GOP Floor Leader Batinick ready to ‘pass the baton’ – Capitol News IL

As a freshman lawmaker watching the budget impasse unfold, Batinick said he observed that “so much of Springfield was theater”; Rather than hold committee meetings and hearings regarding the budget, lawmakers were instead having debates over “silly little things,” such as how to label fish on food menus or whether to require repainting of school busses to a different color when they are sold used.