Posted on 01/18/2021 2:05:28 PM PST by PBRCat
I’m certainly hoping that newly elected Illinois House Speaker Chris Welch has the leadership skills, the wisdom, the guts and the character to help yank the state back from the economic abyss and promote legislation that will improve our quality of life.
Does he?
“A 2002 police report indicates that officers in west suburban Hillside were called to Welch’s home, where an ex-girlfriend told them that Welch slammed her head into a kitchen countertop numerous times after she called him ‘a loser.’ The woman did not press charges after talking it over with a relative of Welch’s.”
“Welch also faced a 2010 federal lawsuit for sexual harassment and retaliation in which a different woman alleged she lost her job at Proviso Township High School District because she broke up with him while he was president of the school board. Records show settlement talks had started in the wrongful termination case when a motion was filed to dismiss the matter. In addition, the woman won a short-lived restraining order against Welch.”
The story quoted Welch: “People mature, they look back and would do things differently, handle situations differently.”
September 2018: a considerably less forgiving Welch tweeted that Republicans should “do the right thing and withdraw (Brett) Kavanaugh’s nomination to the Supreme Court” over allegations that he’d groped a young woman when he was in high school more than 35 years earlier. The testimony of Kavanaugh’s accuser was “credible and riveting!!!” Welch wrote.
For a state party that has struggled with several #MeToo scandals in recent years to expeditiously promote to the speaker’s chair a man carrying this kind of baggage is stunningly tone-deaf if not downright hypocritical.
(Excerpt) Read more at chicagotribune.com ...
If this is coming from Eric Zorn, As liberal whiny propagandist as they come- And he is blowing through race defense- Media and Dem partners admit it is a colossal oopsie
Welch is a Madigan-bot. He will do as he’s told by the combine.
In a just world Zorn would have been run out of town on a rail covered in tar and feathers ten years ago.
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Does anybody even read or pay attention to the “newspaper”?
“Welch is a Madigan-bot. He will do as he’s told by the combine.”
Yup. He is rabidly anti-gun and hasn’t heard of an abortion he did not like. In other words, same old, same old for Illinois Dem leaders.
Out of the whole lot of them, who would you suggest as speaker since baby killer is in all of their resumes.
I read John Kass’s column.
If this is coming from Eric Zorn...
Yes, BUT!!!
Welch has lots of melanin and will do as instructed.
I walk my dog around a 3 mile loop in the neighborhood and it’s interesting to see how few homes get the “newspaper” these days. They are delivered in bright blue plastic bags so easy to see in the driveways.
Whoa, I’ve not followed this case closely enough.
So, in other words, Welch is the Dem most responsible for pushing Madigan out, so he, Welch, assumes the Speakership, despite his own history of violence.
Classic, absolutely classic.
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