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"Four years ago as a candidate, Gov. Blagojevich promised to change
the education system in Illinois for the better. He promised to
raise the foundation level by $1,000 per student. He broke that
promise. He promised to give more money to education. When you
consider elementary and secondary education, higher education, and
teacher pensions, education funding has actually gone down under Rod
Blagojevich. "Today, after admitting that after four years he has
been unable to keep his promise on education to
 Illinois voters,
Gov. Blagojevich is making a new round of promises to get elected
again.
"This time, Gov. Blagojevich is using the important issue of
education as a backdrop for the ultimate backroom deal to keep a
candidate out of the governor's race. If Gov. Blagojevich really
wanted to do something about education in this state, he would have
dealt with the issue before the General Assembly went home for the
summer.
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 "But in typical Gov. Blagojevich fashion, he prefers to hold a
press conference to unveil a billion-dollar education program
without any realistic plan to pay for it. And for those of us
watching, the governor seems to propose this plan only because the
entry of a third-party candidate would hurt his chances for
re-election. Our public schools and our children and grandchildren
who depend on them deserve better."
[Radio statement by Dan Cronin paid for by the
Illinois Republican Party]
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