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When Illinois Supreme Court Justice Thomas Kilbride first ran for a seat on the high court in 2000, the state Democrat Party (owned and operated by House Speaker-for-Life Mike Madigan) contributed nearly $700,000 to his campaign.For Kilbride’s first retention campaign in 2010, the manna from Mike nearly doubled, and it was a good investment for the Madigan mob.
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Illinois is now being inundated with ads, social media and op-eds urging a "yes" vote for the Fair Tax by making the following claim over and over again:
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Republican candidates for state representative in the Metro East are stepping up pressure on their Democrat opponents to let voters know whether they'd support the embattled Speaker of the House for another term.
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Delinquent mortgages nearly doubled to 124,000 amid COVID-19’s soaring unemployment, and inaction by state and local governments.
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Illinois’ pension crisis has been a growing problem for decades, and its negative effects on state residents are well documented.1 Economic fallout from the COVID-19 pandemic and related government shutdown orders threaten to bring that long-running crisis closer to its breaking point.
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I think the Governor should exclude the total number of positive COVID cases reported in state facilities and prisons when factoring his enhanced restrictions towards the region. For example, inmates with COVID are not leaving prison.
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Illinois Gov. J.B. Pritzker is again turning to criminal penalties to gain compliance with his coronavirus mandates. He is targeting small business owners for mask violations.
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The Illinois Supreme Court has slapped a hold on an order from a southern Illinois judge, which would have required Gov. JB Pritzker to come to court to argue why he shouldn't be held in contempt for continuing to issue COVID-related orders after that judge ruled he could not.
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Younger Americans unfamiliar with Watergate are not likely to know that Republican leaders in Washington had a “little talk” with President Richard Nixon when it became apparent that impeachment unavoidable.Democrat leaders in Illinois need to have a talk like that with House Speaker and State Democrat Party Chairman Michael Madigan.
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Clay County Judge Michael McHaney, the only judge to date to rule against Gov. JB Pritzker's continued use of COVID-19-related emergency powers, has ordered the governor to appear in court on Aug. 14 on a contempt petition from State Rep. Darren Bailey
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An appeals court in Springfield said the lawsuit raises constitutional questions that are the courts' job to interpret and decide.
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If there’s no honor among thieves, what keeps them from ratting each other out?
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Southern Illinois state lawmaker Darren Bailey, R-Xenia, has petitioned a judge in Clay County to hold Gov. JB Pritzker in indirect civil contempt for continuing to issue COVID-19-related emergency orders even after the judge ruled Pritzker couldn't do so.
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The level of corruption outlined by the FBI is just the beginning of our understanding of how Mike Madigan’s operation really works. Unfortunately as the days and weeks unfold, we’ll learn that the corruption problem in Illinois has tentacles that reach deep into the corporate and political institutions in our state.
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Northern Illinois' largest electrical utility was hit with two class action lawsuits, demanding it repay its customers perhaps hundreds of millions of dollars for allegedly using a bribery scheme to curry favor with Illinois House Speaker Michael Madigan to pass laws that allowed it to rack up hundreds of millions of dollars, or more, in profit, since at least 2011.
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House Speaker Mike Madigan’s iron grip on Illinois could be nearing an end.
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Attorney Tom DeVore, who has led many legal challenges against Gov. JB Pritzker's use of emergency powers in response to COVID-19, has filed several more asserting the COVID pandemic doesn't qualify as a "public health emergency" under state law.
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CHICAGO – House Speaker Michael Madigan pitched a $2.35 billion bailout of Commonwealth Edison’s nuclear power plants as a green energy bill, but ComEd’s bribery confession shows green currency may have meant more to him.
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Federal prosecutors said Madigan, through his associates, demanded "old fashioned patronage" for his associates and allies in exchange for supporting legislation that steered hundreds of millions of dollars from electrical customers to ComEd.
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The progressive tax amendment on the ballot Nov. 3 removes the constitutional prohibition on multiple taxation, in addition to removing the flat tax protection.
