Posted on 01/29/2019 4:43:18 AM PST by usconservative
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The FBI secretly recorded Illinois House Speaker Michael Madigan trying to get business for his private law firm from a developer brought to him by Ald. Danny Solis, who was weighing the developers request to build a hotel in Chinatown, according to a federal court affidavit obtained by the Chicago Sun-Times.
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Madigan,Burke, and hundreds of Illinois democrats all owe their longevity back to 1980. When under the guise of reform the Illinois state constitutional convention removed the minority party state representative district seat from each district in the state assembly.
Madigan is untouchable, nothing will come of this.
The Cutback Amendment.
All the money to be saved by dumping the cumulative voting system.
And the usual SOBs gave themselves a raise that ate any and all savings...
With cumulative voting, we had an entertaining day at the polls and a nonstop clown show from Springfield.
Now, no more bullet ballot and fewer clowns that cost more.
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