Democrats Re-Elect Madigan House Speaker
If voters pay attention to nothing else in this legislative session, they should pay attention to this vote. It tells them all they need to know.
Read Full ArticleConroy / Bush Receive Failing Grade from Small Business Association
Illinois has trailed most of the nation in the creation of jobs and opportunities. Since the year 2000, the 50 states combined have created almost 12 million net new jobs. Illinois has created no net new jobs. We have the highest unemployment rate in the nation. If we don’t correct that problem, nothing else matters. On November 8, your state legislator’s record on issues impacting business and job creation should play a major role in your decision making.
Read Full ArticleWar on Students: Arne Duncan and the Left’s Education Failure
Given the compelling real-world evidence, our objective should not be to expand government, as Duncan did at CPS and in the Obama administration. Such efforts have only increased costs and demonstrated almost no empirical results – despite all of the government-funded theories that hypothetically attach improved results to spending increases. Instead, our objective should be to expand access for families and increase performance incentives for schools. Look at what works in the real world.
Read Full ArticleThe War on Taxpayers: Electoral Maps
Madigan’s successful opposition to the Independent Map Amendment helps to solidify his concentration of power through the centralization of government. In drawing the electoral map, he created uncompetitive districts, yielding him super-majorities in the House and Senate. No wonder he doesn’t want the people to take that power away from him.
Read Full ArticleWar on Taxpayers: Illinois’ Rigged Elections
In 2014, Illinois Democrats, led by Mike Madigan and an outgoing Governor Pat Quinn, enacted (on a straight party-line vote) a system for Election Day voter registration exclusively designed to increase the number of Democrat voters… The measure is brazenly political.
Read Full ArticleWar on Taxpayers: AFSCME Threatens to Strike
Last week, Democrats gathered in Philadelphia for their national convention. Among other things, they extolled the virtues of organized labor and government workers. This week, voters in Illinois are facing a reality check regarding such virtues.
Read Full ArticlePolitics Tonight Kicks-Off the RNC with IOP’s Pat Hughes
As the Republican National Convention kicked-off, IOP Co-Founder Pat Hughes joined Paul Lisnek on CLTV’s Politics Tonight to discuss one of the most contentious candidates and conventions in recent history.
Read Full ArticleWhy Trump Needs a Conservative Running Mate
Kathleen Murphy of the Illinois Opportunity Project appeared on FOX Chicago Wednesday morning to discuss Trump’s V.P. pick and Bernie Sanders’ endorsement of Hillary Clinton.
Read Full ArticleHow to (really) achieve the ‘important conversation’
If we are ever to get to a conversation of any consequence, we must dispense with the left-right and black-white binaries and talk of those who use persuasion versus those who employ coercion regardless of the issue to be advanced or the grievance to be remedied.
Read Full ArticleAn Honest Moment in Springfield
With $8 billion in unpaid bills to the state’s social services providers and businesses, State Senator Kimberly Lightford (D-Chicago) stood on the floor of the Illinois Senate and declared, “We’re not vendors… we deserve to get paid.” We’re not them. We’re legislators. Politicians are rarely so honest about their core beliefs.
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