women voters of illinois and the illinois broadcasters association. joining me in questioning the charleses are abc7 s thomas, rebecca sanchez, and andy shaw. each candidate will have an opening statement of one minute. we begin with mr. brady. my wife nancy and i built a small business. i am running for government for governor because of i am concerned about my children and yours. for the last eight years of deficit spending, corruption, and back-room deals our government is broke. governor klan has lost over 200,000 jobs governor quinn has lost over 200,000 jobs. i want to cut spending and taxes and create private-sector jobs. my opponent s plan is to raise your taxes and create bigger government. governor, you used to jfk saying cutting taxes help hard- working families. what happened? illinois and these a leader. pat quinn has proven he is not up to the job. as your next governor, i will put the people bought the interest in front of the insider s address. tha
rates and lower those rates. people will have confidence in our ability to do that as well. we re going to get off the backs of small businesses. we charge all businesses the exact same amount as big businesses. we need a different system. those businesses that are most likely to grow over the next few years, we need them to understand they have a partner in the governor s office. we re going to reorganize government. we have three separate agencies that work on economic development. the we could not do any worse. under of malloy administration with the unified approach to job creation. policiesbeen pursuing for 25 years and connecticut that made connecticut almost toxic. we need to change directions. we are considered one of the most unfriendly business states and the nation. we have a legislature. mandates on businesses. we have an unresponsive state government. i can change that. they will have the confidence and know that we will have a governor who is listening to what t
paul: you mentioned the trifecta some are calling it the killer trifecta, stimulus vote, health care and cap and trade. are those the big three republicans are using? those are the big three and they get to the heart of the anger among conservative democratic vote believed the blue dogs when they said they wanted fiscal responsibility that seems to blow a hole in it. paul: what is boyd doing to fight back? he s trying to localize the race. he likes to talk about the things he s been bringing to the district, education, veterans benefits. that s not what this race is about. his problem are people who want to get him out of office because they are angry with him. this is about boyd and anger at him. paul: pork is the main defense but not as good as a defense as it often is in elections? no. his best defense would have been to say i voted against some of these obama
to polls come november. here with reports from the field, kim strassel. matt kaminski and editor james toronto. kim you have been in florida, the panhandle as well as in virginia looking at blue dog democrats the so-called moderate or conservatives what are you finding? i was in the district where allen boyd is running for rae elect. i was in dixie county which is full of conservative democrats. guys who voted for mr. boyd because he s a blue dog but tend to vote for republicans at the federal level. these guys are furious. mr. boyd voted for health care, stimulus, cap and trade. could you not find a boyd sign anywhere you looked. this is the county that gave him 67% of the vote last time he ran.
paul: welcome to the journal editorial report, i m paul gigot. the school reform movement suffered a setback this week when its most visible and perhaps most controversial champion resigned. michelle rhee served for the d.c. school chancellor for 3 1/2 years. test scores improved and drop-out rates declined. she closed failing schools, supported vouchers for low income families and opened charter schools. she negotiated a contract with the teachers aunt beyond that includes merit pay and has become a model for urban school districts across the country. michelle rhee joins me from washington, welcome. thank you. paul: you said for reform to continue the reformer had to leave. with respect, that seems contradictory. why did you feel you had to go? well, the new presumptive mayor elect in washington, d.c., vincent grey and i decided the best thing to do for the city would be for me to step aside, because we really want to make sure the entire city now can embrace the ref