Illinois -- Pork helped grease state budget wheels

Pantagraph.com

SPRINGFIELD, Illinois -- Four years after assailing pork barrel spending, new records show Gov. Rod Blagojevich OK’d more than $70 million in pet projects and programs for Democratic lawmakers in the new state budget.

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- $350,000 to help Shawnee Health Services of Carterville provide health care to low-income residents and illegal aliens.

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Posted by Richard at June 21, 2006

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