In a desperate dirty tricks
attempt to illegally sneak our taxes dollars to their
favorite churches and parochial schools and to conceal
it from me,
Speaker Mike Madigan and the
Illinois General Assembly
secretly transferred the proposed unconstitutional
donations from
House Bill 313 Senate Amendment 3 to
Senate Bill 1221 House Amendment 3.
Illinois House Speaker Mike Madigan, admiring his
daughter, Lisa, the Illinois Attorney General,
at one of her news conferences. Obviously a sign
of great parenting!
Photo by Rob Sherman. Click on photo for larger
image.
Thanks to information
provided to me by Burt in the Skokie district office of
State Representative Lou Lang, they didn't get away
with it. I caught them, and now I'm going to stop them.
You remember the 972-page House Bill 313 Senate
Amendment 3, don't you? I wrote about it six times last
month, in these stories:
June 4:
Illinois General Assembly donates your tax dollars to
their favorite churches
June 5:
Rep. Jack Franks explains how pork Bill got approved
June 9:
Governor's Office responds to Sherman regarding Pork
Bill
June 11:
Rep. Lou Lang comments on Pork Bill
June 16:
Legislature must eliminate tax donations to churches and
parochial schools
June 30:
Governor asked to veto donations to churches, parochial
schools
House Bill 313 passed both
houses of the legislature, but as a result of a
procedural maneuver, the Bill was not yet sent to the
Governor for his signature.
Rep. Lou Lang filed a Motion to Re-consider on the
Bill, so that kept the Bill in the House. The theory
was, as long as the Bill remained in the House on the
Motion to Re-consider, the churches and parochial
schools wouldn't get the money.
So, the plan was to monitor
House Bill 313 to make sure that, if and when it did
move, Governor Quinn would do a line-item veto of the
unconstitutional parts. Monitoring the Bill is easy, by
simply checking the
House Bill 313 Status Page every day. If you check
the Bill Status Page, you'll find that Rep. Lang's
Motion to Re-Consider is still pending, so our atheist
tax dollars still seemed safe.
But
God didn't make no dumb
atheists.
News rumors began to swirl, yesterday, that Governor
Quinn was going to sign "the Capital Bill" on Monday
(July 13th). But, wait a second, Lou Lang still has a
"Hold" on the Capital Bill. What's going on?
So, I called Lou's office, this morning, to
investigate.
After doing some research,
Burt in Lou's office told me that, yes, Lou still had a
"Hold" on HB311, but the spending provisions of 972-page
HB311 apparently have been quietly transferred by Mike
Madigan's 996-page Capital Bill,
House Amendment 3 to Senate Bill 1221, and
that SB1221 was released and sent to the Governor,
yesterday (July 9). All of the donations of our tax
dollars by the General Assembly to churches and
parochial schools had been switched by Madigan from
HB311 to SB1221.
Obviously, Madigan was hoping that approval of those
expenditures could sneak through without me noticing it,
so that they could get away with making unconstitutional
donations of tax dollars to churches and parochial
schools without being caught. Madigan was hoping that,
while I was watching for movement on HB313, while I was
staking out HB313, SB1221 would tiptoe through,
unnoticed by me.
Not so fast, Mr. Madigan. I'm on to your scam, and
you've been caught.
My attorney on these matters, Green Party candidate
for Governor Richard Whitney, and I have begun the
process to block each and every one of those donations.
We did it, successfully, regarding the scam by Rod to
donate one million tax dollars to Pilgrim Baptist
Church. Now, we are going to block the hundreds of
proposals (line items) to donate tens of millions of our
atheist tax dollars to churches and parochial schools.
These illegal donations can be stopped without a
lawsuit, by Pat Quinn doing a line-item veto of each and
every one of those improper appropriations, or these
donations will be stopped with the State of Illinois
suffering through a long, expensive and losing
lawsuit. Either way, these unconstitutional donations
WILL be stopped.
Stay tuned.
