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	<title>The Capitol Fax Blog</title>
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	<pubDate>Thu, 11 Mar 2010 21:17:55 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>Blagojevich wants trial delayed</title>
		<link>http://thecapitolfaxblog.com/2010/03/11/blagojevich-wants-trial-delayed/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 11 Mar 2010 21:17:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rich Miller</dc:creator>
		
	<category>Illinois</category>
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		<description><![CDATA[ * Illinois Democrats haven&#8217;t gotten a break in a long while, but one might be coming from an unlikely source&#8230;
Former Gov. Rod Blagojevich has repeatedly said he&#8217;s looking forward to clearing his name at his trial. 
But now he wants that trial to start five months later than scheduled. Lawyers for the indicted governor [...]]]></description>
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		<title>March primary bill goes to governor</title>
		<link>http://thecapitolfaxblog.com/2010/03/11/march-primary-bill-goes-to-governor/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 11 Mar 2010 20:39:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rich Miller</dc:creator>
		
	<category>Illinois</category>
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		<description><![CDATA[ * The February primary experiment was a failure.  I think a lot of folks would like a total do-over.  We can&#8217;t do that, but the primary date can be moved back where it was&#8230;
Illinois&#8217; primary election would be pushed back to March under legislation the House sent to Gov. Pat Quinn today.
If [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Whitney lays out his plans</title>
		<link>http://thecapitolfaxblog.com/2010/03/11/whitney-lays-out-his-plans/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 11 Mar 2010 19:55:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rich Miller</dc:creator>
		
	<category>Illinois</category>
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		<description><![CDATA[ * Green Party gubernatorial nominee Rich Whitney outlined his budget and economic plan today at a Statehouse press conference.  
Among other things, he wants a forensic audit of state government&#8230;
 Convene an independent commission of citizens, drawn from both the private and public sector to examine the budget with a fresh set of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Question of the day</title>
		<link>http://thecapitolfaxblog.com/2010/03/11/question-of-the-day-912/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 11 Mar 2010 16:35:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rich Miller</dc:creator>
		
	<category>Illinois</category>
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		<description><![CDATA[ * This was one of the reactions to Gov. Quinn&#8217;s budget proposal, which included a $2500 per worker tax credit for small businesses that hire new employees&#8230;
“Small-business owners don’t need tax credits. They need customers,” Kim Clarke Maisch, state director of the National Federation of Independent Business, said while noting economic growth comes from [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Daley backs Turner and Rasmussen has new numbers</title>
		<link>http://thecapitolfaxblog.com/2010/03/11/daley-backs-turner-and-rasmussen-has-new-numbers/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 11 Mar 2010 16:31:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rich Miller</dc:creator>
		
	<category>Illinois</category>
	<category>Polls</category>
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		<description><![CDATA[ * To say this is a big boost would just be too obvious, so I&#8217;ll just skip that and go right to the story&#8230;
Mayor Daley today endorsed the runner-up in the Democratic primary for lieutenant governor — State Rep. Art Turner (D-Chicago) — in the political sweepstakes to replace Chicago pawnbroker Scott Lee Cohen. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Brady vs. Quinn on the budget</title>
		<link>http://thecapitolfaxblog.com/2010/03/11/brady-vs-quinn-on-the-budget/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 11 Mar 2010 15:53:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rich Miller</dc:creator>
		
	<category>Illinois</category>
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		<description><![CDATA[ * Quote of the day goes to Sen. Bill Brady, who complained about Gov. Pat Quinn&#8217;s budget yesterday&#8230;
“It seems to me that what he’s simply doing here is ignoring the problem, kicking the can down the road, trying to make it past the election,” Brady said. “I frankly wonder if he’s planning on being [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Dead</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 11 Mar 2010 15:26:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rich Miller</dc:creator>
		
	<category>Illinois</category>
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		<description><![CDATA[ * The headline on Kristen McQueary&#8217;s column pretty much sums it up&#8230;
Budget plan is clever, but D.O.A.
Tactically, this would normally be a decent move.  Raise taxes for schools.  That&#8217;s how income taxes were raised here in 1987, all the money went to schools and local governments.  
Politically, however, this is dead.
 [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Morning Shorts</title>
		<link>http://thecapitolfaxblog.com/2010/03/11/morning-shorts-871/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 11 Mar 2010 14:46:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rich Miller</dc:creator>
		
	<category>Illinois</category>
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		<description><![CDATA[* Daley: Day of reckoning for financial crisis 
Mayor Daley warned today that the day of reckoning has arrived for a financial crisis that’s choking local taxpayers: underfunded city pensions.
Daley said the 32-member pension commission he created more than two years ago will soon recommend solutions to the crisis that won’t be pretty or politically [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Protected: SUBSCRIBERS ONLY - Today&#8217;s edition of Capitol Fax (use all CAPS in password)</title>
		<link>http://thecapitolfaxblog.com/2010/03/11/subscribers-only-todays-edition-of-capitol-fax-use-all-caps-in-password-66/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 11 Mar 2010 14:17:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rich Miller</dc:creator>
		
	<category>Illinois</category>
	<category>Subscriber Content</category>
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		<description><![CDATA[There is no excerpt because this is a protected post.]]></description>
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		<title>Post budget speech interviews, media avails</title>
		<link>http://thecapitolfaxblog.com/2010/03/10/post-budget-speech-interviews-media-avails/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 10 Mar 2010 19:20:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rich Miller</dc:creator>
		
	<category>Illinois</category>
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		<description><![CDATA[* Speaker Madigan talked to Public TV after the governor&#8217;s speech.  We taped it off a monitor. Have a look&#8230;




 * Tom Cross spoke to me just after the speech and was pretty harsh&#8230;




* Senate President John Cullerton spoke to reporters for nearly 20 minutes in his office following the speech. Video in two [...]]]></description>
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