The Gridlock of Public Policy Resulting from Polarization
This Friday, 11.11.11 at NOON
University YMCA . 1001 S. Wright St., Champaign
(corner of Wright and Chalmers, just west of the Quad)
Jim Edgar
was the 38th governor of Illinois. As governor, he made fiscal
discipline and children the cornerstones of his two terms. First
elected in 1990, Governor Edgar won
re-election in 1994 by the largest margin ever for a governor. His
popularity as governor prompted a Chicago Tribune columnist to write
near the end of his administration that Edgar's popularity in Illinois was "second only to Michael Jordan's."
Edgar
has served in a variety of leadership roles, including president of
the Council of State Governments, as a member of the executive
committee of the National Governors' Association and as chairman of
the Midwest Governors' Association. He has also been a Resident Fellow
at the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University.
Governor Edgar serves on a variety of civic and corporate boards of directors.
By the time he left office in January 1999, Governor Edgar
had eliminated the backlog in payments of the state's bills, given
the state a surplus and reduced the size of state government. He had
also fought for and won passage of historic legislation on the way
Illinois schools are funded and had overhauled the state's child
welfare system.
Before becoming governor, Edgar
served as secretary of state for 10 years and was elected to the
Illinois House from Charleston in 1976. He received a B.A. in history
from Eastern Illinois University in 1968.
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