2:43 PM
As entered on this blog, education grant abuses were reported by The Chicago Tribune. Initiatives that would have prevented these abuses were "shot down"by the Democrat led senate. This was brought to light locally by Bernie Theirgart, who has been reviewing state government fo several years.
His letter to the editor in the Rock Island Argus/Moline Dispatch on August 2nd is very commendable. Bernie has brought to light the very fact that too many downstate legislators have gone along with the status quo that sends so many of our tax dollars to Chicago, even when past abuses were revealed in 2006.
Remember that the investigation into this was done by a media outlet. Abuses were not prevented by legislation that was sponsored by the senate minority Republicans. There certainly is more need for accountability in state government and the status quo seems not to want to do anything about it.
His letter to the editor in the Rock Island Argus/Moline Dispatch on August 2nd is very commendable. Bernie has brought to light the very fact that too many downstate legislators have gone along with the status quo that sends so many of our tax dollars to Chicago, even when past abuses were revealed in 2006.
Remember that the investigation into this was done by a media outlet. Abuses were not prevented by legislation that was sponsored by the senate minority Republicans. There certainly is more need for accountability in state government and the status quo seems not to want to do anything about it.