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| Contributor | Imperator |
| Last Edited | Imperator Jan 23, 2010 07:16am |
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| Category | Endorsement |
| Media | Newspaper - Chicago Tribune |
| News Date | Saturday, January 23, 2010 01:00:00 PM UTC0:0 |
| Description | We had high hopes for Pat Quinn. Though he owed his rise to Rod Blagojevich's fall, it was heartening to see a committed gadfly sworn in a year ago as the state's 41st governor. He'd spent a lifetime casting stones at the power brokers in Springfield, and he owed them exactly nothing for his elevation to the big job. Quinn, we said at the time, "could prove to be the man for the moment."
That moment is slipping away. Quinn promised sweeping government reforms and appointed a blue-ribbon panel to draft them, then stood back and watched as they were gutted or discarded by lawmakers who like things the way they are. The people Quinn appointed to his ethics panel were astonished by his failure to support their work. His campaign to clean up Illinois barely got off the ground.
The state's other crisis -- a fiscal disaster fueled by runaway borrowing and spending -- has gotten even worse on his watch, thanks largely to Quinn's make-everybody-happy approach to governing. There's little reason to think he can turn it around.
His administration's disastrous early-release programs for prison inmates raise even more concerns about Quinn's capacity to run the state.
We wish the Democratic Party had a better alternative in this primary. But Dan Hynes hasn't shown that he is it.
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