Illinois Democrats defend hastily enacted election year changes – Center Square

State Rep. Maurice West, chair of the House Ethics and Elections Committee, said that was just a matter of scheduling and there was nothing untoward about how the measure passed by gutting and replacing a bill about child welfare. “Get their petitions like everyone else and run in the primary and/or try their hardest to … be a write-in candidate, there’s nothing more accessible than that to me,” he said.