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By Benjamin Cox on June 30, 2021 at 7:41pm
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Route 125 at Horse Barn Road, just east of Pleasant Plains in Sangamon County is closed at this hour due to water over the roadway. ISP District 9 is urging motorists to use an alternate route.
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State Sen. Doris Turner, D-Springfield, took to social media Wednesday to address the failure of her bill to add elected officials to Capital Township in a post referencing slavery and calling out Rep. Tim Butler, R-Springfield. SB826 - I hear Rep. Butler s words - We don t need this because Sangamon Co. administers Township funds very efficiently. Slave masters- It’s ok slaves are 3/5 of a person; our plantations are running very efficiently. Plantation mentality doesn t work for any of us in 2021, Turner wrote in a tweet and post on her personal Facebook page.
Turner did not respond to multiple requests for comment. She has not responded to several questions from The State Journal-Register over the last several weeks about the bill, her new legislative district proposal, not voting on a sex education bill and a no vote on the state budget in a break with her Democratic colleagues.
She has no business serving in the ILGA. It’s Butler’s fault he was able to kill a bill in the super minority?
Yikes.
“with many Democrats voting present on the bill.”
I don’t blame them…after reading this article, this is an issue I wouldn’t want to be anywhere near.
If I had feelings I would be embarrassed for her. Her and Sue should do us all a favor and not run again.
Democrats mad…
When trying to go viral and become a social media star fails.
I feel bad for Springfield and Sangamon County. Any legislation to help improve the capital city will be undercut by politics and toxic relationship between these legislators.
By WMAY Newsroom
Photo Credit: Kevin Hart / WMAY News
State Senator Doris Turner is offering some strong words about the failure of her bill to allow Capital Township residents alone to vote on township leadership.
Currently the township supervisor and assessor posts are held by the Sangamon County Treasurer and Clerk… officials who are elected countywide, not just by township residents. Turner says that means township residents don’t have true representation… and in a tweet, she compares that to pre-Civil War policies that counted slaves as three-fifths of a person. Turner says in the tweet, “Plantation mentality doesn’t work for any of us in 2021.”