By Bill Cameron, WLS-AM 890 News
(CHICAGO) In the state budget impasse, Governor Bruce Rauner and legislative leaders met for an hour and a half Tuesday afternoon and will meet again Thursday morning, but voters may have to impose a settlement.
It’s looking more and more like it ‘ll take the 2018 election to end the impasse. Listen to the key player, Speaker Mike Madigan, after I asked if that’s what it will take.
“Uh, that should not happen. That should not happen. As far as I’m concerned, this should have been settled a long time ago and it could have been settled a long time ago if everybody was reasonable about these issues. I’m not the one that decided to hold hostage the Illinois governmental budget,” said House Speaker Mike Madigan.
In the shorter term, Madigan said schools and capital construction spending will go on even if the current stop-gap budget is not extended when it expires at the end of this month.
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