{"id":1294,"date":"2013-05-21T13:17:51","date_gmt":"2013-05-21T18:17:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.brandylion.com\/?p=1294"},"modified":"2013-05-21T13:17:51","modified_gmt":"2013-05-21T18:17:51","slug":"illinois-business-ken-griffin-calls-illinois-tax-incentives-a-form-of-cronyism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.brandylion.com\/?p=1294","title":{"rendered":"Illinois business: Ken Griffin calls Illinois tax incentives a form of cronyism"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>&#8220;The last election cycle I called a local CEO to talk to him about supporting a pro-business candidate \u2026 ,&#8221; Griffin, a billionaire and Republican hedge fund manager, told the Economic Club of Chicago. &#8220;And I asked straightforward and simple, and he said, \u2018No. No. I\u2019m not going write a check. You see, if Illinois is not hospitable to my business. We\u2019re just going to move.\u2019<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;And then I learned what the word \u2018hospitable\u2019 meant. For a few weeks later, it was announced that his company received tens of millions of dollars in tax incentives. His silence was bought and paid for,&#8221; Griffin said.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.chicagotribune.com\/business\/breaking\/chi-illinois-business-ken-griffin-calls-illinois-tax-incentives-a-form-of-cronyism-20130521,0,3900314.story\">Illinois business: Ken Griffin calls Illinois tax incentives a form of cronyism &#8211; chicagotribune.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;The last election cycle I called a local CEO to talk to him about supporting a pro-business candidate \u2026 ,&#8221; Griffin, a billionaire and Republican hedge fund manager, told the Economic Club of Chicago. &#8220;And I asked straightforward and simple, &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.brandylion.com\/?p=1294\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[135],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1294","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-editorial"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brandylion.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1294","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brandylion.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brandylion.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brandylion.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brandylion.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1294"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.brandylion.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1294\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1296,"href":"http:\/\/www.brandylion.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1294\/revisions\/1296"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brandylion.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1294"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brandylion.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1294"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brandylion.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1294"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}