The cuts discussed on the conf call were cuts to the proposed budget introduced by the Governor, not in the Madigan budget. Many human service providers didn't even get any increases in the Gov's budget.
I believe the call ended with the charge "work for the budget you want to see, which we hope is the Gov's"
Bluefish
· 2 years ago
Did Blago himself offer to forego Father's Day with his kids to be in Springfield? Or is that just for members of the House?
fedup dem
· 2 years ago
It really must have been a SLOW news day yesterday. To ask in a headline if Gov. Sleazy is a hypocrite is like asking "Did the sun rise this morning?"
Anonymous
· 2 years ago
When I worked for a social services provider in the 90s, I was regularly asked to support the Governor's budget "or else" - both Edgar and Ryan. I can't imagine why anyone would be shocked by this.
Squideshi
· 2 years ago
After this spectacle, the ability to play well with others may become an important quality for Illinois candidates.
Cassandra
· 2 years ago
Isn't the whole concept of being a non-profit that you raise funds on your own and don't become disproportioantely dependent on government funding.
Sounds like we have some non-profits which have become a little too comfy feeding from the public trough. Time to get up and do a little fund raising, guys and gals. A list of administrative and executive staff salaries of employees of various non-profits around the state and particularly in Chicagoland would be quite an eye-opener to many. And fund raising is part of what they are supposed to be doing for those well-into-six-figure salaries.
As to the CTA, they have over 10,000 employees and they can only find 27 administrators to fire Or maybe 27 jobs with nobody in them to move off the org chart temporarily....the old personnel office game.
Meanwhile, we know Carole is a Dem pol, but wasn't the youthful Ron supposed to be the new broom at the CTA. Where are the creative ideas? Why can't we have Mayor Bloomberg's transportion manager? In New York, they have a serious proposal for congestion fees which would throw off hundreds of milions a year. Nothing like that from our Ron, though. He's turning into a hack Chicago pol as fast as you can say da Mare.
zatoichi
· 2 years ago
As 501c3 organizations, the commnity based social service groups cannot get directly involved with the budget issues without jeapordizing their tax status. These are the same groups who often get 85%-90% of their funding from the state to do the state's business for people with disabilites, at costs far less then the state can do it, with funds that do not meet the actual costs of services. They have to basically beg for 3% dollars every year while state programs get regular increases. They did not get any increases last year and so far this year the budgets being discussed to not have funding increases for them. However that does not stop minimun wage, utilities, health insurance, work comp, gas, and all other costs from going up 10%-50%. Want to talk real functional, structural deficits? What services do these programs stop after July 1 and tell the people they serve: "Sorry, but we cannot pay the bills because the state does not consider us important"? But use these groups as pawns,...yeah, that's the ticket.
not so
· 2 years ago
zatoichi,
You're completely wrong. This isn't a political campaign. non profits get involved in advocating for their policies all the time. Their status is not placed in jeopardy in any way by advocating for budget priorities one way or the other.
BLAH
· 2 years ago
Illinois is a grant making state - meaning the state gives funding to human service organizations to provide public services. Those organizations should get state money - they do the job the state refuses to do and most of the time without any yearly increases.
Just look at how many state employees Rod terminated during his first term. Whose going to help the mentally ill, disabled, etc?
Anonymous
· 2 years ago
Actually, I don't think very many employees were terminated at all during Blago's first term, certainly not frontline employees. Some high level Rutan-exempt and "term" positions turned over but that is to be expected when a new party takes over.
Many have been confused by the early retirements arranged by the Ryan administration which took place through December, 2002 and, in a few cases, through April or May of 2003. That is where most of the departures were. Those folks, mostly lifers, left voluntarily because of pension sweeteners offered to speed their departure. Like at GM, they had to be paid (by us taxpayers) to leave. Otherwise they'd still be there.
Blago claims not to have filled a lot of those positions--which was the whole idea. He was right not to fill them. But there were few real layoffs after Blago took over.
AFSCME likes to foster the notion that their ranks have been decimanted by layoffs. It's a bargaining tool. The more line employees, the more dues for AFSCME.
Believe me, there are still thousands of state employees dozing away in low-work, high-compenation jobs---Blago barely made a dent.
zatoichi
· 2 years ago
Not So, Yeah you are right. Budget stuff is not campaigning. I must have got lost on some train of thought there. Not the last stupid comment I come up with.
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I believe the call ended with the charge "work for the budget you want to see, which we hope is the Gov's"
Sounds like we have some non-profits which have become a little too comfy feeding from the public trough. Time to get up and do a little fund raising, guys and gals. A list of administrative and executive staff salaries of employees of various non-profits around the state and particularly in Chicagoland would be quite an eye-opener to many. And fund raising is part of what they are supposed to be doing for those well-into-six-figure salaries.
As to the CTA, they have over 10,000 employees
and they can only find 27 administrators to fire
Or maybe 27 jobs with nobody in them to move off the org chart temporarily....the old personnel office game.
Meanwhile, we know Carole is a Dem pol, but wasn't the youthful Ron supposed to be the new broom at the CTA. Where are the creative ideas?
Why can't we have Mayor Bloomberg's transportion manager? In New York, they have a serious proposal for congestion fees which would throw off hundreds of milions a year. Nothing like that from our Ron, though. He's turning into a hack Chicago pol as fast as you can say da Mare.
You're completely wrong. This isn't a political campaign. non profits get involved in advocating for their policies all the time. Their status is not placed in jeopardy in any way by advocating for budget priorities one way or the other.
Just look at how many state employees Rod terminated during his first term. Whose going to help the mentally ill, disabled, etc?
Many have been confused by the early retirements arranged by the Ryan administration which took place through December, 2002 and, in a few cases, through April or May of 2003. That is where most of the departures were. Those folks, mostly lifers, left voluntarily because of pension sweeteners offered to speed their departure. Like at GM, they had to be paid (by us taxpayers) to leave. Otherwise they'd still be there.
Blago claims not to have filled a lot of those positions--which was the whole idea. He was right not to fill them. But there were few real layoffs after Blago took over.
AFSCME likes to foster the notion that their ranks have been decimanted by layoffs. It's a bargaining tool. The more line employees, the more dues for AFSCME.
Believe me, there are still thousands of state employees dozing away in low-work, high-compenation jobs---Blago barely made a dent.
Yeah you are right. Budget stuff is not campaigning. I must have got lost on some train of thought there. Not the last stupid comment I come up with.