Illinois GOP admits it was behind messages LIARS!!!!!!!

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Illinois GOP admits it was behind messages
By Kevin McDermott
POST-DISPATCH SPRINGFIELD BUREAU
04/06/2006

SPRINGFIELD, ILL.

After initial denials this week, Illinois House Republicans acknowledged on Thursday that they are behind a stealth "robocall" phone campaign designed to derail a Democratic state budget that they allege is a fiscal time bomb.

"We are paying for it," House Republican spokesman David Dring said Thursday afternoon, referring to automated phone messages aimed at more than a dozen Democratic legislative districts around the state, including the Metro East area.

About 24 hours earlier, Dring and other Republican officials had denied to the Post-Dispatch that the GOP had anything to do with reports of anonymous prerecorded phone messages slamming Democratic lawmakers in their own districts over budgetary issues.
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Dring said Thursday he hadn't been aware of the program when he issued the denial on Wednesday. He defended it as "a public policy" strategy by a party that has been locked out of state budget negotiations by the Democratic majority in Springfield. He estimated the cost of the program at "less than $10,000," paid for by party funds.
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http://www.stltoday.com/stltoday/news/stories.nsf/illinoisstatenews/story/645D48CB0EAC100D86257149001700B0?OpenDocument

[kaleagal]

1. Dan Rutherford has been pushing that.

I got on his list when I wrote to him about something that he was on a committee for. So, he sent information from the Committee for Legislative Action and there is a page with all the money they're coming up with from the surpluses in a list of programs. http://www.committeeforlegislativeaction.org/hb2316.asp
I'm still not too sure what to make of it. This is how we balance our own budget at home, pay for whatever with whatever money we have. So, I think we need to just restructure the way we take in revenue and make it understood that it's all going in one big pool of money and adjust where it will be spent according to the increase or decrease of need in each program every year.