•May 24, 2017•

By Jim Nowlan
NP Guest Columnist

If there is no comprehensive full-year state budget by the May 31 end of legislative session in Springfield, I am seriously considering creation of an Illinois political action committee to be called “Throw the Bums Out.” The stated purpose would be to defeat all state legislators, of both parties, as well as Gov. Bruce Rauner.

For three years now, the governor and lawmakers have blatantly failed in their constitutional responsibility to adopt an annual state budget, the fundamental task of any government, or business, for that matter.

As a result, the horrendous pile of unpaid bills and wreckage in higher education and elsewhere have also piled onto our state’s near-laughingstock reputation across the nation for corruption and government dysfunction.     Login or Subscribe to read the rest of this story.