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Last Updated on Tuesday, 23 September 2008 11:44 Written by rslcpol Tuesday, 23 September 2008 10:25
This a monumental slap down of Illinois’s Democrat Governor. From Chicago Sun-Times:
In a 55-0 defeat for Gov. Blagojevich, the Senate Monday rejected his rewrite of an ethics package and reinstituted an earlier ban on political contributions from big state contractors who have been the governor’s financial lifeblood.
“This shows he has zero credibility on the issue,” said Comptroller Dan Hynes, who was one of the guiding forces behind the new restrictions.
The override vote, proponents of the original bill said, should spark a crackdown on state contracts being traded for campaign contributions.