From Chicago Tribune:

They lost the governor’s race and are still a minority in the General Assembly, but Illinois Republicans say voters have offered up no mandate for Democrats to raise taxes or continue “out-of-control” borrowing.

As lawmakers return to Springfield this week for their fall session, Republican leaders aren’t swaggering about their party’s overall gains in midterm elections. But neither are they conceding that Gov. Pat Quinn or his fellow Democrats in the legislature can continue to run government the way they have.

Quinn’s win won’t mean carte-blanche support for an income tax increase, they say, even though he’s advocated one for nearly two years before winning election on that pledge, claiming for his own the post he took over when Rod Blagojevich was impeached and ousted.

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