Politicians lie to get elected.
That’s hardly startling. And in a state like Illinois, with its long and sordid history of corruption, that observation is about as newsworthy as: “the pyramids are old and big.”
Still, one can’t help but be disappointed when politicians back away from their word.
A case in point is Gov. JB Pritzker, who ran for office on a platform of reforming the state’s redistricting process.
During the last gubernatorial election, Springfield reporter Rich Miller surveyed every candidate seeking their party’s respective nomination.
He asked each candidate if they would veto any redistricting measure not created by an independent commission.
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Just hours after the release of a scathing report on the state’s handling of a COVID-19 outbreak at an Illinois veterans’ home, Gov. J.B. Pritzker said Friday he wouldn’t have hired the former director of veterans’ affairs had he known she would “abdicate” her responsibilities.
That was essentially the description of former veterans’ affairs chief Linda Chapa LaVia’s handling of the coronavirus crisis in the report from the inspector general of the Illinois Department of Human Services at the LaSalle Veterans Home, where 36 veterans have died of COVID-19.
Several witnesses told the inspector general that LaVia was “not a hands-on or engaged day-to-day Director,” leaving the management of the agency and the veterans homes themselves to her chief of staff.
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