Adam Hoge
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There's a food and beverage tax that'll go in in Lake County, Indiana, as well as a 5% innkeeper's tax.
I mean, all of this stuff was laid out in a way that I could easily take notes right here in this notebook.
and relay it to you guys.
And like, that's just not what's happening in Illinois when these, like they might be having these discussions, I'm sure, but none of it, it just, it just continues to stall.
And I think even in the last 24 hours, and this is something I wanted to bring up with you guys, like it's very convenient of Matt Hill, the spokesperson for the governor's office today to come out and be like, Illinois was ready to move this bill forward, which he put
in a tweet, and he said this morning, we were surprised to see a statement lauding Indiana and ignoring Illinois.
Well, my understanding is the team gave the governor's office a heads up last night that this was happening this morning with Indiana.
So there's continues to be political posturing.
The governor spoke yesterday publicly.
He was asked directly that question, if Illinois was ready to move the bill forward, and he didn't say that.
He just said progress was being made, and he referenced somebody else's report in saying that that was pretty much accurate, that progress was being made.
It could have come out yesterday and said, yes, we're ready to make this happen.
Let's get it done, and that might have changed things.
the tune in all this.
The reality is the bill that was going to be discussed this morning in this meeting in Illinois that got canceled, it even has a sponsor on it from Arlington Heights that's not even part of the discussions from my understanding.
So the point I'm getting at here is everything on the Illinois side is messy.
It's not clear.
You watch the stream of what happened in Indiana this morning and
And it's very clear and everybody's on the same page and it passes 24 nothing.
They're literally cracking jokes about how efficient Northwest Indiana is in all this compared to Indianapolis downstate.