* Gov. Pat Quinn will sign legislation today rolling back the veto override threshold on the Cook County Board. The legislation moves the minimum required vote down from an insane four-fifths to a far more reasonable three-fifths.

Cook County Board President Todd Stroger is opposed to the legislation, but as I told you last week, he was in favor of the proposal during the 2006 campaign.

* Our “Get well, Carlos Hernandez Gomez” post surpassed 200 comments this morning. Thanks. I’m heading up there in a few to see him. I’ll pass along your best wishes.

Carol Marin’s Sun-Times column today talks about Carlos…

Carlos Hernandez Gomez is a reporter with attitude. Streetwise and smart, punky yet sweet. When Carlos walks into a news conference, he brings his own electricity.

Thick black glasses, trimmed black beard, and fedora whenever possible — these are the accessories of a young man whose questions to politicians and prosecutors will not be ignored.

Carlos began his political reporting career at WBEZ radio in Chicago, but in 2005, CLTV hired him away to cover the corruption trial of former Gov. George Ryan.

But you won’t be seeing him on TV for a little while. Carlos, 36, is off the air working on the most challenging story yet to cross his path. It’s the ongoing medical effort to save his life. Diagnosed and operated on for colon cancer on New Year’s Eve of 2008, he has recently had another surgery to scrub the lining of his stomach of malignant cells. His stomach was then pumped with boiling hot chemotherapy to nuke whatever microscopic bits of cancer remained.

“His doctors compare it to getting third-degree burns to your stomach,” said Carlos’ wife, Randi Belisomo, who also is a reporter for CLTV. […]

Since word of his illness was first posted on Rich Miller’s CapitolFaxBlog, get-well wishes have poured in from political enemies Rod Blagojevich and Judy Baar Topinka. Republican gubernatorial candidate Andy McKenna offered prayers. Democratic Cook County Assessor Jim Houlihan arrived with jokes. U.S. Attorney Patrick Fitzgerald quietly popped in, and former U.S. Sen. Adlai Stevenson took Carlos out for a good-luck dinner before the last surgery.

Carlos has people from both sides of the aisle in his corner.

Hang in there, buddy.