CHICAGO (WBBM) – Gov. Rod Blagojevich is going around the state today, talking up his last minute freebie for senior citizens in the state’s new mass transit spending package.
WBBM’s Bernie Tafoya reports.
Governor Blagojevich was traveling the state to urge senior citizens who live in Peoria, Moline and Decatur to sign up early to receive free rides on public transportation.
In Chicago, after making a brief appearance at the 18th annual Rainbow/PUSH Coalition Dr. Martin Luther King Junior Scholarship Breakfast, the governor gave reporters the slip.
His aides said the governor couldn’t take questions about the free-ride program because of his planned fly-around to talk about the free- ride program.
Blagojevich did allude to the transit bailout package in his three minute remarks at the breakfast.
“There were some dark clouds hovering over the CTA but those dark clouds have rolled away and now the sun is going to shine and you can get on the Blue Line and the Brown Line and the Red Line and everything will be just fine,” he said.
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