Brady Begins Anew in Illinois

I went down to the train station to say congratulations and shake Bill Brady's hand but I forgot to take pictures. Well, I was waving a sign around. Brady for Illinois. Here's a pix from the Sun Times with their story from earlier in the day. Tribune here. The Trib refers to Dem Gov. Quinn as liberal, which is apt I think:

...a liberal governor from the city who inherited the job after his former ally, Gov. Rod Blagojevich, was arrested and ousted.

Brady accused Quinn of wanting to raise taxes to maintain the "status quo."

"Gov. Quinn is dead wrong on this issue," said Brady, who said an increased income tax would hurt the ability of Illinois businesses to create jobs.

Quinn calls Sen. Brady extreme (getting liberal talking points from a liberal), which is pretty shrill for this early in the campaign, the act of a desperate man. Let's take another issue raised by Quinn and noted by the liberal Huffpo, this a fiscal one, the minimum wage. How's that working out? Via Steve Bartin, WSJ: The Lost Wages of Youth. Raising the minimum wage has put teens out of work:

...an act of almost willful economic stupidity.

Sen. Brady understands that. He works in the private sector as well as serving in the Illinois legislature. (Illinois higher and more destructive minimum here.) Bill Brady knows what it will take to jumpstart job creation in Illinois and get our economy moving again, without raising taxes. Now there's mainstream appeal, common sense solutions.