Margaret Houlihan Smith in October added ComEd to her lobbying clients, and listed dozens of city departments she might lobby on the utility’s behalf, including the mayor’s office, according to city records.
The arrangement has raised questions about the kind of information Houlihan Smith might be privy to and the kind of access she could promise. But the mayor’s office said it saw no issues with her security chief, James Smith, being married to a lobbyist for ComEd.
A largely unasked question is becoming glaring: Is Illinois doing all it should to use artificial intelligence to make government cost less and work better? So far, the evidence says no.
I’m starting to get the feeling that I’m the only chump in Illinois who hasn’t been getting paid by ComEd somehow.
ComEd has more secret agents in IL government than the CIA.