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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Friday, April 10, 2009
Contact: Jesse DeSplinter
(630) 899-9191 / jesse@adamforillinois.com
PRESS RELEASE
Itinerary
Date & Time: Saturday March 21st, 2009 at 10:30 AM
Location: Kanakakee Court House, 189 E. Court St. Kankakee, IL
Date & Time: Saturday March 21st, 2009 at 6:00 PM
Location: Hotel Pere Marquette - 501 Main Street, Peoria, IL
Adam Andrzejewski Responds to Quinn Proposal on the Illinois Budget
Adam Andrzejewski, Founder and former Director of "For the Good of Illinois, and Republican candidate for Governnor will be in Kankakee Saturday to discuss the recent Budget announcement by Governor Pat Quinn. Andrzejewski will cover various aspects of Quinn's proposal, including, but not limited to, the following items.
* Quinn deserves some credit for attempting to address a problem not of his creation.
* Quinn's call for "alternatives" offered on the part of critics isn't possible until everyone can see "every dime, on-line, in real time."
* There should be no tax increases until all aspects Illinois government spending are open for review by every Illinois citizen.
* If the taxpayers can see every aspect of spending, they will tell the government where we can cut spending.
* Moments after the Governor's announcement, Daley asked for his cut of the spending while public employee unions openly "declared war" on any state legislator that voted for it.
* Caving in to such spending interests means there will be another devastating tax increase just around the corner.
Plenty of Room for More Cuts
"In all likelihood, there is plenty of room to cut spending." said Andrzejewski. "Every program and agency should be evaluated not just for need, but whether they are using best-practices and cost-effective approaches to solving problems." Andrzejewski also noted that back in the Fall of 2007, "The Auditor General, when tasked to find all the programs funded by the State of Illinois, could not find information on hundreds of programs. Yet these same programs are supposedly "essential" even though we don't know what they are doing." Adam Andrzejewski believes that given the condition of the economy and the burdens placed on Illinois citizens by powerful spending interests, Governor Quinn owes the taxpayers the utmost effort at steep spending cuts before asking for higher taxes.
Start with More Budget Transparency
"We can't fix what is wrong with the budget until we can see all of the budget," states Andrezjewski. "That is the reason that one of the themes of our campaign