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ELECTION 2014: ILLINOIS GOVERNOR’S RACE
Survey: Residents split on keeping backyard hens By JOSEPH BUSTOS jbustos@shawmedia.com
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Gubernatorial candidates Bruce Rauner (left) and Pat Quinn (right) offer different views for the future of Illinois. Quinn insists the state is making a comeback under his leadership, but Rauner argues the current administration’s tax policy is driving businesses away.
WHERE THEY STAND Candidates’ core issues examined in November gubernatorial contest By KEVIN P. CRAVER kcraver@shawmedia.com Voters on Nov. 4 will decide the ongoing bare-knuckle fight for governor between incumbent Democrat Pat Quinn and Republican challenger Bruce Rauner. Both candidates have pulled no punches in the race, which they both paint as a referendum on Illinois’ future, albeit for different reasons. Quinn, who insists Illinois is “making a comeback” under his leadership, paints Rauner, a wealthy venture capitalist, as an out-of-touch one-percenter whose policies would hurt the poor and working class. Rauner, who has never run for elected office, says years of Democratic rule, especially under Quinn, have locked Illinois into a “death spiral” that taxpayers and businesses are fleeing.
Complete election coverage Follow the local, state and national races at NWHerald. com/election. While Quinn has repeatedly hammered Rauner over his wealth, Rauner has struck back at Quinn’s reputation as the Illinois rarity of a clean politician, linking him to ongoing investigations over patronage hiring at the Illinois Department of Transportation and money given out as Chicago anti-violence grants during his 2010 campaign. Libertarian candidate Chad Grimm is also on the ballot, despite a failed Republican effort to remove him – Democrats succeeded in booting the Green Party candidate. The following is a list of where
Quinn and Rauner stand on the major issues of the state income tax, pension reform and the minimum wage.
TAXES One of the core issues of the race is the fate of the 2011 income tax increase that is scheduled to expire Jan. 1. Democratic lawmakers in the last hours of the lame-duck session after Quinn’s narrow 2010 election passed the largest tax increase in state history. It raised taxes 67 percent on individuals – or about an extra week’s salary – and 46 percent on businesses, to 5 and 7 percent, respectively. The business tax rate is 9.5 percent when the corporate personal property replacement tax is included. Supporters sold the increase as necessary to straighten the state’s dire finances and pay down billions
in unpaid bills, but almost all of it has been eaten by the state’s ballooning public pension obligations. Quinn asked state lawmakers in his 2015 budget address earlier this year to break the promise made to taxpayers and make the income tax increase permanent. He favors replacing the flat tax with a progressive one based on income, but such a move would require voters to amend the Illinois Constitution. Rauner’s budget plan phases out the income-tax increases over a four-year period, back to the pre2011 levels of 3 percent for individuals and 4.8 percent for businesses. Among his plans to raise more revenue is to impose a state sales tax on more than 30 services, such as attorney and computer programming services.
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CARY – Village officials in Cary will continue on with the backyard chicken discussion and plan to have a public open By the numbers house. The open house workshop Survey of residents would include a by Cary officials panel discussion found: with local experts to discuss the pros and cons of residential chickens, said said no chickens Village Admin- should be allowed istrator Chris Clark. The panel discussion would be similar to one said they want to the village had allow chickens regarding dog issues in town after there were several serious dog attacks. The village said they had has reached out no opinion to veterinarians and county offi- Voice your cials, among oth- opinion er people, Clark said. Would you like “I would ex- your community pect a full house,” to allow backyard Clark said. chickens? Vote T h e v e n u e online at NWHerald. and time for a com. workshop has yet to be set. The workshop or open house would allow residents to comment on the concept before a Board of Zoning, Planning and Appeals meeting where a text amendment to village code would be considered, according to village documents.
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Pope chooses moderate Blase Cupich as next Chicago archbishop Move sends signal for direction of the church By RACHEL ZOLL The Associated Press As the leader of two American dioceses, Roman Catholic Bishop Blase Cupich has staked out a firm position in the middle of the road.
He has spoken out against samesex marriage and against conservative hostility toward gay rights advocates. He has opposed abortion, while urging parishioners and priests to have patience, not disdain, for those who disagree. And he has criticized fellow U.S. bishops who threatened to shut down religious charities instead of pursuing a compromise with the White House over health care policies that go against Catholic teach-
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Blase Cupich, newly appointed archbishop of Chicago, will replace Cardinal Francis George
ing. On Saturday, Pope Francis named Cupich as the next archbishop of Chicago, sending a strong signal about
the direction the pontiff is taking the church. Cupich will succeed Cardinal Francis George, 77, an aggressive defender of orthodoxy who once said he expected his successors in Chicago to be martyred in the face of hostility toward Christianity. “I think what Francis is trying to do with his appointments in both the United States and around the world is to moderate the conversation and get us past the culture wars and the ideo-
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logues,” said Christopher Bellitto, a church historian at Kean University in New Jersey. “Francis is not trying to balance a lurch to the right with a lurch to the left. He’s trying to build up the big middle so we can have conversations and not arguments.” The Chicago appointment is Francis’ first major mark on American Catholic leadership.
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