Women’s Caucus candidates reflect on speaker race – Capitol News IL

The Women’s Caucus nearly unanimously stood behind Welch despite the 11^th hour reports of old allegations of his mistreatment of women, with only one woman voting present on the nomination.  “Speaker Welch addressed the allegations and addressed them to several of us in private as well,” Rep. Stephanie Kifowit said. “I respect Rep. (Kelly) Cassidy for calling for that inquiry and I will look to see what that entails as well. So, I’ll just let that run its course.”