MikeMadigan doesn’t get it on harassment
Is there ever going to be a time in Illinois when our politicians make decisions based on the interests of their constituents and not their own political survival?
In the latest brouhaha involving Speaker MikeMadigan, we now have Sen. Dick Durbin weighing in. In response to more allegations from the # MeToo movement that are threatening to end the speaker’s reign, he admits that he advised Madigan to make a “. . . considerable move to show that he gets it.” A lifetime member of [ the Legislature] shouldn’t have to be told to show that he “gets it.” You either get it, or you don’t. Or you get your powerful friends to jump to your side to spin the mess into conning the rest of us into buying the notion that he “gets it.”
Here’s what I get. Men in power will do anything to stay that way. Poll after poll shows the people of Illinois don’t want to be ruled by the King anymore. Sadly, only a mere handful of voters get to decide if Madigan returns to Springfield, where a bevy of loyal lapdogs ensure he is returned to the highest post.