Illinois Truth Team

Illinois Treasurer Mike Frerichs is back with his sash. He loves them more than maybe his earmuffs?

Like European royalty, Mike Frerichs needs to feel important.

Treasurer Mike Frerichs Loves Him Some Sashes Illinois political blog focused on changing the culture of our state by supporting good candidates for office.

Step 1: Give half a million dollars of special interest money to candidate.

Step 2: Quietly install said candidate on school board.

Step 3: Raid the $130M of budget in Park Ridge and Des Plaines.

Let's stop this mess from happening.

North Cook News: Aurora Austriaco Is Trojan Horse for Boss Madigan and Others Illinois political blog focused on changing the culture of our state by supporting good candidates for office.

Eyes wide open for Park Ridge and Des Plaines voters. Want the Chicago Democrat Machine - featuring Mike Madigan and Joe Berrios - to take over our schools? If you stay home and don't vote, that might just happen.

Madigan, Chicago Dems eye Maine Township school board Maine Township District 207 School Board candidate Aurora Austriaco has friends in high places.

Who: Boss Mike Madigan and Aurora Austriaco
What: Quietly inserting his stooge on the Maine 207 School Board
Why: Money of course.
What now: Don't let it happen.

Breaking News: Aurora Austriaco As Mike Madigan Pawn? Career Politician Aurora Austriaco is running for Maine District 207 School Board. Voters should say 'no' to her in 2017.

What is wrong with this story? Oh, that's right. It is just flat out wrong. Back when Aurora Austriaco was running for State Representative as a Democrat (backed by Speaker Mike Madigan), she must have thought she was going to win. She was so confident that she fed a fake news story to a sympathetic outlet that proclaimed that she won big in the race. The problem? She lost. Bigly.

Aurora Austriaco Claimed Victory? Illinois political blog focused on changing the culture of our state by supporting good candidates for office.

A video emerges that documents Maine Township 207 School Board candidate Aurora Austriaco and her connections to disgraced Governor Rod Blagojevich. Voters in Park Ridge and Des Plaines can do better.



Anybody But Aurora Austriaco has even more.

Aurora Austriaco - BFF with Rod Blagojevich Illinois political blog focused on changing the culture of our state by supporting good candidates for office.

The Daily Herald weighed in on Aurora Austriaco and her past involvement with convicted Illinois Governor Rod Blagojevich regarding campaign contributions and state contracts.

Park Ridge and Des Plainest can do so much better. We agree: .

Daily Herald Covers Aurora Austriaco and Her Pay-to-Play Ways Career Politician Aurora Austriaco is running for Maine District 207 School Board. Voters should say 'no' to her in 2017.

Via Charles Marohn:

"So what do we do now? Well, we're about to create a huge pot of money at the federal level that we can spread around to try and solve this problem. Only, it's not a problem. It's a predicament; it has no solution, only outcomes.

It's a predicament that nearly every American city, with very few exceptions, finds itself in. Even if there was enough wealth and productivity to fix all of this -- and there isn't anything close to that amount -- we would be fools to spend it so unproductively.

All this infrastructure is a bad investment. America needs a different model of growth and development."

Marohn: The Real Reason Your City Has No Money Illinois political blog focused on changing the culture of our state by supporting good candidates for office.

A listicle from Bradley Tusk and NYC Deserves Better on what we all can do to engage our democracy.

Tusk: What You Can Do Beyond Marching Illinois political blog focused on changing the culture of our state by supporting good candidates for office.

Analysis: Property taxes rapidly eroding DuPage home values In Jan. 2007, the average Willowbrook home was worth $305,000. Eight years later, in Jan. 2015, it was valued at just $182,000.

Strong analysis from DuPage Policy Journal on eroding property values and the pressure it is creating to increase property taxes unless these local governments do something about it.

Taxpayers need to pay attention to this story and this trend line and are going to need advocates from places like DuPage County Republicans to re-shape local government and school boards to stop the empire building and be honest about pensions.

Property Values in DuPage and Across The Suburbs Dropping, Forcing Pressure On Higher Property Taxes Illinois political blog focused on changing the culture of our state by supporting good candidates for office.

Governor Pat Quinn has decided to not attend today's inauguration services. What a classy move to go out on.

http://www.iltruthteam.com/2015/01/governor-pat-quinn-to-process-screw-you.html