Cook County Board President Todd Stroger, who vehemently opposes legislation to reduce the number of votes needed to override his vetoes, supported the exact same measure before he was board president, Capitol Fax's Rich Miller reports . A document saved by Rep. John Fritchey from a 2006 campaign he and former County Commissioner Mike Quigley waged to get the override threshold lowered broadcasts then-Ald....
Boss of internet service provider Exetel, John Linton, says the National Broadband Network should be handed to the only company that can build it - Telstra - and he's not impressed by NBN Co chief Mike Quigley.
U.S. Rep. Mike Quigley, D-Ill., made his reputation in Chicago politics as the guy who wouldn't go along to get along. As a Cook County Board member, he got in the face of regular Democrats. He spent a decade in that office championing reform, battling the corruption and cronyism that plagues Cook County government. He often embarrassed -- and enraged -- his fellow Democrats.
As readers of this blog know, I’ve been pointing out that the Countrywide scandal is far from a closed case despite attempts by apologists for Democrat Senators Kent Conrad and Chris Dodd to close the book on the matter after the Senate Ethics Committee’s “investigation.” And by “investigation” I mean the letter they issued clearing Conrad and Dodd of any wrong-doing...
It looks like Republican Rep. Darrell Issa has won a couple of key allies in his creative campaign to make Oversight Committee Chairman Ed Towns subpoena potentially damaging records from defunct mortgage lender Countrywide. Those would be Towns’ Democratic allies, 2nd term Rep. Paul Hodes of New Hampshire and Mike Quigley of Illinois, who won Rahm Emanuel’s seat in April. Towns has resisted...
Good for them. Interesting that two new Congressmen are the ones pushing ethics. There is probably a law that the longer they remain in Congress, the less interested politicians are in ethics. An equation for an inverse relationship, like y=a/x. Two Democrats buck Rep. Towns, call for Countrywide VIP mortgage probe Two junior Democrats are urging their leaders to open an investigation into the Countrywide...
NBN Company executive chairman Mike Quigley has both the authority and capacity to acquire assets related to a national broadband network now, even before the Government's implementation study is completed...
If you recall, a few days ago Rep. Darrell Issa of California, the Ranking Republican on the Oversight Committee, said that he would bring to a vote a subpoena request for Countrywide documents. It's old news from months ago that the Chairman, Edolphus Towns (D-NY) has said that he would not support it even though his name has been linked to sweetheart deals. So today comes. The hearing is set. Issa...
The Cook County Board of Commissioners has tried, and failed, several times to roll back the 10.25 percent county-wide sales tax. Yesterday, the Illinois General Assembly took a swing at it, as well. The legislation, which would have cut the sales tax from 1.75 percent to .75 percent, fell six votes short of passage. "This is going to really devastate all aspects of our government," Todd...
Two must listen interviews this week. U.S. Rep. Mike Quigley talks about handguns, hockey and Chicago politics. Chicago's Bra Guy, Oz du Soleil, enlightens us...
The NBN Company says it won’t have a headquarters operation in the traditional sense, but that hasn’t stopped executive chairman Mike Quigley renting a place to hang his...
You might know him as "U.S. Rep. Mike Quigley," Democratic Congressional representative from the state of Illinois' fifth District. But to us, he is "Mr. Quiggles," a kind, uncontroversial man who says things such as, "Oh Mrs. Perry, these crumpets are delightful — and your cranberry jam is extraordinary!" Mr. Quiggles spends his days riding "the trolley"...
Not a day goes by that we don’t have some sort of press release cross our desk, or get an email promising “secret information that will "distroy" [ Sic ] Mayor Daley’s House of Cards,”, but it isn’t often that a U.S. Congressman gets on national television to read his love for the Second City into the Congressional record. That said, Mike Quigley’s...
Republican Mark Kirk raised more money for his 2010 Senate run than Democrat Alexi Giannoulias, $1.6 million to $1.1 million. This is Illinois, not Texas...it's a big deal. In a press release, the Giannoulias campaign is spinning the news, claiming the Chicagoan "is the first U.S. Senate candidate in Illinois history to refuse contributions from corporate PACs and federal lobbyists." It goes...
On a smaller scale, Governor Quinn's capital improvement plan is the equivalent of the Stimulus Package; a waste of taxpayer dollars to be thrown at improving roads, bridges, etc. And the jobs that it would produce would only be temporary; they would go away when these projects are completed. Quinn's plan involved the assumption that a hefty revenue stream would be pouring in from videogaming to pay...
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