Illinois Republicans can’t decry redistricting process and then vote to cement union power in constitution – Wirepoints on Chicago’s Morning Answer

Illinois Republicans can’t decry the redistricting process and then vote to cement union power in the state constitution. Wirepoints President Ted Dabrowski joins Dan Proft and Amy Jacobson on Chicago’s Morning Answer to discuss.

 

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con
2 years ago

McCombie is the bad apple who voted “Yes”.

con
2 years ago

Can we do a correction from the show. Dan Proft stated that Mazzochi voted Present on the workers rights amendment but the tally clearly shows an “N”. Am I wrong?

Old Spartan
2 years ago

Most people don’t realize that as the public unions have gotten more entrenched, in many districts the Republican office holders have a hard time standing up to them. In many suburbs and small towns the teachers unions can’t be ignored. Getting a prison in your district sounds like a great way to create jobs, but that means bringing in a lot of union employees and influence. Running I-355 through DuPage county sounded like a good idea at the time, but now you have thousands of union votes in DuPage from all the unionized Toll Way employees. The unintended consequence is… Read more »

SherlockHomeless
2 years ago

Illinois politicians will always go out of their way to diappoint Illinois taxpayers.

Linda
2 years ago

They’re all hypocrites! Only after the money and what benefits them personally never about their constituents and people of Illinois.

Fed up neighbor
2 years ago
Reply to  Linda

Unfortunately it was and never will be about us until someday hopefully we take are heads out of are you know what and stick up for ourselves

NB-Chicago
2 years ago

Not exactly the same, but meanwhile our thriving/ zero debt neighbor to east– Indiana is going the complete opposite direction. https://thehill.com/opinion/finance/554295-indiana-protects-first-amendment-rights-of-public-employees-other-states

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