John Kass: Another problem for Boss Madigan — Bob Rita – Chicago Tribune

State Rep. Bob Rita, a top ally of Speaker Michael Madigan in the Illinois House, who’s from a Blue Island family that has controlled Democratic politics there for decades, as if Blue Island were a family business, has trouble in his past.

Years ago, Rita was accused of beating a former girlfriend. He was acquitted in a criminal trial, but a judge at least temporarily granted a request by prosecutors to extend a protection order against Rita.

 

You’d think the old allegations would compel women’s groups, #MeToo activists and others

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Rauner’s attack ads further undermine his credibility in General Assembly – Quicktake

Why, sometimes I’ve believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast. ― Alice in Wonderland Governor Rauner, your own party’s legislators already think you’re dishonest and every one of their votes is critical to you, yet this is your strategy? Rauner’s new ads paint his primary opponent, Rep. Jeanne Ives, as “Mike Madigan’s favorite candidate,” an opponent of property tax freezes and a supporter of higher taxes. That’s so preposterous that seven of Rauner’s fellow Republicans, each a member of the General Assembly, issued a press release yesterday calling on Rauner to halt what they called his shameful distortions

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