealthiest to pay a dime more, despite a majority of IL voters who support exactly that.

“The decisions that are being made for fiscal responsibility are causing so many problems that are going to take so long to take and will cost more money to fix”, Link-Mullison said.