Calls for "Free College" for everyone

From Eric Dondero:

The Green Party and Libertarian Party candidates for Governor of Illinois took to the stage in Chicago the other night in a debate sponsored by a third party advocacy group. Third Parties often see themselves as united against the major parties, at least in spirit. However, unity was not in the air.

According to the Chicago Sun-Times - "most of the candidates called for cutting taxes and spending."

Not the Green Party, though. Rich Whitney, a far-left college professor who won 8% of the vote in 2008, launched verbal assaults against the free market agendas of both the Libertarian Party and the Constitution Party.

Free Money proves more popular with college students than austerity

From the Sun-Times:

But Green Party candidate Rich Whitney... called for $3 billion more spending to pay for free college for all Illinois students...

Whitney's plan was more popular with students here than the ideas of Libertarian Party candidate Lex Green and Constitution Party candidate Michael White, who backed easier access to loans for students instead of scholarships.

Libertarian Lex Green then chimed in:

Green said by cutting spending on health and education back to 2008 levels, "We really aren't doing anything Draconian."

Whitney vehemently disagreed.

"I don't think we can possibly agree that it's not Draconian to make further cuts in health and education," Whitney said. "We cannot possibly continue this way: teachers getting pink slips, class sizes getting higher. This is Draconian."

Note - in the 2008 election, Green Party activists routinely blocked Libertarian Party petitioners from gaining signatures in states such as Ohio, New Hampshire and Connecticut.