Pubdate: Mon, 11 Jan 2010
Source: SouthtownStar (Tinley Park, IL)
Copyright: 2010 Digital Chicago, Inc.
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Details: http://www.mapinc.org/media/4719
Author: James E. Gierach

HYNES' VIEWS PUSHES VOTER TO QUINN'S SIDE

Comptroller Dan Hynes opposes medical marijuana for the sick and
dying. Hynes opposes the sale of the Thomson prison to the federal
government to remove another unaffordable prison albatross from the
backs of Illinois taxpayers while stoking a misplaced fear that
"Gitmoees" represent some special risk if caged at a maximum security
prison in a little Podunk, Ill., river town, a "difficult issue" for
Hynes. And Hynes opposes a reduction in Illinois' burgeoning
45,000-inmate population through an early release of nonviolent
offenders program, despite a remarkable increase in Illinois' prison
population during the drug-war era, ignoring a state fiscal reality
that gobbles tax receipts faster than taxpayers can lay golden eggs.
School funding, not prison funding, is the priority, Comptroller Hynes.

Hynes' financial immaturity and fear-mongering just about has me sold
on Gov. Pat Quinn.

James E. Gierach

Palos Park
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