Republican Kirk Dillard.
I’ve heard rumors that the IEA will not endorse Squeezy in the Democratic primary.
I’ve also heard rumors that they will endorse somebody in the Republican primary.
But who could that be?
Working folks and teachers have no candidate in the governor’s race.
Take long-ago Republican moderate Kirk Dillard.
He was all over the map on pensions. One day for SB1. The next day against it.
He ultimately voted no.
But now Dillard announces that he opposes raising the minimum wage.
SPRINGFIELD — State Sen. Kirk Dillard says Gov. Pat Quinn’s call for an increase in the minimum wage is merely an “election-year stunt.”
But Dillard, who is running for governor in 2014, voted in favor of raising the minimum wage in 2006 when it was being pushed by now-imprisoned former Gov. Rod Blagojevich.
Dillard, a Hinsdale Republican, was among eight GOP senators who said “yes” in November 2006 to a plan to bump the minimum wage to $7.50 an hour in 2007. It topped out at $8.25 an hour in 2010.
Two of Dillard’s opponents in the GOP race for governor — state Sen. Bill Brady of Bloomington and state Treasurer Dan Rutherford of Chenoa, who then was a state senator — voted “no” on the 2006 minimum wage hike.
Dillard’s running mate, state Rep. Jil Tracy, R-Quincy, also voted “no” on the 2006 proposal.
Fred Klonsky 
Quinn is pushing for minimum wage hike immediately after cutting teacher pensions. He says no one who works 40 hours a week should live in poverty. I agree, but what about teachers who worked their whole lives and will not be able to keep up with inflation in the years to come?
DON’T SUPPORT ANYOne…they will all stab is in the back