Dear Illinois, stop dragging your feet. I truly wish the Judge would treat this matter like folks do when it comes not paying their bills. Hrm. Thats an idea. Think the judge can get a repoman to repo the govener's stuff until the bill's paid?

Still, if Illinois had just been smart, they wouldn't be stuck with a bill now that's been racking up interest. I wonder if this will effect Illinois' credit rating. ;)

Here is a thought if they're sort on cash, they can take money from their own pay checks to pay for the legal fees. I know this will never happen though.

If ever there was a burning reason for Illinois voters to never re-elect that governor, there you go. Over a half million dollars wasted on a campaign that was ultimately and knowingly doomed to failure even before the ink hit the paper.

There's no such thing as "unspent corners" in a tax budget if the organization is a non-profit one. Especially when dealing with public tax money, they have to account for every last cent and provide adequate explaination to the public how and what they are using that money for.

That was money that was to be used for education, health care, roadways, public utility services, and a slew of other necessities that governments are MEANT to collect taxes to cover. Instead, they just coughed up over $500,000 over the jackass governor's ego trip. He should be fired and charged with malfeasance by his constituents, and be forced to repay the amount that he just wasted.

It's too bad this didn't happen before election time-Blaggie squirming in public would have been very interesting to watch.

I'm not sure but by "unspent corners of the budget" I think they mean the money that they were planning on spending but have not spent yet this year. So could come from anything.

Don't they mean, "Unspent coners of the buget... that COULD have been spent on something important and useful instead of being WASTED on obviously futile and overall rather useless legislation"?

no, i guess not... that's a bit too truthful for a statement...