The hard-to-believe behavior of Illinois Senate Democrats last week reveals two facts that advocates of medical liability reform -- indeed any kind of civil justice reform -- need to come to grips with.
Alton mayoral candidate Mick McCahill in front of an Abraham Lincoln mural painted on his dining room wall. McCahill, a Lincoln "buff," commissioned a friend to do the work. Growing up as a Democrat in the gritty, river town of Alton, Mick McCahill's Irish Catholic family didn't just talk politics at the dinner table. They pounded the pavement for their candidates.
Personal injury attorney Rex Carr of East St. Louis, renowned champion of victims, is Gordon E. Maag's choice of counsel in a lawsuit which centers around a negative campaign flyer.