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Tuesday, March 19, 2013

Dan Biss is in deep doo-doo with fellow Dems. | Fred Klonsky

Dan Biss is in deep doo-doo with fellow Dems. | Fred Klonsky:


Dan Biss is in deep doo-doo with fellow Dems.

The some good pension news coming from Springfield today.
The first is that State Senate President John Cullerton’s Senate Bill 1 is in big trouble.
SB1 is the mash-up bill that includes the blatantly unconstitutional Biss/Cross/Nekritz pension bomb with Cullerton’s own forced-choice of health care or COLA.
The other good news is that Senator Dan “I don’t know much about the Constitution” Biss is in deep shit with his Democratic pals.
This is coming from Springfield sources including Rich Miller.
One reason that Cullerton’s bill is in trouble is what I reported the other day. The Civic Committee folks and other corporate groups don’t think it goes far enough. And that’s enough to get Cullerton zilch support among Republicans. The GOP is much happier with the Biss bill and don’t like it that Cullerton has attached it to SB1.