Leftist? The REPUBLICAN POLITICIAn are the ones who are LEFTISTS in Illinois...For Example our new GOP Minority Leader, just got bought............
SEIU invests in Illinois House Republican Minority Leader Jim Durkin
http://illinoisreview.typepad.com/illinoisreview/2013/11/seiu-invests-in-illinois-house-minority-leader-jim-durkin.html
There are plenty of leftists with an R behind their name.
I had always hoped to live long enough to watch the rats stew in the total defeat of their ideas. I now realize they have inoculated themselves from consequences through government just as Freddie/Fannie did for the mortgage market.
The few benefit from the profits and the masses pay for it all.