Quinn's Mandate?

At first, we thought he and Huberman were going to make some announcement. Then we realized he actually believes he has carte blanche to really stick it to voters:

• Gov. Pat Quinn may have won the governor's race by the narrowest margin in nearly three decades, but he's not letting that stop him from claiming he now has a "mandate" from voters to raise the state income tax for schools.
  
  "I think our message of investing in education was supported by the people," Quinn told the Tribune. "I think that is a really strong mandate that I got. I know from the campaign, people made that pretty clear to me, and I think the election returns said the same thing."

Really? You win by the smallest margin in history, under 25,000 votes, and suddenly, you can raise taxes? Has this softball even noticed Illinois' unemployment rate - it's higher than the national average. Businesses continue to flee our state and population can't be far behind. The budget deficit is something like $15 billion dollars and spending is out of control.

Talk about getting exactly the wrong message from voters. Combine this with the property tax bills going out shortly that were purposely held back by the democrats and you can truly marvel at the ignorant voters who put this twit in charge for another 4 years.

Maybe that "governor recall mechanism" just passed on the ballot will be getting a workout shortly. We can only hope.