"Governor Rauner needs to honor the commitment he made on April 14th to veto HB 40," McSweeney told Illinois Review Wednesday. "It's important that he keep his word."
McSweeney said taxpayers are already reeling from the legislature raising Illinois' state income tax by 32%. "It would be even worse if that tax hike goes toward paying for abortions many find offensive," he said.
The problem is that Governor Rauner has made commitments to both sides on what he would do with legislation that called for taxpayer funding of abortion. On a questionnaire in 2014, he told the abortion group Personal PAC he'd favor taxpayer funding for abortions while he told Republican lawmakers he would veto such a measure because it was "too divisive."
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