AFL-CIO supports Madigan for another term as speaker – Center Square

Many others in office are still against him. Said state Rep. Mike Marron, R-Fithian, “I fail to understand how a man who has been a state rep for 50 years can be in touch with the priorities of the modern-day Democratic Party. In fact, in recent years there have been some pretty high profile examples of things that have happened in the speaker's office that suggest he’s radically out of step with the priorities of my Democratic colleagues.”