Advocates say Mike Madigan’s indictment should be a call for reform of state government. 'We’ve just seen this grim litany of investigations, indictments, convictions, plea deals from a wide range of local and state officials”
As former Illinois House Speaker Michael Madigan Wednesday pleaded not guilty to 22 counts of corruption, it was largely business as usual in the Illinois statehouse where until last year, Madigan reigned over the House for all but two years since 1983.View all sponsors“Certainly he’s not the only person in Illinois to get indicted for public corruption even in the last you know few months.
That allows them to exercise a level of control over other lawmakers that she said is “unusual and dangerous.” In their indictment, prosecutors accuse Madigan of running a full-on enterprise that involved using his public office to help steer business to his private company, Madigan & Getzendanner, a law firm that handles property tax appeals.
“There’s nothing that undermines public confidence in their democracy than thinking that their representatives care more about their own personal bank accounts than they do about the public,” she said. “I have found it very useful to be able to focus exclusively on my work as Senate president and I think there may be some value in considering it for the legislative leaders,” Harmon said. “But I think there’s a real benefit of having a citizen legislature, where people come to the General Assembly with day-to-day experiences as undertakers or farmers or teachers or social workers.”
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