Thursday, September 25, 2008

Comptroller going ahead wth cuts, doesn't trust governor

RRStar.com:
As Illinoisans wait to see what Gov. Rod Blagojevich does next with the state budget, one state officeholder says he couldn’t take the chance of leaving his budget in the hands of a governor he doesn’t trust.

State lawmakers voted overwhelmingly this week to restore more than $220 million in budget cuts made by Blagojevich. That’s designed to keep state parks and historic sites from closing this fall and prevent or reverse hundreds of layoffs in state government.

But Comptroller Dan Hynes’ office isn’t included in that bill — by his choice. A nearly $3 million reduction for his office, including 15 layoffs that occurred earlier this month, will stand.

Hynes said in an interview with The State Journal-Register on Wednesday that he turned down lawmakers’ offer to be included in the restoration measure because he couldn’t put his employees through more of the unknown and the potential “whiplash” of what Blagojevich could do next.

“I couldn’t run my office under a cloud of uncertainty and make decisions because of the whims of the governor,” Hynes said. “I just don’t trust this governor, and I felt that I had to make my decisions.”
Now that there is news about a possible indictment for the Governor, we have an article talking about one of the main issues many folks in state government has with him. The trust factor. No one trusts him to follow thru or indeed to be trusted not to tinker with budgets just because. This is unfortunate really.

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