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House Speaker Michael Madigan: Credit Downgrade Caused by Governor Rauner’s Desire to Cause Crisis

SPRINGFIELD, Ill. –(ENEWSPF)–June 9, 2016.   House Speaker Michael J. Madigan issued the following statement after Moody’s Investors Service downgraded Illinois’ credit rating Wednesday:

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“Governor Rauner has created the crisis he so publicly sought. The crisis he wanted when, shortly after taking office, he said ‘Crisis creates opportunity. Crisis creates leverage … and we’ve got to use that leverage of the crisis…’

“It’s an outrage that we have gone nearly a year without a state…

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