Here's what's happening in Springfield today -- SEIU and ACORN people bussed in from Chicago everywhere demanding higher taxes. You know,k the people who make a living off the taxes we pay -- they demand MORE. You can be sure there are no Taxed Enough Already TEA partiers in Springfield ... (Tribune photo)
A spokesman for Illinois Secretary of State Jesse White estimated the rally crowd at 15,000, with more than 12,000 marching around the building. That would appear to make it the largest Capitol protest since the Equal Rights Amendment crowds a quarter-century ago.
Bus after bus pulled up on streets surrounding the Capitol complex and dumped sign-waving protesters clad in purple, green, red and blue shirts that represented a show of strength from a variety of public employee unions and dozens of groups that formed what they named the “Responsible Budget Coalition.”
"Raise my taxes! Raise my taxes! Raise my taxes!" they chanted, lined up shoulder to shoulder for a few hundred yards stretching a street in front of the Capitol.
