Available on Lexis.com: Chicago Defender July 1, 2000,

While Gov. George H. Ryan signed legislation suspending Illinois’ five percent sales tax on gasoline for six months and issued an executive order creating state monitoring teams, Mayor Richard M. Daley Thursday vowed to keep an eagle eye on gas prices in Chicago.

Some people opposed it. Among their arguments:

Dr. Quentin Young, chairman of the Health and Medicine Policy Research Group, who said those funds are earmarked for health, education, and human services.

He called the passage of the state’s six-month gas tax reduction nothing more than a “pre-November election states-manship” saying this will only force the legislature to compensate in other ways while “compromising the health of Illinois residents with future raids of the tobacco settlement funds and other state-funded programs.”

Where was Obama on the issue?

Senators Kimberly A. Lightford (D-4th) and Barack Obama (D-13th) said the bill gives customers needed temporary relief from high gas prices. “Gas retailers must post on each pump a statement that indicates that the state tax has been suspended and that this temporary elimination of the tax should be reflected in the price per gallon of gas,” said Obama

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Who cause more damage to the Democratic Party?

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Indeed, on this background/values question, Obama’s score fell among small-town/rural voters (from 46-43 percent to 31-61 percent), suburban voters (56-32 percent to 49-40 percent) and those 65 and older (52-37 percent to 36-47 percent).

Still, Obama leads Clinton among Democrats by three points in the poll, 46-43 percent, although that’s within the margin of error on this question. In the last NBC News/Wall Street Journal poll, the two were both tied at 45 percent each.

But it’s clear that the ongoing Democratic battle has had an effect on the candidates. Nearly four-in-10 Obama voters said that they didn’t identify with Clinton’s background and values, while almost five-in-10 Clinton voters say the same about Obama.

not sure if anyone here already post these new SD that will be coming out for our girl???

just got this over at DK

“Well, that was the positive landscape until today, when I heard it from a Hartford reporter that AFL-CIO President, Liebercrat, and former CT State Chair John Olsen is set to endorse Hillary Clinton. Good Grief!

This has since been confirmed by an insider and friend of mine who in fact spoke directly with Olsen several days ago.”