You may have heard. Illinois has a budget problem.. Illinois politicians want to distract voters away from this fact and exploit the hysteria against public employees to do it. Illinois public employees need your help with this vote.
For decades our politicians have avoided dealing with budget issues via a number of sleights of hand. The biggest trick they pulled year after year was diverting funds that were supposed to be applied to pension coverage into general expenses and pork.
And now politicians eager to avoid accountability and eager to avoid the hard decisions as well as conservative businesses who want to weaken unions have joined hands in labeling this crisis as "the pension problem". (There are some pension issues to be sure but they are much smaller in scope than the budget crisis and are often exploited as diversionary tactics these days.)
No. It's the Illinois budget problem.
Your working sisters and brothers need your vote in Illinois so please continue below...