ICYMI: Democrat Lieutenant Governor Candidate Attacks Democrat Treasurer Candidate on Home Turf

Tom Cross  (Letters to Editors)

The interparty warfare starts as desperate Democrat candidates start blame game to save own candidacies

Democrat Lieutenant Governor candidate, Paul Vallas, blasted the unbalanced state budget supported by Democrat Treasurer candidate and Champaign state Senator Mike Frerichs at the Champaign County Democrat “Unity” dinner this weekend.

“We’ve had decades of bad practices: borrowing, deferring, not funding your pensions, not paying your bills, not being willing to make the tough decisions on the revenue side,” Vallas told about 160 Democrats at a dinner at the Laborer’s Union Hall in Urbana as reported by the Champaign News-Gazette.

“It bothers me that we’re borrowing again and we seem to be relapsing into the same kinds of practices that got us into this position in the first place,” said Vallas.  “It’s unfortunate that we’re going to have to defer some obligations so that we’re not paying down the bills like we had planned.”

The unbalanced budget supported by Frerichs and opposed by Vallas spends $35.7 billion using gimmicks like borrowing, delaying payments and one-time revenue sources.  Because of the unbalanced budget and financial gimmicks, media outlets have reported that the state’s unpaid bill backlog is expected to increase by nearly $2 billion by the end of the fiscal year and Illinois could have a budget deficit of over $4 billion to start FY16.

Read the entire Champaign News-Gazette story by clicking this link.