Marathon Pundit: UPDATED: Gov. Quinn's pay-for-play budget: Borrow $4.7 billion

After six years of budget trickery conducted by Rod Blagojevich, his two-time running mate, Governor Pat Quinn, promises more of the same--his proposed budget kicks the fiscal can down the road by borrowing $4.7 billion, Illinois already owes $6 billion. The budget includes $2 billion in cuts, including some in education and services to the elderly. But unlike Chicago Mayor Richard Daley's austerity push--there are no suggested furlough days for union employees. That could be because Quinn was endorsed by the powerful Service Employees Union. And that's not all--SEIU, which represents many state employees, has been quite generous to Quinn's campaign fund.

That's called pay-for-play.

Illinois needs to be powerscrubbed. Quinn is weak and he is the wrong man for these tough times. Rather than vote for Blago's running mate this fall, there's a better choice: Republican Bill Brady.

Red Lasso has a video clip on the Quinn budget.

UPDATE 1:10pm CST: The other shoe dropped. Quinn is proposing that the state income tax be hiked from three to four percent. No word on furlough days.

Don't hold your breath on the last one.

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