Before State Senator Mike Frerichs is sworn in as Illinois' treasurer next month, he's got a few more votes to cast as a legislator. But Frerichs doesn't think one of them will be for extending the 2011 temporary income tax increase.
He says Republican Governor-elect Bruce Rauner will have to cope with a hole in the state's budget without the action of the General Assembly:
"The people chose a new governor and he's going to have an opportunity to come in and look at the budget and propose his own budget.
Frerichs and many Democratic colleagues in the General Assembly have lobbied for the past year to extend the 5-percent income tax rate. But legislative leaders backed off of that promise after incumbent Democrat Pat Quinn lost the governor's race.
