Stroger Veto

Stroger Vetoes Limits On Pay Raises

Chicago Sun-Times | Posted 05.25.2011

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Cook County Board President Todd Stroger wielded his veto stamp this week on a measure he believes is another effort to erode his power. The measure ...

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Cook County Veto Override: Quinn Signs Bill Weakening Stroger

Chicago Tribune | Posted 05.25.2011

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Gov. Pat Quinn today signed into law a measure making it easier for Cook County commissioners to override County Board President Todd Stroger, who has...

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Stroger Vetoes Cook County Sales Tax Cut For 4th Time

Chicago Tribune | Posted 05.25.2011

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Less than a week after the Cook County Board voted yet again to roll back a portion of the county sales tax, Board President Todd Stroger today delive...

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Less Money For Healthcare: Stroger Warns, 'Some People Will Die Needlessly'

Chicago Sun-Times | LISA DONOVAN | Posted 05.25.2011

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It has been said there are only two things certain in this life: taxes and death....

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Stroger Was For Override Reform Before He Was Against It

Huffington Post | Posted 05.25.2011

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Cook County Board President Todd Stroger, who vehemently opposes legislation to reduce the number of votes needed to override his vetoes, supported th...

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Stroger Plans 11th Hour Veto Of Sales Tax Cut

Chicago Sun-Times | LISA DONOVAN | Posted 05.25.2011

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A defiant Cook County Board President Todd Stroger says he'll wait until the 11th hour to veto a sales tax rollback commissioners approved this week....

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Commissioners Override Stroger Veto, Roll Back Sales Tax

NBC Chicago | ANDREW GREINER | Posted 05.25.2011

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Cook County Commissioners voted 12 to 5 to override Board President Todd Stroger's controversial veto of a half-penny sales tax rollback. ...

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Stroger Vetoes Cook County Sales Tax Cut

Fox Chicago | Posted 05.25.2011

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Cook County Board President Todd Stroger late Thursday night vetoed the County Board's decision earlier this week to cut the county's portion of the s...

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Stroger Vetoes Sales Tax Repeal, Again

Chicago Tribune | Hal Dardick | Posted 05.25.2011

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As he previously promised, Cook County Board President Todd Stroger today vetoed the latest attempt by commissioners to rollback last year's sales tax...

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Quigley: Make It Easier To Override County President's Veto

Progress Illinois | Adam Doster | Posted 05.25.2011

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In an interview this morning on WLS' Don Wade & Roma Morning Show, the former commissioner criticized the county code requirement that a four-fifths m...

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Cook County Sales Tax Hike Stays As Override Of Stroger's Veto Fails, New Repeal Passed

AP | DEANNA BELLANDI | Posted 05.25.2011

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CHICAGO (AP) -- Cook County's unpopular 1 percentage point sales tax increase is sticking around, at least for now. County commissioners did not must...

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Stroger's Tax Repeal Veto Unlikely To Be Overridden

Chicago Tribune | Hal Dardick | Posted 05.25.2011

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Cook County commissioners trying to roll back the sales tax increase championed by board President Todd Stroger say they are unlikely to override his ...

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Bill Making It Easier To Override Cook County President's Vetoes Languishes

Chicago Tribune | Eric Zorn | Posted 05.25.2011

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Who shoved Illinois Senate Bill 1868 into the grave? It proposes a very simple, very sensible and very timely reform to the state law governing counti...

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Stroger Veto Override: Lawmakers Look To Make It Easier

Daily Herald | Posted 05.25.2011

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Two suburban Democratic state lawmakers wants to make it easier for county commissioners to override future vetoes by the county board president....

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Stroger Slams Critics, Defends Tax Repeal Veto

Chicago Tribune | Posted 05.25.2011

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Cook County Board President Todd Stroger today vigorously defended his veto of a sales-tax rollback and attacked his County Board critics, who he said...

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Stroger Hedging On Sales Tax Veto Threat

Chicago Sun-Times | Fran Spielman | Posted 05.25.2011

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Thrown to the political wolves by the powerful Daley family, embattled Cook County Board President Todd Stroger now says he might not veto a surprise ...

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