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Next Ind. treasurer looks back on roots She’s a Woodstock High School graduate By STEPHEN Di BENEDETTO sdibenedetto@shawmedia.com
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Republican gubernatorial candidate Bruce Rauner talks with supporters after speaking to the crowd of more than 100 people Oct. 22 at the Women for Rauner gathering at the Boulder Ridge County Club.
Lawmakers, experts analyze administration’s future a General Assembly dominated by the other party. But Springfield watchers and When CEOs want things done, McHenry County’s state repretheir employees leap into action sentatives said they are confiand get them done. dent that Governor-elect Bruce It’s not a management philos- Rauner will work well with Demophy that works when a Republi- ocratic House Speaker Michael can CEO is elected governor with Madigan and Senate President
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John Cullerton to address the significant hurdles facing Illinois. The bottom line is that both sides are going to have to make deals to move initiatives through, said David Yepsen, director of the Paul Simon Public Policy Institute at Southern Illinois University at Carbondale.
“Cullerton, Madigan and Rauner are all grown-ups, and they all got where they were in life by making deals, and so I fully expect, now that the bluster of the campaign is out of the way, that they’ll sit down and find
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“My suggestion to his top staff was to be collaborative. If they’re collaborative and they try to seek common ground, a lot will get done. If he tries to dictate things, there will be gridlock and things will turn very ‘Blagojevichian.’ ”
WOODSTOCK – On the campaign trail in Indiana this past year, Kelly Mitchell frequently recounted the life lessons she learned from her mom during her childhood in Woodstock. Mitchell’s relationship with her mom, Christine Miller, runs deep enough that the two have blocked away time for a phone call every Sunday after Mitchell departed Woodstock for Indiana decades ago to attend Valparaiso University. Beginning in 2015, Mitchell’s weekly phone call with her mom, who now lives in Crystal Lake, may sometimes happen from the Indiana Treasurer’s Office. Mitchell, a 1985 graduate of Woodstock High School, was elected Tuesday to the statewide office for the first time – a feat, she said, she could not have accomplished without her family in McHenry County. “[My mom] absolutely believed in me and supported me,” Mitchell told the Northwest Herald. “It’s been 14 long, amazing months, and my family has been there every step of the way.” After the Indiana treasurer’s race was called Tuesday, Mitchell delivered her acceptance speech with her mom, sister and other family members at her side. Mitchell, a
“[My mom] absolutely believed in me and supported me. It’s been 14 long, amazing months, and my family has been there every step of the way.”
Kelly Mitchell Incoming treasurer of the state of Indiana
State Rep. Jack Franks, D-Marengo See TREASURER, page A10
Many U.S. bishops struggling under Francis’ pontificate less than a month after Francis ended a dramatic Vatican meeting on how the church U.S. Roman Catholic bish- can more compassionately ops are gathering at a mo- minister to Catholic families. ment of turbulence for them The gathering in Rome was and the American church, as a prelude to a larger meetPope Francis moves toward ing next year that will more crafting new policies for car- concretely advise Francis rying out his mission of mercy on church practice. Still, the – a prospect that has conserva- back and forth among bishtive Catholics and some bish- ops over welcoming gays and ops in an uproar. divorced Catholics who remarThe assembly, which starts ry has prompted stunning critMonday in Baltimore, comes icism from some U.S. bishops.
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saying – especially politically – would eventually be supported in Rome. They can’t count on that now.” Cardinal Raymond Burke, the former St. Louis archbishJohn Thavis op and leading voice for conformer Rome bureau chief for Catholic News Service servative Catholics, said the church “is like a ship with“Many of the U.S. bish- Rome bureau chief for Catho- out a rudder” under Francis. ops have been disoriented by lic News Service. “To a large Burke made the comments what this new pope is saying degree, the U.S. bishops have before the pope demoted him and I don’t see them really as lost their bearings. I think up from his position as head of embracing the pope’s agenda,” until now, they felt Rome had the Vatican high court, a move said John Thavis, a former their back, and what they were he had anticipated.
“Many of the U.S. bishops have been disoriented by what this new pope is saying and I don’t see them really as embracing the pope’s agenda.”
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Bishop Thomas Tobin of Providence, Rhode Island, said the debate and vote on a document summing up the discussion in Rome, which laid bare divisions among church leaders, struck him as “rather Protestant.” Tobin referenced a remark Francis made to young Catholics last year that they shake up the church and make a “mess” in their dioceses.
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